I have a love/hate relationship with Standard Notes (and with most encrypted editors in general).
Standard Notes is one of the few apps that has end-to-end encrytion AND password protection on the desktop (or Face ID on mobile devices). Joplin is E2E but refuses to encrypt locally, meaning someone who browses your computer can view your notes unless you use Joplin Portable in an encrypted container (with the added performance overhead).
However, compared to Joplin, uploading images to notes is a pain. Standard Notes has multiple text editor options and they all suck. Only the "bold" editor allows you to upload images, and using FileSafe is extremely fiddly. Personally I would rather have one really good text editor than a bunch of half-baked ones.
But Joplin is sluggish compared to both Standard Notes and Obsidian.md. Obsidian.md has the benefit of having everything as plain text files, for easy editing in other apps (there's also no need to export anything if they go out of business compared to Standard Notes/Joplin). But Obsidian's mobile app is still in development, and I'm a bit iffy about buying another subscription just for encrypted sync.
...And, if open source doesn't matter to you, there's always Microsoft OneNote.
> But Obsidian's mobile app is still in development, and I'm a bit iffy about buying another subscription just for encrypted sync.
Obsidian's pricing seems a bit weird to be in general, in that its publish/hosting functionality is priced around individual workspaces rather than either users or total usage.
Because of that I'm never going to actually use said publish functionality (even though I would have paid for it in an instant if it was set up differently), because my use cases for it would involve publishing from a number of different small workspaces for entirely different audiences, and the devs apparently haven't considered at all that people may want to do that.
You should give Notesnook[1](i am the developer) a try as well. It should solve most, if not all, of the above issues and its cheaper than every other notes app out there as well.
> What happens to note access when off subscription?
Nothing at all. You can still edit and access them as normal. There's no limit on the amount of notes you can make on the free tier.
> is dark mode an option on the free tier?
Yep.
As for the subscription model, it's necessary to support development of a Web & mobile app where versioning is much harder as opposed to a desktop version.
Standard Notes is one of the few apps that has end-to-end encrytion AND password protection on the desktop (or Face ID on mobile devices). Joplin is E2E but refuses to encrypt locally, meaning someone who browses your computer can view your notes unless you use Joplin Portable in an encrypted container (with the added performance overhead).
However, compared to Joplin, uploading images to notes is a pain. Standard Notes has multiple text editor options and they all suck. Only the "bold" editor allows you to upload images, and using FileSafe is extremely fiddly. Personally I would rather have one really good text editor than a bunch of half-baked ones.
But Joplin is sluggish compared to both Standard Notes and Obsidian.md. Obsidian.md has the benefit of having everything as plain text files, for easy editing in other apps (there's also no need to export anything if they go out of business compared to Standard Notes/Joplin). But Obsidian's mobile app is still in development, and I'm a bit iffy about buying another subscription just for encrypted sync.
...And, if open source doesn't matter to you, there's always Microsoft OneNote.