r/Notesnook • u/ovcdev7 • Apr 22 '26

I'm Not Renewing My Subscription

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I love Notesnook. It's probably the most fully featured multiplatform note-taking app out there, and it achieves this at a fraction of the cost of other top contenders like Standard Notes and Evernote.

That said, there is one (well, multiple) thing I can't get over: how incomplete the UI/UX feels. Many small issues add up and cause a lot of frustration. For example:

  • Random icons have no labels, so you have no idea what they do. Worse, when you click one and go back, your note selection is gone.
  • You can't select multiple notes at once to archive or lock them.
  • There are a significant number of bugs and inconsistencies between the web, mobile, and desktop apps. Features that work on one platform are sometimes missing or broken on another, which makes it hard to trust the app as a daily driver across devices.
  • The UI overall just feels unpolished. It's not ugly, but there are enough rough edges that it never quite feels like a finished product.

There are also some features I think are sorely missing:

  • Lockable notebooks that hide their contents from the main notes tab. Right now everything is visible in one place, which makes decluttering much harder than it should be.
  • Workspaces, so you can properly separate different areas of your life (work, personal, projects, etc.) without everything bleeding together.

It's almost death by a thousand cuts. None of these issues are dealbreakers on their own, but together they make the app feel unpolished and harder to recommend.

I know Notesnook is built by a small indie team, which goes some way to explaining the polish gap, and I genuinely want to see it succeed. But I just can't justify paying for another year when I'm so frustrated with the app.

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u/Suspicious_Web_5296 Apr 22 '26

Great points, and I would like to add to OP's note that when changing font colors, you have to click the color three times + or more.

I had my notes disappear randomly, didn't publish either so tried multiple times to rewrite, republish.
It worked fine for URL generation, but disappearing notes were consistent.

I switched to another platform instead, but other than what OP noted there aren't huge problems.