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Products that do what SecNote does

E2EE Burn-After-Read Notes Stored in RAM

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Burner Note▲222
Zero knowledge self destructing notes
Jan 2026
2
Burner Note▲126
Send self destructing notes free, encrypted, open source
2021
3
Enclosed▲143
Send private and secure notes
2024
4
SafeNote 2.0▲102
Encrypt and send files and notes which self-destruct.
2019
5ME
Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL▲468
I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step. What it does: Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!) Auto-compressed with CompressionStream Plain-text editor (contenteditable) History support Page title from first # heading Respects light/dark mode No storage, cookies, or tracking The entire app is the page source. https://textarea.my/
Dec 2025 · github.com
6SB
Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust▲72
Stasher is a tiny CLI tool that lets you share encrypted secrets that burn after reading — no accounts, no logins, no servers to trust. I built it because I just wanted to share a password. Not spin up infra. Not register for some "secure" web app. Not trust Slack threads. Just send a secret. Secrets are encrypted client-side with AES-256-GCM. You get a `uuid:key` token to share. Once someone reads it, it's gone. If they don't read it in 10 minutes, it expires and deleted. Everything is verifiable. Every release is signed, SLSA-attested, SBOM-included, and logged in the Rekor transparency…
2025 · github.com
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Cryptgeon▲90
Securely share self-destructing notes
2021
8
Serenity Notes▲151
End-to-end encrypted collaborative notes app
2021
9
Dash▲122
Private, encrypted OSS notes app
2025
10
Crypto Notepad▲83
Notepad with AES encryption.
2019
11
SNote▲112
End-to-end encrypted notes, docs, data & files
2023
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SafeNote▲24
Send notes that will self-destruct after being read
2018
13
BURN.link▲170
Send secure, encrypted, self-destructing messages
2020
14
PrivaKeeper▲71
Private & Encrypted Files, Notes, Passwords, 2FAs app
2020
15
SecretNote▲3
Self-destructing encrypted messages, files & screenshots
Jul 2026 · secretnote.eu
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ScorchNote▲2
Free, end-to-end encrypted notes that burn instantly.
Jul 2026 · scorchnote.com
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YourNote▲92
Notes app that puts privacy first
2018
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BurnLink▲87
Share encrypted files that are ephemeral
Mar 2026
19
Secli▲85
A CLI to store secrets locally
2022
20
SafeNotes▲71
Securely annotate and store your PDF documents
2019
21
SecretNotes
End-to-end encrypted notes with zero-knowledge architecture.
Mar 2026
22HS
Hidetext.sh – encrypted pastebin where the server never sees the key▲7
Hi HN! I built hidetext.sh — a way to share text, code, and files through links the server can't read. How it works: your browser generates a random key and encrypts everything locally (NaCl secretbox, XSalsa20-Poly1305). Only ciphertext is uploaded. The key goes into the URL fragment — the part after # — which browsers never send to servers. The link carries the key, my server stores the locked box, and the two only meet in a browser. A design detail I'm fairly happy with: burn-after-read doesn't destroy the paste on the first HTTP request. The naive version means a Slack or iMessage link…
Jul 2026 · hidetext.sh
23OS
Open Sourcing Notesnook – an end to end encrypted private notes app▲10
2022 · github.com
24AN
A note taking application that encrypts in the browser▲58
2015 · github.com

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