Spotify vs Standard Notes
Based on our analysis, Standard Notes is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Spotify | Standard Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | C · 52/100 | A · 87/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (38) | Positive (90) |
| Who they share it with | Concern (40) | Positive (84) |
| What you can do | Mixed (68) | Mixed (72) |
| What they promise | Mixed (57) | Positive (82) |
Spotify tracks everything you listen to, infers your interests from your behaviour, and feeds that data into a broad advertising machine — including third-party ad partners who send them data about you too. Controls are better than most, but your listening history is kept for the life of your account with no way to stop it.
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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