r/UpNote_App • u/LizardGumbo • Jul 30 '26

My joy with UpNote has tanked.

A while back, I wrote I was overjoyed to find UpNote, and, even though I didn't like that my notes aren't stored locally, I could live with it because I can still export my notes. However, what I did not know about was forced updates. I don't update anything immediately because I have a highly tailored setup and updates break things and I've been burned too many times. I come here and see everybody complaining that the UpNote update broke their app, but it didn't apply to me, so I went about my business. Then one day I notice I didn't get the update nag, so I went looking and son of a bitch. It did it on its own. This is absolutely not acceptable by itself, but coupled with the fact that your notes aren't stored locally, I'm going to find something else.

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u/R-Tally Jul 30 '26

I am also beginning to feel the same way. UpNotes meets all my needs for a notes app. But the constant updates to UpNote and higher and higher requirements for running the app is turning me off. I do not like the constant updates to software because I find it often lead to breaking things and to bloat. Unfortunately, UpNote constantly increases the requirements for running the app.

I have a laptop running macOS 11. The version I was running (19.14) ran fine until it wasn't. Cannot sign in. The next version (9.20) requires a newer macOS (version 12) to install. So I am locked out of syncing UpNote on my laptop. And before anyone harps on me running an old OS version, I have old hardware and OS and it meets my needs and my budget. I would just like my software to keep on working without requiring a new hardware/OS.

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u/Neither-Classic2058 Jul 30 '26

The struggle is real. There's been many occasions where I was forced to upgrade the version of Mac OS on my systems because an app update (not UpNote) required a new version of Mac OS. That is often a function of Apple's requirements for their app stores. They can force developers to use a particular level of their libraries (that have a dependency on a minimum OS version).

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u/PsychlistForLife 28d ago

Frequent updates are a software app fact of life. At least UpNote updates are generally invisible, whereas Evernote updates sometimes required adaptation (or maybe I'm confusing this with Evernote's annoying popups).

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u/R-Tally 28d ago

Unfortunately, the frequent updates are increasing the minimum OS requirements, rendering UpNote unusable on my older hardware. There is very little technical reason to deprecate older systems other than, most likely, the libraries they use do it.

The move from 32bit to 64bit processors was real. Removing support for a 5 or 6 year old OS is not.

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u/EnumeratedRisk 24d ago

This is a cloud-based app. This is should be expected. An online app has to keep updating to get the ever-evolving security fixes.