Standard Notes

Simple and private notes app. Protect your privacy while getting more done. That's Standard Notes.

Active Last commit on 2026-11-02 · 235 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars: 6.7k
Last commit: 2026-11-02
Latest release: @standardnotes/[email protected]
2026-11-02
Commits (12 mo): 235
Releases (12 mo): –
License: GPL-3.0
Language / platform: Ruby

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit on 2026-11-02 · 235 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).

Run Standard Notes yourself

RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
Docker: not detected — install from source or packages

Estimated monthly server cost

Provider	Plan size	~ USD / month
Vultr	1 GB	$5	Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)	1 GB	$5	Deploy →
DigitalOcean	1 GB	$6	Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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