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A safe and private place for your life's work.

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A safe and private place for your life's work. Standard Notes is a simple and private notes app available on most platforms, including Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Before you start, make sure to copy the sample.env.sample (https://github.com/standardnotes/app/blob/main/.env.sample) to your standardnotes-web appdata directory and configure it with your parameters. Update the container ExtraParams accordingly.

Platform availability

Available on 2 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS
  • 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.

70/100 Good

Maintained
100last commit 5 days ago
Popular
766,647 GitHub stars
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
502 GB minimum RAM

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 11 days ago

GitHub stars
6,647
Open issues
95
Last commit
2026-10-08
Latest release
@standardnotes/[email protected]
License
AGPL-3.0
Activity
steady

Checked 5 days ago - source: GitHub (standardnotes/app)

Resources & Compatibility

Minimum requirements: 2 GB RAM. ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is not supported.

Checked 14 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

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Checked 11 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

How do I deploy the self-hosted Standard Notes web app?

Build the repository and serve the static files in the packages/web folder behind a web server or simple HTTP server.

Which local port does the README example use to serve the built web app?

The example starts a Python HTTP server on port 8080.

How do I make the web client use my own sync server?

Set the DEFAULT_SYNC_SERVER environment variable to your sync server URL so login and registration use that server.

Can I access the Standard Notes web editors outside my home network without a reverse proxy?

A community thread describes hosting the official static editors on GitHub Pages to access them outside the home network without a VPN or reverse proxy.

Answers sourced from github.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 13 days ago - public community threads