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24 alternatives to Symbol

Daily notes app without authorization & cloud storage

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Symbol launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Material Notes▲169
Simple no hassle notes app in a beautiful material design
2017 · its alternatives →
2
Really Simple Notes▲69
Simple, plain-text notes with offline saving
2022 · its alternatives →
3
Jot▲235
The no-fuss way to take notes
2018 · its alternatives →
4
Manifest▲248
A simple grid-based pinboard for note taking.
2020 · its alternatives →
5
YourNote▲92
Notes app that puts privacy first
2018 · its alternatives →
6
Dumbnote▲141
Offline-first Markdown note app. No lock-in. Just write.
2025 · dumbnote.app · its alternatives →
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Umbrella Note – Simple app for notes and journals▲71
2018 · umbrellanote.com · its alternatives →
8
Sticky Notes▲85
Quickly jot down notes for easy access
2021 · its alternatives →
9
UpNote▲161
The most pleasant app for writing and organizing notes
2020 · its alternatives →
10
Paper▲111
🚀 An offline note taking app with "networkless" sharing
2019 · its alternatives →
11
Browser Notes▲128
Your ideas, organized - not uploaded
Jul 2026 · browsernotes.xyz · its alternatives →
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Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first▲136
Look, every journaling app out there wants you to organize things into folders and tags and templates. I just wanted to write something down every day. So I built this. One note per day. That's the whole deal. - Can't edit yesterday. What's done is done. Keeps you from fussing over old entries instead of writing today's. - Year view with dots showing which days you actually wrote. It's a streak chart. Works better than it should. - No signup required. Opens right up, stores everything locally in your browser. Optional cloud sync if you want it - E2E encrypted with AES-GCM, zero-knowledge,…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
13
Noteful▲80
Notes with folders
2021 · its alternatives →
14
Digital Notes▲62
Note taking with ease
2022 · its alternatives →
15
Take Notes▲78
Handwritten notes made easy
2021 · its alternatives →
16
Bond▲93
Beautiful Notes Made Easy
2017 · its alternatives →
17
Neum Notes▲83
A simple neumorphic notes app
2020 · its alternatives →
18
Notes Keeper▲32
Create notes, memos and to-do lists in no time
2021 · its alternatives →
19
Justnote▲65
A privacy-focused note taking app
2022 · its alternatives →
20NM
Note, my simple command-line note taking app▲81
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Cryptware Notes▲60
A simple and minimalistic notepad app
2022 · its alternatives →
22
Note Canvas▲68
Have FUN writing notes--text, flashcards, and other objects.
2021 · its alternatives →
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DailyNote – one-note-per-day app with local-first encryption▲5
Hi HN and Happy New Year! I built DailyNote, a minimalist daily notes app: one note per day, a year-at-a-glance calendar, and local-first storage. The interesting bit is the encryption + sync model: - Notes are always encrypted locally before syncing to Supabase. - A dedicated data key (DEK) encrypts notes; your password only wraps that DEK (KEK). - So when you change your password, it just re-wraps the DEK — no re-encryption of note data. I built the whole project in one day using Claude + Codex with a spec‑driven approach (tight PRD → implementation). It’s React/TypeScript, IndexedDB…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app▲32
2021 · notesnook.com · its alternatives →

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