UpNote - notes, diary, journal 4+

Cliche or not - I’ve tried them all, and this is by far the best

After years of being a faithful and paying user of a major competitor product, I finally had to look for a replacement due to regular large price increases and some (to me anyway) unnecessary bloat in that app and service.

Having tried nearly every notetaking app at some point over the last few years, I couldn’t find a good replacement. being in the Google ecosystem, I tried keep as my primary notetaking app for quite a while, but I just couldn’t make it work. I had seen UpNote on a few lists of worthy products to try, and I gave it a shot. I immediately felt like this was going to be a good solution and potentially even a better solution than what I had been using for years.

Having now used it for a couple of months now, being a paid premium user for most of that time, I can absolutely say this is a nearly perfect solution for me. It can work simply as a place to jot some quick thought, or it can easily organize the thousands of notes that I currently have. The folder and notebook structure makes sense to me, and the ability to use tags is incredibly convenient. Importing from other major services is extremely simple.

I would encourage anyone to at least give this a try. Once you see how much more affordable it is on top of everything else, I would imagine it could be hard to go back to another premium note taking app.

Developer Response ,

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It’s so so so underrated

I wish this app will go on for a long long time. I hope it will reach the popularity it deserves and give the developers the cashflow to keep it running.

First of all, it’s cross-platformed. Not just available on every platform but looks and works the same too. You won’t even feel any difference. This might be small deal to many but trust me it makes the app so much more useful if you got different devices.

Second of all, it got lifetime license for a reasonable price.

Now to the app, it is simple, markdown-based note taking. What makes it more useful is they implement the most basic, the most useful features very very well. They don’t over complicate anything, just make it work right. Tag? # write checked. Headers? # space write checked. Table? Markdown table is complicated but they built in a func to generate tables so checked. Modifying tables? Checked.

You know what’s crazy? They got mathjax integrated too so you can write beautiful equations within your notes too. It’s crazy. I’ve never seen any app being able to do it so gracefully.

This app is a gem. It blends the simplicity of markdown with more advanced features in a seamless way making writing notes so much easier. Thank you so much everyone who works on this!

The only thing Id ask is if you can provide dmg file installer for mac along side the app store option. Thanks again!

Wow, this is a great notes app, missing one thing

I’m sort of like a connoisseur of productivity apps. Real appreciation for them. I’ve got a new productivity app every week or so. I’ve tried every notes app there ever was, including Evernote, Apple’s home-built Notes app, Bear, Obsidian, Joplin, and more and I’ve found UpNote to be the most functional and practical app while maintaining a great UX/UI. That’s a really hard balance to strike and the dev did it beautifully. Evernote was early in the game and did it right way back when but hasn’t been able to keep up with the times. I found UpNote rather accidentally when looking through notes apps & have decided to make it my main notes app (moving from Joplin) going forward.

The one thing missing from UpNote is encryption. I’d like to see all of my notes encrypted with E2EE. I don’t store sensitive information in notes apps, but I still would rather them be encrypted because notes do contain lots of information.

Five stars once encryption is added, keep up the good work!