Standard Notes Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience63.9% of reviews
Neutral10.4% of reviews
Negative experience25.8% of reviews

~ Based on 598 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Standard Notes

Is Standard Notes Safe?

Standard Notes appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Standard Notes is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 3,778 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,751 App Store ratings for Standard Notes.

Is Standard Notes Legit?

Standard Notes appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Standard Notes is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Good app

Great.. I can do short notes and edit easily

Don’t write important things here!

I’ve been using the app for a couple of years now, the disappointment comes when I have written meeting notes and when synced, they are gone, neither in my Mac or iPad, completely gone. Also, when I text in two languages, all the Spanish stuff gets randomly deleted, it doesn’t even let me type with accents. Very annoying.
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Trash

Doesn’t work for my ios @ all immediately crashes always

Never loads on iOS

I have wanted to use this app for years and even paid for a subscription but I can’t see anything but a blank black screen when it opens on iPhone 15 Pro even on the latest iOS 27.

The solution for all

I’ve long been looking for a solution to help me sync all my notes across my devices with different OS, although I’ve found many solutions that worked very well like obsidian, the struggle had always been depending on third party cloud to sync your notes which sometimes caused vault corruption for me due to errors on cloud services being used (important to point that obsidian sync subscription can help solve this), but find an all in one service that is hustle free and has privacy and security (end-to-end encryption specially) to make sure the companies don’t have access to my data is what many other companies lacked. To add, standard note belongs to a company (proton) widely recognized for caring about user data and have few to no record of collecting unnecessary telemetry, so in my opinion this is the best solution I’ve found to my long lasting problem. Thank you standard note and proton team ❤️
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安心ノート

同期が速いしセキュリティも安心。
欲を言えばフリー版でも画像挿入やテキストスキャンなど、iPhone純正メモ同等の機能があれば。

Awesome secure note app!

Soon I am going to get a phone that works with GrapheneOS and I’m totally using this amazing app.

An sich OK

Die App ist von der Idee her super. Besonders die Suche und die Formatierung ist Grotten schlecht.

I liked StandardNotes

Did everything I needed it to do, but support seems to have gone downhill since Proton bought them up. Can’t get them to respond to an account issue that is making templates read-only.

Rock Solid Privacy

I’ve been using Standard Notes for a while now, mainly for quick capture and longer-form notes I don’t want floating around unencrypted. The end-to-end encryption is the headline feature and it genuinely delivers. For day-to-day notes it’s fast and frictionless with apps for all ecosystems. Self hosting is the other big drawer. Being able to run your own server and own your data is rare in a world of where digitally sovereignty is being ebbed away.

My only gripe is that it sits out of the Proton ecosystem.

Judged on its own merits, Standard Notes is one of the most Trustworthy note-taking apps available.
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Die beste und sicherste Notizapp

Open source, Ende-zu-Ende-verschlüsselt und on-device-verschlüsselt sowie auditiert. Dazu noch einfach zu bedienen, in offenen Formaten auf Langlebigkeit ausgerichtet und mit Proton einen starken Eigentümer. Besser geht es nicht.

Slow in lockdown mode

Takes a looong time to load on start. More than 10 seconds on wifi. Turning off lockdown mode helped, but that's a security risk.

Import

Nie jestem w stanie zaimportować notatek z Google keep, pobranych przy użyciu Google takeout, do waszej aplikacji, poza tym jest ok

pretty good

I’ve been using this for years and there are definitely positives. But… I wish so much for keyboard shortcuts to move between notes and lists and tags. (I’m on OSX and iPhone using either the standalone app or web app in Safari, depending on which one is working at the moment).

Positives: semi-securely syncs across devices, ability to tag and organize, robust default note types, but support for independent modules, searchable notes (but not available _inside_ some independent note types. I’m looking at you Markdown Alternative)

Issues: security (some temporary files can be found in ~/Library/Containers/com.standardnotes.standardnotes/Data are plain text notes!), feature bloat (the unfortunate cost of success), non-adjustable tiny font size (specifically OSX standalone), and inability to export a proper markdown file from their officially supported note type.

Overall still worthwhile, but cleaner apps are starting to flood the stage… which is frustrating since I just want to keep using StandardNotes.
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Buggy

Paid for 5 years, app is buggy on iOS. Unable to use “Super Note” from phone as curser gets stuck first position it is placed (web is ok for this). Only plain text notes can be used Reported bug over 2 months ago, support responded but no updates since then and no follow ups.

No undo?!?!?

It’s absolutely bonkers that this app doesn’t have an undo button. I just accidentally deleted a bunch of text from a note, and there’s no way to undo that. I’ll be switching to an app with that basic feature!

Widget

Gem in the crown would be widget support

Pas de sync en Lockdown

Excellente app de prise de notes dont le point fort est le chiffrage de bout en bout et le respect des données de l’utilisateur. Ce qui rend incompréhensible le fait que l’application Desk est incapable de se synchroniser avec notre compte lorsque nous utilisons notre Mac et iPhone en Lockdown Mode (mode isolement). Contradictoire pour une application qui se veut une solution respectueuse de la vie privée. Une fois que ce problème sera corrigé (et il ne semble pas que ce sera le cas demain selon leur support), je mettrai 5 étoiles.
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Can you share and co-edit in it?

I don’t know if you can. I wish it had it. And if it has it, I wish the user interface was more intuitive to where I could find it easily.

Standard Notes app

Great end to end encrypted notes great way to keep your notes and to see the time and date when you have a note for future references.