Joplin

This app together with Dropbox has some serious potential to kick Evernote and Standard Notes to the curb, if you want an app with native markdown support, cross-platform support, and end-to-end encryption, give Joplin a try. If the iOS user interface was on par with the Windows interface, and you could share files to and from Joplin in iOS, it would eclipse other markup-based note taking applications. If this iOS experience were on par with Windows, I would give it 5 stars.

Congratulations to the coding team behind Joplin. They managed to create a note-taking/journaling solution that can fill what I perceived as a long-standing "gap": the ability to sync between the iPad and the Macbook without having to go through the cloud. For those who value privacy this is a terrific development. As some pointed out already the ios app is bare-bones visually speaking, and not iOS-flavored. But it has a lot of functionality! And I am sure that the looks will improve with subsequent releases. ps. It is so good, I already migrated 1.5 years of note-taking from Agenda to Joplin.

Joplin is amazing on Desktop, but the mobile version is behind. It has improved a bit over the last couple of years, but I wish it were more of a mobile-first project. Syncing works very well with NextCloud. It would be nice if there font options for the rendered view. Dark mode doesn't look right on iPhone 11 Max. There are random white squares at the top and bottom. Overall just feels a bit wonky still and not polished. The beta editor is bizarre. The rendered view goes away and is replaced with a tiny preview window and difficult to use shortcut buttons. I wish there was simply edit/view/WYSIWYG views you could switch between and just add the shortcut buttons to the markdown editor view. Joplin could take some UI/UX cues from the Notebooks app. This might come down to Joplin being react native vs an actual iOS app. Notebooks is superior in experience, but Joplin is superior in privacy/security, sync, and web clipping/API features. I'm stuck between the two!

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I love the syncing features, but the interface for entering text is so buggy, the app is pretty much unusable, except for reading notes entered elsewhere. Sometimes when I type, everything randomly comes out all-caps. Auto-correct does not work at all, and predictive text sees each letter as a separate word. Using dictation works - but only one word at a time. : / This is the only app I’ve ever encountered on the iPhone that has such a remarkably troubled interface for simply entering text. Right now the only way to use it is to enter text in Apple Notes (or any other app, really), copy it, and paste it into Joplin. I hope this improves, but for now, I’ll need to use another app.

I'm using it with Nextcloud on my iPhone and Macbook...it's awesome. I've run into a couple bugs and the GUI could be a little nicer but Joplin honestly has all the features that I was looking for. If you take privacy seriously and want a full-featured, cross-platform notes app this is for you. Feature Request: The web clipper extension is one of my favorite features on desktop and I would love to see it implemented on IOS. If I could save web pages to Joplin on my phone I wouldn't need Pocket anymore.