Memos vs Standard Notes
A side-by-side comparison of Memos and Standard Notes — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking and memo hub | End-to-end encrypted notes app with self-hostable sync server |
| Category | Notes & Knowledge Base | Notes & Knowledge Base |
| Replaces | Evernote, Notion | Evernote, Obsidian |
| GitHub stars | 40k | 6k |
| Language | Go | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 3/5 Moderate |
| Deploy options | Docker Manual | Docker Docker Compose |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 7 days ago | 18 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
