Myne

Your notes.
Sealed.

Myne is a privacy-first markdown notes app that encrypts every byte before it leaves your device, asks for no email, and stores only ciphertext at rest — quietly, by default.

The Myne desktop app with a note open in the editor, the note list and folders beside it on the left, and the note's links and backlinks on the right. The Myne desktop app with a note open in the editor, the note list and folders beside it on the left, and the note's links and backlinks on the right.
Myne on a phone: a note with tags and a to-do list. Myne on a phone: a note with tags and a to-do list.

We can't read your notes. The server can't. We didn't build a way to. That is the entire point.

Features

Read it, link it, share it. Sealed underneath.

The parts a folder of markdown files cannot do on its own, and the encryption that covers all of them.

01 · Collaboration Live cursors in a shared vault Invite someone into one vault. You see their cursor, their selection and their name while you both write; the frames are sealed end to end and are never stored. Read more 02 · Agents A model that works inside the vault Ask across everything you have written, or have it propose a change you approve before any note moves. Beta, and off until you turn it on. Read more 03 · Meeting notes Record the room, on your device One session captures your microphone and, on macOS 14.2 and later, what the computer is playing, then transcribes it locally into a new note with the audio attached. Behind Developer mode while its recording path is verified. Read more 04 · Encryption Sealed on your device Argon2id turns your password into a key that never leaves the machine, and XChaCha20-Poly1305 seals every byte before it touches disk. Read more 05 · Graph Links, and the shape they make Backlinks and unlinked mentions on the note, and the whole vault as a map: every note a dot, every resolved link a line. Read more 06 · Search Search that stays local Full text, tags, properties and saved views, answered from an index on your own machine. Read more 07 · Sync server Run the server yourself The sync server is open source and ships as a container image, so you can run it on a machine you control. It holds ciphertext and no keys, whoever operates it. Read more
Every feature
Why not the workarounds

The stack you're duct-taping, in one app.

Feature comparison: Myne against Obsidian, Standard Notes, Joplin and Notesnook, at each tool's default configuration.
Feature Myne Obsidian Standard Notes Joplin Notesnook

Each tool is judged at its default configuration, from its own documentation, in October 2026. Partial means a claim that holds with a condition, or one Myne still owes: on the Myne column those are zero-knowledge sync (in hardening, on a server you run yourself, since Myne offers no hosted instance), self-hosted sync (the same server, published as a container image), meeting recording (behind Developer mode while its capture path is verified) and signed builds (macOS notarized, Android OS-verified, Windows and Linux unsigned). No vendor here publishes a reproducible build, so that is not scored.

Frequently asked
questions

No vault is worth much if you can't understand it. Straight answers, including the uncomfortable ones.

The user guide takes the same ground step by step: your first unlock, a note from nothing, turning sync on, and getting the whole vault back out as plain files.

Open the user guide

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Write like no one's watching.
Because no one else can read a word.

Your notes deserve more than a privacy policy. In Myne the encryption is always on, and it never asks you to do anything.

Read the spec View source
vault · on disk sealed
  • vault.meta NTV5 318 B
  • vault.prefs MYP5 264 B
  • notes/0184a2b3-… NC05 1.4 kB
  • notes/0184a2b4-… NC05 962 B
  • attachments/a71b4e… MYA5 2.6 MB

notes/ is flat · no titles, no folder names, no text