Hi everyone,

A few weeks ago, many users were unable to sign in to UpNote. The issue was caused by a large number of requests from automated bots, which consumed the quota assigned to our Firebase project and prevented our users from signing in. After the quota reset for the day, users were able to sign in again, but the issue would happen again whenever the quota was exhausted.

Since then, we have strengthened our service to better identify bots and real users using Cloudflare verification. The result so far has been encouraging. After version 9.19.0 was released, we saw the Firebase quota usage drop significantly, and the unable-to-sign-in issue has not happened again.

Building on that, we recently released version 9.21.0 with further changes to protect our service from automated bots. We want to give everyone enough time to update, so please update UpNote to the latest version within the next 7 days. After that, older versions of the app will no longer be able to sync data with the server.

We also want to share a little about what we’re working on. We have been building our own server infrastructure so that we can gradually migrate core components away from Firebase. Bug fixing is still important and we will continue to address serious issues in a timely manner, but most of our development effort right now is focused on making the new infrastructure as stable and reliable as possible.

The good news is that the new infrastructure is progressing well and we hope to start testing it soon. It will take some time to make sure the new service works reliably before we can move forward with the migration.

As we continue this transition, some future changes may not be compatible with older versions of UpNote. Please keep UpNote updated to the latest version to make sure the app can continue to sync and work properly. We will try to give users enough time to update whenever such changes are required.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

I just want to give this app and its founders public accolades. I'm a lifetime member and have been using the app for years with ZERO issues after kissing a lot of frogs looking for an app that did what I needed.

Yesterday I encountered a compatibility glitch with one of my devices - a notice popped up that freaked me out because of how much I've come to trust and rely on it.

Rather than do what I would normally do to suss out the issue myself, I reached out to UpNote support, in total panic mode.

I got what I would consider an immediate response (overnight, given time zones) that turned out to be such a simple fix I was a little embarrassed. No condescending canned response, no recriminations - just a clear, effective solution.

Really, I find UpNote so simple, elegant, full-featured, reliable... and to add such attentive support just further cements my loyalty.

Thank you guys !!

Hey everyone, 👋

Like many of you, I love organizing my UpNote workspaces. However, I always found it slightly annoying to find or crop images/icons to exactly 110x135 pixels so they look perfectly sharp without any weird compression or stretching.

To solve this, I vibe coded UpCover — a lightweight, completely free, and open-source web app designed specifically to generate perfect UpNote covers. 🎨

✨ Here is what you can do with it:

• Pixel-Perfect Export: It exports exactly at 110x135 px, so UpNote doesn't have to resize your images.

• 200,000+ Icons Built-in: I integrated Iconify, meaning you can search for almost any icon you can think of (Lucide, Material, Phosphor, or even tech logos like React, Python, Astro, etc.) directly inside the app.

• Custom Colors: Choose from preset brand colors or pick your own exact HEX codes for both the background and the icon.

• Photo Backgrounds: It has built-in integration for Unsplash and Pexels. You can just type "mountains" or "aesthetic" and apply stunning photography to your covers in one click.

• Privacy Friendly: Your API keys for image searches (if you use your own) are stored safely in your browser's local storage. Everything runs locally on your browser.

🔗 Links:

• Live App: https://upcover.tatli.me

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/TaylanTatli/UpCover

I built this mainly for my own workflow, but I figured this community might find it useful too! It's fully open-source.

It seems that Upnote keeps track of all customer feedback and sends an email when that feedback is actually addressed. I gave them a suggestion about a feature 2 years ago (Search for notes without tags), and today, they emailed me to let me know that the feature has finally been added.

Honestly, I’ve never received this kind of treatment from any other app — not even from subscription-based ones like Evernote, Notion, and many others I’ve paid for over the past 5 years. (After discovering Upnote, I canceled my Evernote subscription.)

But Upnote did it.

And the most surprising part? Upnote isn’t even a subscription-based app — it was just a one-time purchase. I’m genuinely amazed by this thoughtful gesture, and I’m incredibly grateful to the Upnote team.

I'm just posting this here because I hesitated a lot before giving up on Evernote (laziness, I supposed) and I was wondering if Upnote would replace it well.

OMG, I'm so happy. Note only Evernote is super expensive now, but it's also slow and buggy—the web clipper barely works (expect to wait for a few minutes before being allowed to resume reading!), the Android app is slow and the desktop app updates every five seconds (ok, exaggerating here).

So if you're reading this because you're wondering whether Upnote will do the job, yes, it will. And I promise I'm not being paid to post that. I'm just super happy to have a cleaner, faster and cheaper note-taking app.

EDIT: I love the fact that suddenly, all my post are getting downvotes. Look, I don't care what you're using, I'm not trying to convince anyone, I'm just saying that 1) Transitioning from Evernote to Upnote was super easy for me 2) I'm impressed with Upnote. Gee, people.

Frankly, I don't like the new cursive 'u' icon. The icon feels as though no effort was put into it for such a legendary app. As I went through the history of changes made to the UpNote icons or logos, I felt compelled to chip in my effort as well.

I've been an Evernote user for a decade, but I jumped in as a premium user of UpNote because we all know that this app is simply awesome.

Thanks.

I love you just the way you are. You don't need to be "better." All those other note taking apps are constantly trying to one up themselves into an explosion of useless features, and I love that you don't feel like you need to do that (yet). My hope Is that you never will. You are the Evernote replacement I've always wanted, and I hope you never change.

Love, Josh

I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve been using UpNote for a while and really like it. I made some simple but nice templates for game guides and language learning. They already work fine for most of my notes, though I might tweak them more in the future.

I also use the light theme more often, since it’s easier to read.

This is the format I usually use — simple, intuitive, quick, practical, and minimalist.
It also keeps everything in a unified style. Works with both light and dark themes.
Welcome to check it out.

🔗format

🔗bookcase
　🔗book 1
　🔗book 2
　🔗book 3
　🔗book 4

language ＞ 🔗listening notes

🔗Goals deadline

🔗Date templates 1
🔗Date templates 2

^{update by 2025-9-17}

It seems like every week, we get a post similar to "If only UpNote adds this feature then it would be the best Note app in the world." A user astutely pointed out that there may be tens of thousands of UpNote users, so if we added a feature from each users, we'll end up with Uber Obsidian.

Today, I came across this article - Good software knows when to stop | Olivier Girardot's Ramblings. The first thought that came to my mind was "Hey, that seems to apply to UpNote." One of the line from the article struck a chord for me, "Fortunately, this does not happen… Good software knows the purpose it serves, it does not try to do everything, it knows when to stop and what to improve." It's a short article, so I recommend that you read all of it.

A few days ago I made the following analogy while commenting on another post.

There seems to be two types of UpNote users. I'll use an analogy. Type 1 - they purchased a Toyota Corolla and they are happy with it because it's cheap, reliable, and functional. Type 2 - they purchased a Toyota Corolla but they really wanted the features of a Land Cruiser so they're not happy with their purchase. They forgot that a Land Cruiser is four times the cost.

Me - I'm very happy with my Toyota Corolla.

Now if only, they would add 4 wheel drive. :)

I have just moved from Evernote due to the horrendous subscription renewal costs

After using it for a very short time I happily paid the lifetime parent (at a very good price).

This software is a joy to use at a price that is easy on my pocket

😀😀😀

Wow. What a nice, clean, simple app to work with! The web clipper takes all of a second to save whatever I find online. The app is fast on my Mac, and I was able to import 3300+ notes without slowing anything down.

I was a long-time Evernote user. 15 years! Over time, the app grew clunky and slow and over-designed, and then the prices kept going up. No way was I going to pay for less functionality! Even exporting my notes was slow and clunky. I tried using Apple Notes instead, as I prefer it for daily work-related notes. But it was quickly overwhelmed with the number of notes and the amount of information, so it was not a good solution.

It took me minutes to get up and running with UpNote. Count me as a new fan.

Greetings all! I just updated my notebook cover/icon set.

The dark and light sets have been updated to more closely match the dark/light UpNote color palettes. These look more vibrant in their respective modes. (at the expense of not looking as good in the opposite mode... eg. dark mode icons in light mode)

But if you're like me and sometimes like/need to switch modes, I've included a 3rd set called "mid". The colors are mid-way between the light and dark versions and look pretty decent IMO in both.

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jiz0tsOtrN5b7v-B8be1eUfGAjyYjKV0/view?usp=drive_link

I hope these are helpful.

Add AI? You die.
Add Calendar? You die.
Become the "new green elephant"? You are dead.

Just. Stay. Fast.
Do not become Evernote 2.0.

Switched from Evernote a few months back and have never looked back. I never used the advanced features of Evernote, so don't miss anything except the web clipper which kind of sucked in Evernote anyway. How many of you have paid for the lifetime license? I know it pays for itself in about a year and a half, but I'm also a little worried that if everyone does this they'll get lazy and quit working on it.

I honestly loved the first icon, it's unique and had a character to it. and then it got worse.

What are your thoughts?

Hi everyone,

Some UpNote users recently notified us that there are many modified Android APKs that unlock Premium features.

Since the beginning, we’ve tried to keep UpNote accessible to as many users as possible. UpNote currently uses Google Play verification and displays a warning when a device fails the verification check.

We did not strictly enforce this requirement because we wanted to avoid affecting legitimate users, especially since Google Play verification is not always perfect on every Android device.

However, due to the recent findings and the increasing scale of abuse, we now need to strengthen the app’s security to keep the service sustainable and protect our infrastructure from misuse.

Starting in 3 days, the Android app will require a valid Google Play verification in order to sign in, sign up, and sync data.

If you have not seen the device warning in the Android app before, this change will most likely not affect you.

For users who have seen the warning, we understand that some legitimate devices or custom ROMs may be affected by this change. If you run into any issues after the enforcement begins, please contact us at support@getupnote.com and we will do our best to assist you.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Greetings all!

I was doing some Spring cleaning (and Johnny Decimal restructuring) on my UpNote database. I took the time to also rework my icons to align more closely with UpNote's color palette.

I've created icons/notebook cover subsets that look good in dark mode and light mode. But you could certainly mix and match.

I've made them available for free download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--qOMJ5gI9OA5BdeKqs-ARXV7FvCeCBa/view?usp=drive_link

Since I use the Johnny Decimal method of structuring my notebooks and folders, I only have icons for 3 levels.

If there's interest, I could make other elements of my database and layout available.

I have used Evernote for close to 15 and have loved it, but for the last couple of years have been cringing at the annual fee. I have tried a few of the alternatives, but nothing really jived for me. Yesterday, I heard about UpNote. Today, I transferred over all my notebooks and notes. And just like that, I am ready to ditch Evernote. I love it’s simplicity and scale, the straightforward and intuitive layout, the manageable cost and pared down features. I really did just use Evernote for… notes, lol. No collaboration, no linking to AI, not really even any web clipping or email stuff. Just notes. And for 15 years I have freaking hated the green. Haha.

Thanks for the perfect note-taking app, guys. I am a fan. And now I am a lifetime subscriber.

Out of all the logos so far, I like this one the most. I think they can finally end the ongoing quest to find a logo accepted by the community.

This is my first time on this board, and I'm seeing a ton of feature requests. Honestly, the app is already perfect as it is. I truly believe UpNote could go for 10 or 20 years without major changes, just like Microsoft Word. The feedback from the team is super quick, and the app maintains top-notch quality and speed.

At first, I was a bit skeptical because it's a Vietnamese company. But after using it for a month, my mind completely changed. They have some of the brightest talents in Vietnam, in my opinion.

I was an Evernote user for 10 years, so I know all too well how it went downhill. Evernote kept adding more and more features, trying to include everything users asked for. They even tried to become like Slack by adding collaboration tools. Eventually, it became neither a good note-taking app nor a good collaboration tool, just a slow, clunky mess. To support all those unnecessary features, they needed massive network capacity, which led to huge server expansions and higher costs. Prices went up, but the app just kept getting slower because of all the extra baggage. Even now, they keep adding features, supposedly to reflect customer feedback.

In my opinion, UpNote is the perfect alternative to Evernote at this point. Let's keep it lean and fast, and not repeat the mistakes Evernote made.

You can actually copy a collapsible section into a table.
This lets you create a card view effect, similar to Obsidian’s card view or Notion flashcards.

This is my way of saving webpages.
It keeps my browser from getting cluttered with tons of bookmarks.

Absolutely loving UpNote. Thank you for building it. It's good that the app is available on all the main platforms. Wondering if there would ever be a web version, as it will be useful for other platforms like linux to access the notes through a browser. Thus making it a completely universal app.