Overview
Notesnook is a privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted note-taking application with clients for web, desktop, iOS, and Android. The server component can be self-hosted using Docker Compose, giving full data sovereignty. Notes support rich text, notebooks, tags, and reminders, with zero-knowledge encryption enforced throughout.
Where it falls short of Evernote
- Self-hosted server documentation is still maturing and can be tricky to set up
- No built-in AI writing assistant unlike Notion AI
- Offline-first mobile sync occasionally has edge-case conflicts on initial vault load
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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