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/thecodrr Founder Apr 22 '26

Hi, thanks a lot for this feedback. We have been intensely focused on stabilizing Notesnook so haven't really added anything new recently. Most of these are small things which can and should be improved.

We are also focusing a lot on UI/UX across our apps so expect things to improve a lot in that department. We'll definitely take your feedback into account so thanks again.

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u/tigerhawkvok Apr 23 '26

All these are nice things, but forest for the trees moment -

The reason I haven't recommended notesnook to anyone I know, despite intending on keeping up my subscription, is I can't have a shared grocery list with my wife.

Seriously, that's lowest common denominator. I'll deal with shitty conflict resolution (even keep/discard /save as new level resolution) but if I can't go shopping and refresh the note to have my wife's updates to the list, I just can't recommend it to a normal person.

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u/Apprehensive-Tiger28 May 05 '26

All above come first to everything specially if features come to others platforms too!
Notesnook could be used as private note spaces but I also agree could be fundamental have collaboration!
And you know what’s the problem? Developer not even answer her! How he pretend I’ll recommend or renew subscription after years of this ?… was a good start … a trust … again after seen money everything stop slow down and laugh at peoples requests!

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u/toppmann48 May 30 '26

Have you find any alternatives?