UpNote - notes, diary, journal 4+

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!

I love this app, updates are timely

I chose this out of several other notes apps to make mostly bulleted life lists (like workout choices, regular recipes to make, etc). I’m big on keeping things simple and keeping my options open, so I can be healthy and live in the moment. This is a wonderful app to whittle down your lists to simple beautiful uniform ones. I upgraded and it seemed so insignificant at the time, that I don’t even remember how much I paid. But, it was worth it, even if it’s a pretty simple app.

I had a moment of panic when it started crashing each time I pasted anything - went straight to App Store reviews to see if something was awry (it had great ratings when I downloaded), and it turns out my iPad had not updated a new version, yet. So, I updated, and presto! Everything works perfectly again. My confidence in the developer is increasing, and I hope they continue the good work.

Developer Response ,

Hi Sherylc6, thank you so much for your kind words. That really motivates us to make the app even better in the future.