notesnook
Notes & Editors
v3.4.11
Notesnook is a privacy-first note-taking app whose web, desktop and mobile clients all live in one open-source monorepo, with everything encrypted on the…2d agoGPL-3.0DockerAdvanced
Self-hosted alternatives to Standard Notes
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About these Standard Notes alternatives
3 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Standard Notes are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- notesnook (14 848 GitHub stars, GPL-3.0 license, written in Typescript), followed by Plainpad and Notesnook Sync Server
- Docker
- 3 of the top 3 ship an official Docker image
- Easiest to set up
- Plainpad
- Recently updated
- notesnook v3.4.11 on 2026-10-26
Standard Notes alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| notesnook | GPL-3.0 | Typescript | 14 848 | Yes | Advanced | v3.4.11 | 73 |
| Plainpad | GPL-3.0 | PHP | 450 | Yes | Easy | 1.2.0 | 49 |
| Notesnook Sync Server | AGPL-3.0 | C# | 947 | Yes | Advanced | 3.3.27 | 48 |