With the proliferation of digital devices, many people’s notes and journals have moved from pen and paper to online documents and note-taking apps. While this brings convenience, it also raises potential privacy concerns. Who has access to your private musings and innermost thoughts? Do you want your notes stored on some company’s servers with unclear data protection policies?

Privacy matters

They’re deeply personal, and you deserve complete control over who accesses them. With many free note-taking apps, you have to accept vague privacy policies that essentially hand over your data to the app provider. Even if you trust them now, what happens if the company is acquired or has a change in management down the road? With Encrypted Notes, privacy is baked into the core of the service. All your notes are secured with end-to-end encryption, meaning only you have the decryption keys. Not even company employees access the content of your notes. You remain in full control.

Security you can trust

Encrypted Notes uses industry-leading encryption techniques to secure your data both in transit and at rest. Secure Shell (SSH) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encrypt all traffic between your devices and our servers. Once on our servers, your notes are encrypted with 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256), the same encryption used by banks and militaries worldwide. Your notes are then stored in our geographically distributed cloud infrastructure to minimize the risk of data loss. You rest assured your notes are safe.

Convenient features for power users

Encrypted Notes also packs convenient features to help you get the most out of your private journaling. Built-in optical character recognition (OCR) allows you to search your handwritten notes. Our powerful text editor lets you format your notes with headers, bullet points, code blocks, and more. Notes are organized into flexible hierarchies using folders and tags. You even embed media like images and audio clips. For power users, our apps support Markdown for fast formatting. Finally, our web clipper browser extension lets you easily save webpages, articles, and images into your notes for future reference more information through privatenote.io.

Access your notes anywhere

Life happens on the go, so Encrypted Notes is built as a cloud-first cross-platform service. Our web app gives you secure access to your notes from any browser. Native mobile apps for iOS and Android make writing and referencing notes on your phone a seamless experience. Notes sync instantly across all your devices, so your journal is always available wherever inspiration strikes. Even if you’re offline, you still create and read notes, which sync up when you’re back on the internet. With Encrypted Notes, your notes go wherever you go while remaining protected.

Affordable for private use

Encrypting and securing your notes requires top-tier server infrastructure and ongoing development work to incorporate the latest encryption standards and features. However, we believe private journaling should be accessible to everyone as a core privacy right. That’s why Encrypted Notes offers personal plans for as little as $3/month. Even at the lowest tier, you still get all the security protection and convenient features mentioned above. For less than the cost of a coffee per month, your most private thoughts and ideas get the VIP treatment they deserve.