# UpNote - notes, diary, journal

> The most pleasant app for writing and organizing notes

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.getupnote.android](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.getupnote.android)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.getupnote.android`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** UpNote LLC
- **Category:** PRODUCTIVITY
- **Downloads:** 489,601
- **Rating:** 4.79 / 5 (20,846 ratings)
- **Version:** 9.22.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-26
- **First published:** 2021-04-12
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 27 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getupnote.android)
- **Website:** [https://getupnote.com/](https://getupnote.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://getupnote.com/privacy.html](https://getupnote.com/privacy.html)

## Description

UpNote is a beautifully designed note-taking app that works smoothly on iOS, Mac, Windows, and Android. It offers a clean and minimal interface with customizable fonts and themes, enabling a focused and distraction-free writing experience through features like focus and typewriter modes.

With powerful organizational tools such as notebooks, pinning, bookmarking, and linking notes, UpNote keeps your ideas neat and accessible. It also supports rich formatting, markdown shortcuts, and exporting to Markdown, PDF, or HTML. The app ensures privacy with locking options and syncs your notes instantly on all devices, offering offline access as well. Upgrade to Premium for added functionalities like unlimited notes, attachments, and advanced export options. Discover UpNote for a pleasant and efficient way to capture and manage your thoughts, tasks, diaries, and journals.

## Rankings

- #101,225 — Overall
- #192 — Productivity (Gross)

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC`
- `android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.getupnote.android.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`

## Review summary

Users praise UpNote for its simple, intuitive UI, strong organizational features with folders and notebooks, reliable cross-device syncing, and the option for a lifetime purchase. Many see it as a lean, effective Evernote alternative. However, a subset of users reports reliability hiccups, such as loading screens or notes not saving after switching devices. Pricing concerns also surface, particularly around free-tier limits and the desire for clearer, more flexible access. Overall, UpNote is highly regarded for organization, speed, and cross-platform use, with some reliability and pricing caveats.

### Pros

- Easy to use and intuitive UI
- Strong folder-based organization (notebooks, subfolders, photo folder structure)
- Cross-device syncing and cloud storage (works across PC and Android)
- Lifetime/one-time purchase value
- Evernote-like but lean with a robust feature set

### Cons

- Reliability issues reported by some users (loading screens, notes not saving after switching devices)
- Pricing and free-tier limitations / desire for clearer, more flexible access

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.getupnote.android)