Fairphone vs Standard Notes
Based on our analysis, Standard Notes is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Fairphone | Standard Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | B- · 68/100 | A · 87/100 |
| What they collect | Mixed (65) | Positive (90) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (72) | Positive (84) |
| What you can do | Mixed (63) | Mixed (72) |
| What they promise | Mixed (68) | Positive (82) |
Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.
View full analysis →Standard Notes is an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app that genuinely cannot read your notes; analytics are self-hosted via Plausible with no IP retention, apps collect zero usage data or location, and the subprocessor list is short and transparent — the main weaknesses are US jurisdiction and AWS hosting, the absence of published security audit reports, a thin policy that lacks GDPR rights language, and email marketing enabled by default.
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