Standard Notes vs FlockDesk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Standard Notes
Securely capture and sync your thoughts across all devices with end-to-end encryption. This app offers a simple, lasting place for all your notes, from personal thoughts to sensitive information, with robust privacy features.
- End-to-end encryption
- Cross-device syncing
- Offline access
- Passcode and biometric lock
- Tagging system
- Open-source code
- Optional productivity editors and themes
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Standard Notes is a private and secure end-to-end encrypted notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, including your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browser. Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes. Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work. Our focus is making it easy to write notes wherever you are and syncing them with encryption to all your devices. Our users love us for: • Personal Notes • Tasks & Todos • Passwords & Keys • Code & Technical Procedures • Private Journal • Meeting Notes • Cross-platform Scratchpad • Books, Recipes, & Movies • Health & Fitness Log Standard Notes comes free with: • Seamless sync across all your devices, with easy to use applications on iPhone, iPad, Mac, web browsers, and other platforms. • Offline access, so you can access your downloaded notes even without a connection. • No limit on number of devices. • No limit on number of notes. • Passcode lock protection, along with Touch ID and Face ID protection. • A tagging system to organize your notes (like #work, #ideas, #passwords, #crypto). • The ability to pin, lock, protect, and move notes to trash, which allows you to recover deleted notes until the trash is emptied. Standard Notes is completely open-source, which means when we say your notes are encrypted with industry-leading XChaCha-20 encryption, and that only you can read your notes, you don't have to take our word for it. Our code is open to the world to audit. We made Standard Notes simple because longevity is important to us. We want to make sure we're here, protecting your notes, for the next hundred years. You shouldn't have to find a new notes app every year. To sustain our development, we offer optional paid subscriptions which give you access to powerful tools like: • Productivity editors (like Markdown, Code, Spreadsheets) • Beautiful themes (like Midnight, Focus, Solarized Dark) • Powerful cloud tools including daily backups of your encrypted data delivered to your email inbox every day, or backed up to your cloud provider (like Dropbox and Google Drive). We're always happy to talk, whether it be a question, thought, or issue. Please feel free to email us any time at help@standardnotes.com. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
FlockDesk
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As your business grows, customer support can quickly become harder to manage. Emails, support tickets, follow-ups, and team assignments can easily get scattered, making it difficult to keep track of every customer request. FlockDesk brings customer support into one organized workspace. Manage tickets, emails, conversations, and support workflows in one place, so your team can stay organized and respond to customers more efficiently. MANAGE CUSTOMER SUPPORT WITH EASE Keep every support request organized with a centralized ticketing system. Create, assign, track, and manage tickets while keeping customer conversations and history connected. TURN CUSTOMER EMAILS INTO TICKETS Connect email support with your ticketing workflow. Turn incoming customer emails into support tickets and keep the full conversation context available to your team. AUTOMATE YOUR SUPPORT WORKFLOW Reduce repetitive work with workflow automation. Automate ticket assignments, routing, notifications, and other support tasks using triggers, saved responses, and macros. KEEP YOUR TEAM CONNECTED Give your support team a shared workspace to manage customer requests. Assign tickets, add internal notes, manage team access, and collaborate without losing important customer context. TRACK YOUR SUPPORT PERFORMANCE Get better visibility into your customer service operations with insights into response times, resolution times, ticket volume, backlog, SLA performance, agent workload, and customer satisfaction. BUILT FOR GROWING TEAMS Whether you are a startup, SaaS business, or growing customer service team, FlockDesk helps you create a more organized support process. Bring customer support, ticket management, email, automation, and team collaboration together with FlockDesk. Spend less time managing support processes and more time helping your customers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FlockDesk at none against Standard Notes's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Standard Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $119.99 per year. FlockDesk asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Standard Notes | FlockDesk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 64.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Standard Notes Ltd. | Mindlabs Systems |
Bugs and requests
Standard Notes
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes disappearing or getting deleted unexpectedly
- Sync issues between devices
- Keyboard and UI bugs on mobile
- Compatibility problems with older iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for images and attachments
- Implement a more robust search function
- Introduce a dark mode option
- Allow for better note organization (folders, nested tags)
- Add undo/redo functionality
FlockDesk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Standard Notes
- Professional Plan7 Days trial$119.991 Year
FlockDesk
No in-app purchases









