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Reviewed by Marco Wollank
Joplin
joplinapp.org 2 ratings so far*
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Threat level
Covered
A covered pick. Anyone can use it as a private drop-in, with no setup or know-how. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Massively popular (55k stars) and the de facto open-source choice for Markdown notes, with the unusual strength that you bring your own sync, Dropbox, Nextcloud, or whatever, instead of being locked to one vendor. The catch is that end-to-end encryption is opt-in and the setup is more hands-on than a polished commercial app, so newcomers can stumble. Pick Joplin if you want full control over where your notes live and don’t mind configuring sync yourself. People who want notes to just appear, encrypted, with zero setup should choose a managed service.
GitHub at a glance
laurent22/joplin
Stars
55,544
+ 394 this week
Last commit
10d ago
healthy
Latest release
v3.6.15
21d ago
Stars, last 32d
Website at a glance
joplinapp.org
C score 50
Basic website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 15d ago
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Measures the security configuration of the tool's own website, not the privacy of the product itself. A strong tool can still score low here.
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