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Standard Notes 4+
End-to-end encrypted notes
Standard Notes Ltd.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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/
What’s New
Version 3.194.11
- Fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Developers: PLEASE ADD DELETION AFTER 10 LOGIN ATTEMPTS
Developers: *PLEASE* add account deletion after 10 incorrect login attempts. I have found that it is immensely easy to bypass the StandardNote system as it is, using the default iOS password instead of the face, and then trying each number between 0000 - 9999 until correct. *PLEASE* implement a feature so that everything wipes after 10x attempts. StandardNote is perfect as is, this is the only flaw that I can see, but it is a large flaw as it is related to security. I’m a professional writer and I use the software daily! :)
Account Required!
I don’t want to open up an account! Then my note become traceable back to me. I just want a private freaking note app with no online snooping capabilities! Is that too much to ask? No account was required on my other devices and now after this update you’ve gone stupid.
Developer Response ,
Hi there, the reason we require an account now is that without an account, your notes are not backed up. Users who get a new device or restore their device, and who have not taken manual backups, are then surprised to discover that their notes are no longer present. Because we made it so easy to just open the app and begin taking notes, many users became too comfortable with this and failed to realize their notes were not in fact backed up to any permanent source. We needed to disable this functionality to better protect casual users who may not understand the implications of casual app use.
“There’s something happening here...”
It’s just a basic text editor. Or is it? I don’t think so. It’s more than that but a Prairie Boy like me ain’t gonna even try to explain just exactly what the creators of this app have spent the time and care to offer the masses (that’s me and whoever is and isn’t reading this review) something that ALL OF US should have and use more often.
We take security for granted and we shouldn’t. This app helps us regular folks protect our notes and all the information you squirrel away in various apps that should really have at least some layer of encryption.
It’s stunningly boring to figure out - that’s how easy I found using this app and I’m going to use it lot. But I found the subscription price too high for just personal use but if I had a business? I would pay the asking price in a heartbeat. I’d pay the 5 year subscription fee of $99 in the blink of an eye. And if I had several employees - I’d make them use this app and pay the 5 year fee for each of them as well.
An amazing and extremely thoughtful app that looks ahead to the future of security when the rest of us are oblivious. Kudos to the developers. My only request would be to make a “non-business” subscription rate. I’d pay $2-$3 a month. I’d buy the features out right for $10. Just my suggestion.
This could be the most widely used text editor/word processing app on the App Store if there were more permanent and less pricy ways to upgrade.
App Privacy
The developer, Standard Notes Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Standard Notes Ltd.
- Size
- 82.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Standard Notes Ltd.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Professional Plan $149.99