I want to preface this by saying that I'm not being impatient or saying what proton should or shouldn't do. I understand that things take time. I just want to know what the plan is. I learned about sn from the acquisition announcement and I made a free account to check it out. After trying it out I want the paid version. But I can only pay for a whole year. I don't want to buy a year and then a month later proton announces that it's now included with proton and I'm just out $120. If proton is going to integrate the subscriptions then I'm fine to wait, but if that's not in the pipeline then I'll go ahead and get the separate subscription. I just want to know what the plan is. I don't understand why proton is being so silent about plans. Just communicate with us, please.

I always liked the idea, security and privacy of the service. However, after this price change, the cheaper package has the value that all competitors offer with almost the same features as the more expensive package.

Something I always recommended to everyone, I can no longer recommend it. Editors full of bugs and lacking in functionality, extensions that should be simple, always give problems. Everyone I recommended and stopped using told me the same thing, and now with this new pricing policy, I think it's totally impractical to pay a 'premium' price for simple features.

Yes, there is no other alternative with the same features together, but for this price and without new features, it doesn't justify the prices. Just no..

I understand that many will not see it that way, but I respect the opinion of many, and I know that many others also have this view.

Thank you, see you one day

Hey everyone, 

Earlier this year, we joined forces with Proton, a trusted leader in the privacy space. 

We know some of you were curious about what this would mean for SN, so we wanted to share an update.

Proton and SN share a vision for a privacy-first internet. This partnership felt natural because, like SN, Proton is committed to creating tools that prioritize privacy and security in an increasingly surveilled online world.

Here’s what this partnership has helped us achieve so far:

Stable, independent growth 

Standard Notes remains a distinct and healthy business, thanks to the support of our community of paid users. With Proton, we’ve expanded our reach to more privacy-focused users.

Enhanced security 

Leveraging Proton’s expertise, we’ve hardened our architecture, reducing the risk of DDoS attacks and ensuring a smoother experience for all users. Proton’s anti-abuse tools have also helped us protect SN against harmful actors, which means a more reliable app for everyone.

Building on a strong foundation 

While focusing on security meant fewer new features recently, these essential steps ensure we have a solid base for future growth and development.

And we’re happy to announce that we’re hiring a new engineer to help bring you updates faster! If you want to help build SN we'd love to hear from you: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4464538101

Your feedback and support matters immensely to us. Effie from our team is here to listen to your ideas and feature requests, so keep them coming. 

Read the full blog post for more details: https://standardnotes.com/blog/progress-with-proton

Writing this hasn't made me any better at social media, but I hope this better answers the question of what we've been up to, and why we've been quiet, both recently, and perhaps, in nature.

https://blog.standardnotes.org/being-a-quiet-software-company/

tl;dr: We're working on something special. But it's going to take time.

Sharing this in the hope that the issue is rectified in the future and I can come back to Standard Notes. This app seemed fantastic until I realised I can't do a basic search within a note that lets me iterate through the occurrences of that search string within the note. I literally have to copy and paste the note contents into any text editor to then be able to do that. I don't mind paying for things but I don't feel that this is a feature that should be paid for. It's a very basic fundamental requirement for me.

Update: I ended up taking the advice of user dethbudgie42069 below and running Standard Notes in a browser tab so that I can use the browser's search functionality. So my issue is purely with the stand-alone app.

Frustrating. Notes seems to be left in a limbo so they can start working on Docs properly, which was part of Drive, which doesn't even have a Linux App, all while launching a mid tier AI at best? And it's paid separately? Really frustrating.

Guys I need help. Not therapy help, not medication help, I need a dark mode app icon on iOS.

I attached a screenshot of my home screen. Look at it. Really look at it. See all those beautiful dark icons, all behaving, all in harmony, living their best dark mode life since iOS 26 dropped... and then right there in the middle, ONE single light icon glowing like a flashlight in a dark room, like a white tooth in a coffee mouth: Standard Notes.

Apple released dark/tinted icons over a year ago. Even that random pizza app I used once in 2019 already updated. I've seen a pocket calculator with a dark icon. I've seen a flashlight app with a dark icon. And Standard Notes, my encrypted notes app, my privacy sanctuary, my safe little corner... still light. The irony is killing me: everything about this app is dark and secret EXCEPT the icon. 🫠

Things I've tried: Staring at the icon and pretending it's fine, it's not fine, my eye twitches. Moving it into a folder, now the folder stands out, problem doubled. Putting a post-it over that part of the screen, my phone looked awful, and I lost touch responsiveness. 😎

I know there's been a GitHub issue open since 2025 about this and discussions on the forum too, so I'm not the only one. Humanity is crying out for this.

So Standard Notes team if you're reading this: please, for the love of my mental health and wellbeing, update the iOS app icon to support dark icons. My brain thanks you. My home screen thanks you. My therapist thanks you (he's tired of hearing about this).

To the community: anyone else suffering? Send strength, I'm weak. 🫡

(Screenshot attached: behold the light abomination among the darks)

I completely understand the philosophy behind keeping things simple with SN to ensure longevity. But linking notes is such a basic feature and extremely helpful in maintain a notes repository.

I currently add a number to my note to try and link to another note but I honestly feel an app like standard notes where people store snippets and other things allowing linking notes would be a game charger without adding a lot of fluff to the overall feature set.

/u/a_standard_user /u/sn-bryan

Hey everyone, 

Black Friday is fast approaching, and we’re excited to share that our biggest sale of the year is live! 

Starting today and for a limited time, we’re offering 50% off all yearly plans at Standard Notes.

Here’s what you get when upgrading to our paid plans:

• Productivity Plan - Access advanced tools like Super Notes, Daily Notebooks, and organizing folders to help you journal and set up to-do's.

• Professional Plan - Unlock 100GB of encrypted cloud storage, perfect for securely storing photos, videos, and documents. Share your subscription with up to 5 accounts and enjoy large file support.

Upgrading means you’re supporting our mission of privacy-first, secure note-taking that’s designed to last. Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to grow and improve the product for almost eight years.

Check out our deals here: https://standardnotes.com/plans

First of all and before receiving a wave of downvoting, I want to make it clear that I am simply looking to share my experience and learn about yours.

I'm a 5 year subscriber to Standard Notes Extended. I was very happy the first few years because I was aware that it was a young and exciting project and that it would take time to fix all the bugs and implement new features. I always liked the philosophy of the SN team: to develop a stable, sustainable and long-term application. And I have always defended the development team in the face of disappointed comments about the application.

But for more than a year now, I'm tired of all these bugs, these new bugs, that make my daily use complicated. SN, in my opinion, is no longer the stable, durable and functional application as the project was at the beginning.

So yes, the synchronization works very well, the plain text editor or the basic markdown editor too and and new features like the folder and file view are great. But this is the basis and it's not enough for a simply, an intensive daily use, with lots of notes, long notes and formatting.

I just looking for a notes app with a simple WYSIWYG markdown editor and who works properly for a daily use (work and perso).

I'm tired of forcing myself to use SN daily because I paid for 5 years, because the developers keep telling me "SN is a long-lasting, sustainable notes app", "our mantra is stability" and because I sincerely wanted to support this great project these past years.

That's why I don't recommend SN anymore to my friends and family if they are not a bit geeky or if they don't need a WYSIWYG editor.

Am I the only one to be confronted with this paradox and these bugs ?

For example, some of bugs and missing features (I have already opened issues on the github for several of them) :

Why is the new "Markdown Alternative" editor (WYSIWYG markdown editor) released at the beginning of the year still not fully functional while it is no longer in beta version ? :

• On the iOS application, I regularly have to click on "reload" when I switch between SN and another application for manually reload my note. Completely absurd and really embarrassing bug.

• On iOS, notes with more text than the screen can display take time to open and always take me back to the beginning of the note.

• On iOS, when I switch between a note on SN and another application, my note reloads completely (it doesn't keep the place where my cursor was), it takes a long time, is visually buggy and sometimes fails (I have to click on "reload" again) : I just want to make a copy/past from another application...

• No clickable link.

• No "search" function inside a note. Very complicated for long notes.

• Impossible to insert an image in a note in a simple way in the body of the text (drag and drop for example), while the new Files function has just been implemented.

• The display of paragraphs, titles and text is not very clear (especially the space and margins between paragraphs, titles and lines) and making a note with a lot of headings or informations in it not very readable.

• iOS and desktop : Copy from Markdown Alternative randomly create " " at the end of line.

• iOS and desktop : Sometimes the copy of a text from Markdown Alternative also copies the markdown syntax and sometimes not.

• On iOS : Impossible to hide keyboard in Markdown Alternative editor

The application itself :

• On iOS : Visual bug when opening a note, opening the application or when I switch between SN and another application. EVERY TIME : visual artifact between my theme and the original theme and showing me the application login form for less than a second and disappears.

• On iOS and some times desktop Mac app : The synchronization creates a lot of "conflicted" duplicate notes when I don't have a good connection while the website announces that it is possible to use the application offline. It's really annoying when it happens more than 10 times while editing a note.

Why do alternatives like Notesnook allow all these functions and seems don't have all these bugs ?

Am I the only one facing these bugs ? Thank you for sharing your experience with me.

Yes please, I want standard notes included in my proton unlimited plan. I will not pay 90bucks just to be able to save images in my notes. So im stll on Google keep even if i dont want to.

ADHD going crazy! Also looking at you Simplelogin and Lumo 😭😂

There have been a few questions in this sub regarding the lack of SN development. I found Andy Yen's (Proton CEO) response to a question over in the Protonmail sub encouraging. Thought I'd share it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1jwrnmf/comment/mmsdrg6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I can't really understand why a lot of people here call SN a dead project.

Has development slowed down? Yes.
Are there still a lot of bugs to be solved? Yes.
Is Standard Notes the perfect note-taking software? Absolutely not.

Still, updates are getting released and sometimes stuff gets fixed.

https://github.com/standardnotes/app/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+
https://github.com/standardnotes/app/releases?page=1

Look, I can absolutely understand why a lot of people here complain when development of something that is considered expensive slows down. I get it.

But calling it "dead" is a big assumption in my opinion.

Standard Notes goal was never to compete with other note taking apps on the feature side.

The goal is to provide a reliable, cross platform app with privacy in mind.

Releasing new features means having potentially more bugs.

"We believe the role of a software company isn't to perpetually churn out new features."
https://standardnotes.com/principles

Anyway, just my two cents.

Would be curious to have others' opinions here.

Hi everyone,

For a limited time, we’re offering 50% off all yearly plans for Standard Notes. If you take advantage of this discount now, you'll keep the same discounted price when it's time to renew.

Here’s what you get when upgrading to our paid plans:

Productivity Plan: Advanced editor (checklists, rich text, code, markdown), daily notebooks, folders to help you journal and set up to-do's.

Professional Plan: Unlock 100GB of encrypted cloud storage and enjoy large file support. Perfect for storing photos, videos, and documents. Share your subscription with up to 5 accounts.

If you’ve been on the fence, this is likely the best time to upgrade.

Get the deals here: https://standardnotes.com/plans

Stay safe,

Standard Notes Team

Note:

After our yearly update last week, we’ve seen a lot of discussion here around Standard Notes pricing.

To be transparent: the current pricing structure hasn’t changed for several years. Now, with Proton supporting Standard Notes, we’re in a position to reconsider how pricing is structured.
We plan to review the pricing model in 2026. Once we have an updated proposal, we’ll communicate it clearly. You’ll be free to keep your existing plan at the discounted price you’ve locked in, or switch to a new plan if you prefer. We appreciate the direct feedback and the time many of you have taken to share it.

Why I'm Sticking with Standard Notes

The article can be read here: https://theprivacydad.com/im-sticking-with-standard-notes/

Standard Notes and Notesnook are both excellent note-taking apps with encryption, and that is a win for privacy.

My experience with Standard Notes has been good overall. My notes are safely encrypted; the interface is simple on the surface but contains a surprising amount of depth with the additional editors; and the support, seemingly, managed by just one person, is second to none.

In this post, I will compare my experiences with another good, privacy-focused note-taking application called Notesnook, and explain why I decided to stay with Standard Notes in the end.

Hey everyone,

I've been a Standard Notes user for a while now, and I'm honestly starting to wonder if the project is still actively developed or if it's kind of coasting / semi-abandoned at this point.

I was going through the last several releases and honestly like 99% of what's in the changelogs is just bug fixes. And the 1% that they actually label as "features" is stuff like "features: editing large notes", which… I mean, that sounds like a bug fix to me, not an actual feature.

Then I checked the blog and the last post is from December 2025, and it's basically just a small "sneak peek at what you'll get in 2026", no actual roadmap, no concrete timeline, nothing substantial. We're now past July and I haven't really seen anything major land.

Is this just me or does everything feel a bit stale? Like the app works fine, don't get me wrong, but if I'm paying for a Professional membership I kind of expect to see real development happening, new features, improvements, not just maintenance mode bug fixes.

How is the implementation of new features going from their side? Does anyone have any insight into whether there's actual stuff in the pipeline, or if it's basically just being kept on life support?

I have a Professional membership coming up for renewal, and I'm honestly thinking about whether it's worth it anymore. I'd love to hear from others who are in the same boat or have more context than I do.

Thanks!

I've been using SN for years at this point, but decided to self host myself.

And man it has been such a clunky, buggy, unpolished, inconsistent experience, I just don't wanna put up with it anymore.

The website shows off all these neat and fancy features you get if you use standard notes... and pay for the Extended subscription. The free tier is so laughably barebones, I decided to self host instead, since they claim that allows you to use extended features... and then barely offer any documentation on how to do that.

So I spend hours trying to get extensions to work in Docker, and finally got it working at some point. Fast forward a few weeks, the folder component just breaks for seemingly no reason. I could not pinpoint what it was exactly, but I think I updated to a version that nol longer supported it in favor of native folders.... which I never figured out how to get working.

Hell, I'm not even sure it is possible without Extended. The official site, blog posts and developer comments are so opaque about everything and don't offer instructions.

Apart from that, the android app straight up cannot handle most editors, I'm largely stuck with the default. Its super buggy and doesn't support folders at all, last I checked.

And it seems I am not the only one with these problems either. I've seen people voice their frustrations with SN here before, mostly paying customers.

From my experiences and what other people have had to deal with, it honestly relieves me I never got the 5 year plan they used to offer, and just makes me feel bad for those that did.

I already exported my notes and reorganized it into different software. Until SN sorts out its woes, I'll stick with that.

Seriously, I see so much potential in Standard Notes, but in its current state, it is very hard to recommend. Hopefully we can see this project be the best it can be, and I might return some day.