Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”.
It also suggested that there will be no change to Standard Notes’ prices; its press release specifies that existing five-year subscriptions “will continue to be honored.”
“Standard Notes will remain an independent product and in due course both companies will open access to their products to each others’ users,” Proton added.
So does this mean paying Proton Unlimited users will get access to StandardNotes too? I’d rather not have to dish out another subscription.
Almost certainly.
That article was far more clear than their own. “Joining Forces” as they called it, could mean almost anything. But “Acquiring” Standard Notes to add to their services actually explains what’s happening.
If it follows the SimpleLogin acquisition as they implied, it’ll still be a separately branded product that’s added to a Proton Ultimate subscription. So that’s cool.
"Standard Notes will remain an independent product and in due course both companies will open access to their products to each others’ users,” Proton added.
Sounds like they plan to end up merging it all.
It’s a bit murkier, SimpleLogin remains an independent product that you can now login to with a proton account. They also added some of SimpleLogin’s features into Proton.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do a similar thing where you can login to standard notes itself with a Proton account but they also start integrating pieces of the app more closely into the Proton suite.
Had not heard of this software, interesting…
Will need to see how it compares to Notion for class notes
I used standard notes a little while ago, it seemed like a nice phone note app replacement with a decent number of markdown based plugins
I don’t think it’s trying to be a Notion or an ObsidianHave not used Standard Notes yet. How does it compare to Obsidian?
It’s more like encrypted Evernote.
It doesn’t. (Or didn’t when I used it) It really was just a basic notes app
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In a press release announcing the move, Proton emphasized the pair’s “shared values,” including the use of E2EE; a commitment to open-source technology; and how neither has relied upon venture capital to drive growth.
This includes building on its first acquisition — email alias startup SimpleLogin, which it acquired in 2022 — as well as developing and launching fully fledged password manager app Proton Pass in June.
So the company is evidently not allergic to user acquisition and other consolidation-based growth opportunities where it sees enough philosophical overlap plus the chance to deepen its technical bank.
“The deal is a strategic decision designed to benefit users by bringing to market secure, easy to use, private products that anyone can access,” Proton wrote.
“Standard Notes and Proton engineers will begin working together immediately to ensure their combined skills and experience bear fruit for users as soon as possible.”
Asked about the sustainability of pro-privacy business models that don’t rely on exploitation of user data — when so much of mainstream tech still continues to roll in the opposite, data-mining direction — Yen emphasized the need for long-term thinking by privacy startups.
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Anyone taking bets on how long before we find out some shitty thing Proton is doing that completely undermines it’s supposed privacy?
Proton Notes?
