Keep your vault as files.
Import your vault with its attachments, and its Excalidraw drawings become drawings. Wiki links, callouts and tags work as you know them, and you can keep using Obsidian on the synced folder.
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Write anything.
Write anything.
The server only sees noise.
Markdown notes, drawings and live collaboration, end-to-end encrypted. Your devices hold the keys, so the server, ours or yours, stores ciphertext and nothing else.
- Open source, AGPL
- Plain Markdown files
- Works offline
- No trackers, no ads
Weekend trip
Book the cabin by the lake
Pack sunscreen and the good kettle
Ask Alice if we can borrow the car
Leaving Friday at 17:00, back on Sunday #travel
💡 Tip The water is warm until September: bring swimsuits.
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Plays well with what you already use
- Markdown
- Obsidian
- Excalidraw
- Neovim
- VS Code
- OpenID Connect
## Write
Writes like a doc. Stays plain Markdown.
Formatting shows as you type and the syntax steps aside, so anyone can write. Underneath, every note is still a Markdown file you can open anywhere. A toolbar for the mouse, shortcuts for the keyboard, Vim keys if that's you.
- Live preview
- Tables with Tab
- Callouts
- Code in 35 languages
- @today dates
- Colors
- Images, videos & files
- Light & dark
## Draw
Sketch it out, right next to your notes.
A whiteboard with a hand-drawn look, written in Rust and built in: shapes, arrows that stay attached, sticky notes, frames and the laser pointer. Put a drawing in any note and it stays live. Draw together and see everyone's pointer.
It opens and saves Excalidraw's and Obsidian's files, so your drawings go wherever you do.
- Attached & elbow arrows
- Sticky notes
- Frames
- Saved shapes
- Draw together
- PNG & SVG
- Versions
## Together
Two laptops, one note, zero conflicts.
Share a vault with your family or your team, or a single note with anyone. Everyone edits at once with live cursors, and changes merge cleanly, even after a day offline. Comment on any passage and @mention people: their devices find the mention, the server never learns who it was.
- Live cursors
- Comments & @mentions
- Admin, editor, viewer
- Share one note
- Activity log
- Offline first
## Connect
Every note, a link away.
[[Wiki links]] that create the note you're missing, backlinks and an outline beside every note, and a graph of everything, drawings included. Jump anywhere with Ctrl P, search with tag:, folder: and title:, and catch a thought in a second with a quick note (Alt Q).
- Backlinks
- Graph
- Quick switcher
- Full-text search
- Quick notes
- Tags
- History & trash
## Your files, your tools
Your notes are a folder on your disk.
The command-line client keeps your vaults as plain Markdown files, synced both ways. Edit them in Obsidian, Neovim or VS Code while others type in the browser, and it all merges. A command line that does everything, and AI agents with their own keys that see only the vaults you share with them.
- Obsidian
- Neovim
- VS Code
- Emacs
- grep & sed
- AI agents
$ notekpr login --server https://notes.example.com Signed in as Alice: device approved. $ notekpr sync --dir ~/Notes mirroring 3 vaults into ~/Notes $ nvim ~/Notes/Family/Weekend\ trip.md # :w, and Bob sees it a second later $ notekpr --profile assistant \ write --append Assistant Digest.md < news.md updated Digest.md
~/Notes/
Family/
Weekend trip.md
Shopping list.md
Holiday steps.drawing
attachments/cabin.jpg
Work/
Roadmap.md ← any editor
## Private by design
Even we can't read your notes.
Everything is encrypted on your devices before it leaves them: note text, titles, file names, attachments, vault names, even who is looking at which note. The server, ours or yours, orders and stores ciphertext. Removing someone renews the keys, and every change is signed by the person who made it.
↓ a note, as the server stores it
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Keys stay on your devices
Your account key never leaves them. A new device is approved from one you already use, with a code to compare, or unlocked with your recovery key.
Signed, not just encrypted
The vault's owner signs who belongs to it, and every edit is signed by its author: a server can't add people or forge changes.
Honest about the rest
The server still learns sizes, timing and who shares with whom. The security page lists all of it, so you can judge for yourself.
## In the box
Everything you'd expect. Nothing that can read it.
- Live-preview editorMarkdown that formats as you type, with a toolbar, tables, task lists and optional Vim keys.
- DrawingsA hand-drawn whiteboard, drawn together and shown in your notes. Compatible with Excalidraw: opens and saves its files.
- Links, backlinks and a graph
[[Wiki links]], embeds, tags, an outline and a graph view of how notes link, all worked out on your device. - Search everywhereFull-text search with
tag:,folder:andtitle:filters, and a quick switcher. - History and trashEarlier versions of every note to preview and restore, and a trash for deleted notes — even emptying it can be undone for a while.
- Works offlineKeep writing without a connection. Changes upload and merge when you are back online.
- Comments on the textHighlight a passage and comment, like in Notion; reply, resolve, @mention someone. Viewers can comment too — still end-to-end encrypted.
- Sign in with what you haveAny OpenID Connect provider: Authelia, Keycloak, Authentik, Google and others.
- AI agents, scopedGive an assistant its own identity and only the vaults it needs. It uses the CLI or a folder of files.
- A folder of MarkdownKeep your vaults as plain files on your disk, synced both ways, for Obsidian, Neovim, VS Code or anything else.
- Never locked inExport a vault as Markdown any time, or everything as one
.zipto move to another server. - One small serverA single Rust binary and a SQLite file. Docker, Compose and Kubernetes examples included.
## Moving in
Coming from somewhere else?
Bring your notes. Keep your habits. Lose the worry about who can read them.
The ease you're used to.
A toolbar, comments with @mentions, editing together live, shared spaces with roles. Your pages come along too: export them as HTML and import the zip, databases and all. End-to-end encrypted, every page a Markdown file you own.
Capture, then connect.
Quick notes in a second, backlinks, a graph and full-text search, all worked out on your devices. Bring any folder or .zip of Markdown along.
## Pricing
Every feature, on every plan.
Nothing is held back to sell you an upgrade: the free plan has the whole app, end-to-end encrypted, like every other. Plans differ only in how much room you get, and in where notekpr runs: on our servers, on a server of your own, or on yours.
On our servers
Sign up and start writing; we keep it running, up to date and backed up. Plans give you more vaults, and more personal storage for your quick notes. Every vault is the same on every plan:
- 1 GB of room
- 20 drawings
- files up to 50 MB
Free
For your own notes, and for trying it out
€0
Every feature included
- 1 vault
- 512 MB personal storage
- 20 quick notes
- 1.5 GB in all
Plus
For people who write every day
€5 / month
or €50 a year: two months free
- 3 vaults
- 1 GB personal storage
- Unlimited quick notes
- 4 GB in all
Family
Everyone at home, one plan
€15 / month
or €150 a year: two months free
- Up to 6 people
- 3 vaults each
- 1 GB personal storage each
- Unlimited quick notes
- Up to 24 GB in all
Add just what you need
Need more of one thing? Add a yearly pack to Free, Plus or Family, without changing plans.
- + vaults
- + personal storage
- + quick notes
- + room for a vault
- + drawings for a vault
A server of your own
For anyone who wants more independence: just you, your family, or your team, school or company. A notekpr server with nobody else on it, your own address and your own sign-in — on ours, or on yours.
Custom
Your own server, on ours
from €25 / month
or €250 a year: two months free
- 6 people and 30 GB included
- €4 a month for each person more, with 5 GB more room
- €2 a month for each 10 GB more
- Unlimited vaults, drawings and quick notes
- One pool of storage everyone shares
- Files as large as you need
- Your own domain and sign-in (SSO)
- We run it, update it and back it up
€25 a month, or €250 a year · 30 GB in all
Managed
Your own server, on yours
Let's talk
A quote for your setup
- On your servers or your cloud
- We set it up, update it and back it up
- As many people as you need
- Limits and storage you decide
- Your own domain
- Your own sign-in (SSO)
€0
Rather run it yourself? Every feature, no limits but the ones you set: one Rust binary and a SQLite file, open source under the AGPL.
Self-hosting guideHosted plans aren't open yet, and details may still change before they are. Until then, try the demo. Prices exclude VAT.
## Questions
Fair questions.
Can you read my notes?
No. Note text, titles, file and folder names, attachments and vault names are encrypted on your devices with keys the server never gets, on our servers and on yours alike. The server does learn some metadata, such as sizes, timing and who shares with whom; the security page lists exactly what.
Is anything kept for paying plans?
No. Every plan, Free included, has every feature: the editor, drawings, sharing and editing together, comments, history, offline use, the command line and AI agents. Paying gets you more room, or a server of your own. Hosting it yourself, the only limits are the ones you set.
Can I try it first?
Yes: the demo has people, shared vaults and notes in it already. Sign in as alice or bob, or any name, then open a second tab as someone else and edit together. Anyone can sign in as anyone there, and it starts over every hour, so keep nothing of yours in it.
What if I lose my phone and my laptop?
Your recovery key, shown once when you set up, unlocks your account on a new device. Otherwise, new devices are approved from one you already use.
Can I take my notes and leave?
Any time. Export a vault as Markdown, keep a synced folder of files on your disk, or export everything as one .zip and import it on another server: ours to yours, or back. Even without notekpr, an export and your recovery key are all you need to get your notes out as Markdown files.
Is it really open source?
Yes, all of it, the server, the web app and the command-line client, under the AGPL. Read it, run it, check it: the docs explain how it's built and why.
Does it work with Obsidian?
Yes. The command-line client keeps your vaults as a folder of Markdown that Obsidian opens as a vault, synced both ways. Importing an Obsidian vault brings its attachments and turns its Excalidraw drawings into drawings.
Does it work offline?
Yes. The browser keeps an encrypted copy of your vaults, and what you write offline syncs and merges when you are back.
Is it ready?
It's young, and it works: it is tested end to end, and known issues are tracked in the open. Hosted plans open soon; today you can try the demo or host it yourself. Keep backups of what matters, as with any new tool.