encryptednotes.com

What It Is

Encrypted Notes is a privacy-first note-taking and writing app. Its interface mimics the “send to yourself” experience of instant messaging apps, with a focus on quick capture: you can create a new note in two taps from the home screen, or a new to-do in three. It supports full Markdown and can publish notes as SEO-friendly web articles. After signing up, users get a custom subdomain and can also connect their own domain.

Core Features and Integrations

The product covers both personal knowledge management and creative workflows: fuzzy search, to-dos, local OCR for text in images that is added to search, canvas drawing and moodboards, link previews, focus mode, plus embeds for videos, PDFs, canvases, spreadsheet formulas, and more. It includes LanguageTool grammar checking and SmartyPants typography conversion. AI is an optional module and is turned off by default. The text explicitly mentions support for multiple AI providers, including Mistral, Cerebras, built-in AI, model selection, editing system prompts, and connecting MCP.

Privacy, Security, and Deployment

This is the product’s strongest selling point. The text states that all notes are end-to-end encrypted, including metadata; no email is required to sign up; servers are located in Europe; and there are no logs, cookies, tracking, behavioral analytics, or profiling. The code is open source and designed to be easy to audit. However, AI features are an exception: because models need to read plaintext prompts, AI processing is not end-to-end encrypted. The company says it does not associate prompts back to users, and only records monthly token usage for billing.

Pricing and Target Users

Pricing is $10/month, including 5GB of storage. Additional storage costs $5/200GB/month. AI tokens are charged separately at provider pricing, with no platform markup. We did not find information about a free plan, trial, payment methods, or enterprise plans. It is a good fit for privacy-sensitive individual users, Markdown writers, journaling and idea-capture users, and creators who want to publish articles or build a personal page directly from their notes.

Pros, Cons, and Access from China

The main strengths are clear privacy commitments, a comprehensive feature set, AI that is off by default and can be user-provided, and strong publishing capabilities. The drawbacks are the lack of team collaboration, permissions, enterprise compliance certifications, customer support SLA, and payment information, making it feel less like an enterprise SaaS for organizations. Access from China is not specified in the text and would need real-world testing; overseas services and AI providers may involve uncertainty around connectivity and payments. Domestic alternatives in China include 语雀 and 飞书文档; for privacy-focused options, compare Standard Notes, Obsidian Sync, and Joplin.