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Notesnook

Open-source alternative toEEvernote

Notesnook is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted note-taking app with web, desktop, mobile clients, and a web clipper focused on private note storage.

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14,417

HostingSelf-hostable

LicenseGPL-3.0

LanguageTypeScript

Last commitAug 14, 2026

Latest releaseAug 10, 2026

Release frequency6.0 per month

Contributors53

Stars14,417

Forks981

Issues959

What it does

Notesnook is a privacy-focused, open-source note-taking application. It encrypts notes on the device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2, following a zero-knowledge design intended to keep user content protected.

The repository contains the code needed to build and use web, desktop, and mobile clients, along with a web-clipper extension. Its shared editor and core packages support the cross-platform applications, while React, React Native, and Electron provide the documented client technologies. The repository is licensed under GPL-3.0.

Capabilities

#Cross-device multimedia note capture and retrieval

#Web Clipper

#Cross-platform sync and offline access

Categories

#Calendars & Scheduling #Document Collaboration #Note Taking #Task Management

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