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NoteTrace

NoteTrace is a self-hosted notes app: quick to capture, easy to find, and it works offline.

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NoteTrace is a self-hosted notes app: quick to capture, easy to find, and it works offline. Notes, checklists and reminders sit in a card grid with labels and colors, with a Markdown editor, [[note links]], voice notes, drawings, file attachments, full-text search, version history and sharing with other accounts on your server. Import from Google Keep (Takeout, images included), Evernote (.enex), Memos, Blinko and Markdown exports such as Obsidian or Joplin, and export everything as Markdown at any time. The installed web app and the native Android app keep working with no connection. Multi-user with OIDC single sign-on and scheduled backups. No telemetry and no accounts on external services; your data stays in your appdata folder. Before the first start, fill in JWT Secret with a long random string, for example the output of openssl rand -base64 48. Insecure Cookies starts at 1 so that

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

49/100 Fair

Maintained
79last commit 1 day ago
Popular
2517 GitHub stars
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

GitHub stars
17
Open issues
5
Last commit
2026-10-12
Latest release
v1.1.1
License
AGPL-3.0
Activity
rising

Checked today - source: GitHub (TraceApps/notetrace)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked today - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

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Alternatives

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Common questions

Can the Android app be used without a connection to the server?

Yes, the Android app can run fully offline or sync against the same server.

Can I import notes from Google Keep?

Yes, it imports Google Keep notes and photos from a Google Takeout export.

Can NoteTrace be placed behind a reverse proxy?

The documentation includes reverse proxy setup and recipes for HTTPS on the LAN, Cloudflare Tunnel, and Tailscale.

Does NoteTrace support OIDC single sign-on?

The documentation covers OIDC/SSO setup, SSO-only mode, and recovery options.

Are scheduled backups supported?

The documentation lists scheduled auto-backups and backup/restore support.

Answers sourced from traceapps.github.io, traceapps.github.io

Community

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