The journal that
nobody else
can read

It means your notes are scrambled into unreadable code on your device before being sent anywhere. The only person who can unscramble them is you, when you sign in. Even we can't read what you've written — and neither can Evernote, Notion, Apple, Google, or anyone else.

Technically, yes. All of those apps store your notes in plain text on their own servers. Their engineers have administrator access to that data. It's not that they're necessarily reading your notes — but they could. And if their servers are ever hacked, your most private thoughts could end up in the hands of strangers. Free Notes makes both of those things impossible by encrypting your notes before they ever leave your device.

They could — it's not technically difficult. But encryption would break their business model. Apps like Evernote, Notion, and Google Keep are not really note-taking companies. They are data companies that offer note-taking as a way to collect information about you. To serve targeted features, train AI models, and in many cases inform advertising, they need to be able to read your content. Encrypted notes are worthless to them. Evernote even had a scandal where they quietly updated their privacy policy to allow employees to read user notes for "quality control" — they reversed it after public outcry, but the intent was revealing. Free Notes charges a straightforward subscription fee instead of monetising your data. That's the only business model that makes genuine privacy possible.

No. Free Notes works entirely in your web browser. Just go to freenotes.me, sign in, and write. Nothing to install, ever.

No. Your journal is private to your Google account. Not us, not anyone. Only you can access it.

You can cancel any time by visiting your billing page here. Sign in with the email address you used to subscribe, and you can cancel with one click. You'll keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for.

You can cancel any time. You'll keep access until the end of your current billing period. After that, you won't be charged again.

Yes — a Google account is how we keep your journal private and synced across your devices. If you have a Gmail address, you already have one. If not, creating a free Google account takes about two minutes at google.com.

Yes, always. Because your journal is stored in the cloud and tied to your Google account, just sign in on any device and everything is exactly as you left it.

Yes! On iPhone or iPad, open Free Notes in Safari, tap the Share button, and choose "Add to Home Screen". It'll sit on your home screen like any other app. Android works the same way in Chrome.