End-to-end encrypted

Your notes, private by design.

Notewright is a fast, local-first writing app. Your notes live on your devices and sync end-to-end encrypted — readable only by you, never by us.

No credit card. Free forever for a single device.

Morning pages

Edited just now · end-to-end encrypted

Shipped the sync rewrite last night. Notes open instantly now — they’re already on the device; sync just reconciles in the background.

  • Write the migration notes
  • Ship background sync
  • Draft the changelog

#journal #shiplog

Synced to MacBook & iPhone · 2 seconds ago

Built around three ideas

Fast because it’s local. Private because it’s encrypted. Yours because it’s portable.

Local-first speed

Every note opens instantly — it’s already on your device. The network is an optimization, not a dependency. Works fully offline.

End-to-end encryption

Notes are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. We sync ciphertext we can’t read — your key never touches our servers.

Plain markdown

Just text you own. Headings, lists, checklists, links and code — exportable any time. No lock-in, no proprietary blobs.

How sync stays private

Most apps encrypt notes in transit and read them on the server. Notewright never can.

Your Macencrypts here
Your iPhonedecrypts here

1 · Encrypt on device

A key derived from your passphrase encrypts each note locally. The key stays on your devices.

2 · Sync ciphertext

Only encrypted blobs travel to our relay. We store them, we route them — we can’t open them.

3 · Decrypt anywhere

Sign in on a new device, enter your passphrase, and your library reassembles — readable only there.

Try it in your browser — no install

Create an account and start writing. Your first notes are ready in seconds.

“I moved three years of journaling into Notewright in an afternoon. It’s the first sync app I actually trust with the private stuff.”

MK
Mara K.Writer

“Opens instantly, works on the train with no signal, and I love that the server literally can’t read my notes.”

DR
Devin R.Software engineer