Simplenote
The simplest way to keep notes.
What is Simplenote?
Made by the company behind 
WordPress, Simplenote enables users to take notes, lists, and ideas. These notes are stored on the cloud and are accessible across multiple devices.
Simplenote's both client and server components are free and open-source. However, the service component of Simplenote requires free registration and accepting the terms of service.
WordPress, Simplenote enables users to take notes, lists, and ideas. These notes are stored on the cloud and are accessible across multiple devices.Simplenote's both client and server components are free and open-source. However, the service component of Simplenote requires free registration and accepting the terms of service.
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Our users have written 28 comments and reviews about Simplenote, and it has gotten 522 likes
- Developed by Automattic, Inc
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.7
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I like it but it needs more options such as the ability to lock notes, encryption keys, themes, etc.
I loved it until I discovered Standard Notes, which is features-rich (a ton of extensions), has a lot of great-looking themes (including dark themes) and is encrypted by default. Highly recommend you check it out:
Standard Notes
Reply written over 1 year ago
The one true sync everywhere solution. Desktop clients are built on Electron and are a bit on the heavy side on filesize and memory usage, but there's many alternative clients, such as AlephNote (Windows), nvAlt (MacOS) etc Updated at a slow pace, but the supported by the company behind WordPress and hopefully safe for many years to come.
Not only is the service not fully open source (it was listed as open source here before - now corrected to "free" (as in beer, not birds)), the privacy policy is every bit as alarming as for any other service that "for free" stores your information on its servers in unencrypted format in US juridiction, including that they may sell it. From the privacy policy (10th January 2017):
Careful what you put into Simplenote, therefore. And follow the default advice for cloud services: put on other people's servers (services) only things you wouldn't mind becoming public/published.
For a much more private, open source alternative, try Turtl. It might not be mature/stable enough yet though, so check back every now and again to see if it will serve your needs. Otherwise, Laverna is also a good online note-taking app with security built in. It's also open source and supports markdown, unlike Simplenote.
[Edited by JohnFastman, March 10]
Has been greatly improved after it almost felt abandoned. Very reliable syncing on all my devices, thumbs up!
I see that there is a bit of misunderstanding about Simplenote and its licensing model. The Simplenote client is indeed free and open-source, under the terms of GPL v2. (See simplenote-electron on GitHub) It connects to server components that are also free and open-source. But Simplenote is more a service than an app; in the end, you entrust other people with your data in exchange for achieving mobility. That means you must study the terms of service.
All things considered, I like Simplenote.
• Edited 9 months ago
electron app, uses lot of memory for a simple app
No encryption and no offline save is a big no. If some hacker manage to hack it's server there would be no protection