Standard Notes
Standard Notes is a free, open-source notes app for Android and iOS. An end-to-end encrypted note-taking app for digitalists and professionals. It has 6,645 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid, Google Play and the App Store.
- Official
- Android
- iOS
- Notes & to-do
- Actively maintained
About Standard Notes
Standard Notes is a secure and private notes app. It syncs your notes securely across all your devices, including your Android devices, Windows, iOS, Linux, and Web. 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.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Standard Notes from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
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What is Standard Notes?
Standard Notes is a free, open-source notes app for Android and iOS. An end-to-end encrypted note-taking app for digitalists and professionals. It has 6,645 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid, Google Play and the App Store.
Is Standard Notes free and open source?
Yes. Standard Notes's source code is public on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0-only license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Standard Notes?
You can install Standard Notes from F-Droid (package com.standardnotes), from Google Play and from the App Store; the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: @standardnotes/desktop@3.202.7).
Is Standard Notes still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Sep 30, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Oct 2, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.