OfflineNote vs Rune Secure Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
OfflineNote
Securely capture your thoughts, ideas, and important information offline. This app stores your data solely on your device, offering full control and robust encryption for privacy. Organize notes with custom styles, categories, and lists, and easily back up or share your data.
- Offline note-taking
- Device-only data storage
- Customizable paper options
- Categories and subcategories
- To-do lists
- Secure data backup and sharing
- Encrypted fields
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Do you want to jot down your special notes, breakthrough ideas or any information so you don't forget it, but you are worried about the security of your data? Then press the download button without wasting time! OfflineNote is a note-taking application where you can take notes offline and your data is stored only on your device. You have full control over your data. Your data is never stored on a server or cloud system. You can store your database in your own trusted areas and then include it again. You can also use this feature to share your notes with your loved ones. Here are the highlights of OfflineNote: - Different Paper Options: Take notes on plain, lined, square, canvas, etc. paper options; draw in canvas mode. - Categories and Subcategories: Organise your notes with thematic categories and subcategories. - Rich Customisation: Personalise your notes by adding custom colours, icons and images. - Lists: Create to-do lists and tick off tasks you have completed. - Search Feature: Easily find your notes, categories and lists. - Data Backup: Export all your data securely and back it up in a storage space you trust. - Database Sharing: Share the records you have created with your loved ones. (You are a famous cook and you have a database where you save your recipes, you can share it with all your followers and all they have to do is import this database and include it in the application. And yes, all your recipes are among their notes). - Security: Your note fields are kept encrypted and when exported, all sensitive parts are fully encrypted and exported. - Language Support: It is suitable for everyone with different language options. You don't have to keep everything in your mind. Come on and take notes!
Rune Secure Notes
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Rune is a calm, fast notes app for people who don't want to trust an app with their data. Your notes never leave your device, they are encrypted at rest, and the app makes no network connections at all. There is no account, no cloud, and no sign-up. Privacy by construction, not by promise: ⢠No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, none, not "anonymised", not "aggregated". ⢠No networking code. Put your device in airplane mode and everything still works. If anything ever tries to reach the network, that is a bug. ⢠No account and no server. There is no "we" that could hold your data. Real encryption: ⢠Your passphrase derives a key with Argon2id; notes are sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption. Only ciphertext is ever written to disk. ⢠The passphrase is never stored and is not recoverable. If you forget it, your notes are gone, no reset, no backdoor. That is the price of real privacy. ⢠A wrong passphrase simply cannot decrypt your notes. ⢠Optional Face ID / Touch ID unlock: opt in to unlock with biometrics. Even then the passphrase is never stored ā only the in-memory key is cached behind the biometric prompt. What you can do: ⢠Create, edit, search, and organise plain-text notes with a clean, calm layout. ⢠Auto-lock on inactivity and lock-on-background; the app starts locked. ⢠Export an encrypted backup (safe to keep anywhere); plaintext export is gated behind an explicit warning. ⢠Capture voice notes and transcribe them to text entirely on your device with on-device speech recognition ā no audio and no transcript ever leaves your phone. Free and open source under the GNU GPLv3. The security-critical code is a small, dependency-light core so it can be read and audited. Releases ship with cryptographic provenance and are built reproducibly, so you can verify the binary was built from this source.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rune Secure Notes at every 2 days against OfflineNote's every 4 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OfflineNote ships an update every 4 months, Rune Secure Notes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OfflineNote | Rune Secure Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Oguzhan TORUNOGLU | Rory Standley |
In-app purchases
OfflineNote
No in-app purchases
Rune Secure Notes
No in-app purchases
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