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PrivacyNotes

End-to-end encrypted notes, tasks, and journal.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

PrivacyNotes is a password manager, available on Windows.

Features described in its Winget manifest and on its official website: end-to-end encryption, data encryption, attachments and Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “End-to-end encrypted notes, tasks, and journal” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “End-to-end encrypted notes, tasks, and journal” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Notes, journal entries, tasks, a password vault and file attachments are encrypted on your device with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before they sync, and the server stores only ciphertext and a nonce.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Notes, journal entries, tasks, a password vault and file attachments are encrypted on your device with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before they sync, and the server stores only ciphertext and a nonce.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Importers read exports from Evernote, Apple Notes, Apple Journal, Obsidian, Notesnook, Standard Notes, Simplenote, Google Keep, Samsung Notes, Bitwarden and plain Markdown, and every one of them is parsed on your device.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

PrivacyNotes is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 10 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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