Inkdrop
The note-taking app with robust Markdown editor, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux. This app is designed to be the most convenient way to make notes in Markdown for your daily hacking.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
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Inkdrop enables hackers to keep track of their daily progress when it comes to hacking in one convenient spot without having to rely on traditional word processors.
Inkdrop features support for #Markdown with the ability to do code syntax highlighting as well as built-in syncing capabilities. Users can organize their progress in a clean, uniform way that's focused on ensuring that the information is easy to work through and can be read uniformly.
Inkdrop features support for #Markdown with the ability to do code syntax highlighting as well as built-in syncing capabilities. Users can organize their progress in a clean, uniform way that's focused on ensuring that the information is easy to work through and can be read uniformly.
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Our users have written 18 comments and reviews about Inkdrop, and it has gotten 38 likes
- Developed by Takuya Matsuyama
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- Subscription that costs about $5 per month.
- Average rating of 4.5
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Nice features, pretty but expensive, not as private as Boostnote and with a recalcitrant developer
Written: 2018-05-23
Purpose and pricing
Inkdrop is an attractive-looking, multi-platform note-taking app primarily aimed at software developers, although suitable for others as well. It's closed source and costs USD $60/year (although you get 60 days free at the start). Students get a 60% discount for 12 months, but this entails sending your ID to a complete stranger (not advisable!).
Security and privacy
I have previously written positively about Inkdrop, primarily because the market is desperately short of note-taking apps that use end-to-end encryption for protecting people's data. (Standard Notes and Turtl perhaps the only other viable contenders.)
My correspondence with the developer led me to believe that he was implementing end-to-end encryption, but this turns out not to be the case. At the very least, information in Inkdrop's website is inconsistent. On the Security page, we are told:
But, then, this on the Inkdrop forum forum:
All this amounts to no end-to-end encryption, and contradicts what the developer described to me by email. He isn't able to look at your data, but the servers that are used are. This means your data is not fully secure from prying eyes; encryption does not happen locally on your computer. And therefore, I withdraw my recommendation to use Inkdrop as a privacy-conscious note-taking app. Server-side encryption is better by a long way than what Evernote "offer", but it's no better than something like Dropbox. In the same sense that locking your house and leaving the key under the doormat is better than nothing but not as secure as taking the key with you.
Lack of clarity about Inkdrop's privacy practices have attracted questions on their forum. This is not acceptable. If you are in the business of storing or syncing people's data you should be crystal clear what they can expect. Some of the confusion appears to come from the developer failing to explain himself in layman's terms. For example, he assumes non-technical users will understand how an encryption key is encrypted with a password.
Also, as we learn here, data is stored on US servers. Given that Inkdrop admits the data touches the servers in an unencrypted format, it means that user data spends at least some time on US servers, unencrypted. That's very, very bad for privacy, not least because of the US legal system, which is able to sequester that kind of data for use by the NSA and other three-letter agencies.
Features
Inkdrop's primary advantage are:
Inkdrop has made some progress in the past 12 months. However, on closer inspection, I think there are some considerable deficiencies that make its $60/year price tag difficult to swallow (the encryption concerns notwithstanding):
Advice to Inkdrop
Don't want to lose to Boostnote? Do this:
Without this, it's not worth $60/year. It's just not.
Looks like v4.0 will finally have end-to-end encryption (https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2)
Reply written over 1 year ago
The search for the perfect note-taking app is finally over. It's elegant, well designed, simple, and functional.
Cool UI, developer very quick to respond to bugfix and fix them.
Only downside is the lack of a web version.
This is what I have been looking for - Markdown note-taking app which can (almost) replace Evernote. Enthusiastic, committed developer with a realistic approach to the business model: charging a reasonable fee means higher probability this product will survive (and evolve). It's an Electron app, so a little slow to start. Would like to be able to access/edit notes in Chrome browser, but overall this is a great product.
Needed a dedicated place for code snippets / Math based notes / install guidelines, etc. The most important thing for me is that it followed githubs conventions for markdown. So I can copy paste my notes straight to a .md file.
It is a much better alternative than boostnote in my opinion. Boostnote feels disjointed since its made as an open source community. Inkdrop right off the bat felt intuitive and easy to use. You can tell its made by one developer just by using it. All the native hotkeys are well thought out. I find myself agreeing to all the decisions and choices the solo developer of this app has made.
[Edited by Kagerjay, May 14]