Google vs Standard Notes
Based on our analysis, Standard Notes is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Standard Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | D · 26/100 | A · 87/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (8) | Positive (90) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (42) | Positive (84) |
| What you can do | Mixed (58) | Mixed (72) |
| What they promise | Mixed (55) | Positive (82) |
Google tracks almost everything you do online — every search, email, location, video, and website visit — across all their products and millions of third-party sites, then uses it to sell ads. They do give you unusually good tools to review and delete your data, but the defaults collect everything.
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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