Looks and works like Windows Notepad. Adds the things it should have had years ago — multiple tabs, dark mode, markdown, shareable links, and full offline support. No signup. No ads. Your notes never leave your device.
Loads faster than every other online notepad. The cursor is in the textarea before you can blink.
Keep separate notes open at the same time, just like Windows Notepad. Each one autosaves independently.
A real dark mode that follows your system or toggles with one click. Easy on the eyes at 2 a.m.
Write in plain text or markdown. Toggle live preview when you want to see the formatted version.
Generate a link that contains your note inside the URL itself. No accounts, no server storage. Pure privacy.
Install it as an app or just bookmark it. Once visited, it works without an internet connection.
Your notes live in your browser's local storage. They never touch a server unless you choose to share.
No popups, no banners, no tracking. Just a notepad that does its job and gets out of your way.
Most online notepads ask you to trust them with your text. We took the opposite approach: build the notepad so we can't see your notes even if we wanted to. Here's exactly how that works, in technical detail you can verify yourself.
Everything you type is saved to your browser's localStorage, which is sandboxed to your domain and your device. Open the browser's DevTools → Application → Local Storage to see your own notes exactly as we store them. There is no network request that uploads them. There is no server-side database of notes.
The site is served over HTTPS only. HTTP requests redirect automatically. Strict Transport Security (HSTS) tells your browser to never accept an unencrypted connection again. We support TLS 1.3 with modern cipher suites.
Our Content-Security-Policy header blocks any script, style, or image from a domain we don't control. That means even if an attacker compromised our hosting, they couldn't silently inject a tracker or keylogger — the browser would refuse to run it.
Zero requests to ad networks, analytics platforms, font CDNs, or social widgets. Open DevTools → Network and load the page. Every single request goes to our domain only. Nothing else is loaded.
When you generate a share link, the note is encoded into the URL after the # fragment. By web standard, browsers never transmit the fragment to the server. The recipient's browser decodes it locally. We literally cannot log what's in shared links.
We don't set tracking cookies. We don't fingerprint your browser. The only browser storage we use is localStorage — the same place every web app stores user preferences — and it holds only your notes, plus your theme and font-size choices.
After your first visit, the notepad works without an internet connection. The service worker caches the entire app locally. This means we can't snoop on traffic that isn't happening, and you don't lose access if our server goes down.
Because notes live in your browser, clearing your browser data deletes them. If you use a shared computer, anyone who can open your browser can see your notes. For critical information, use Ctrl+S to download a backup. We'd rather tell you the truth than oversell the privacy.
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| Feature | This notepad | OnlineNotepad.org | aNotepad |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loads instantly, no signup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple notes | Tabs | Sidebar | Sidebar |
| Find & replace | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Insert special characters & emoji | Yes | Yes | No |
| Backup all notes | Yes (JSON) | Yes | No |
| Sort notes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Fullscreen mode | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dark mode | Yes | No | Yes |
| Markdown preview | Yes | No | No |
| Shareable links | Yes (no server) | No | Yes (server) |
| Works offline (PWA) | Yes | No | No |
| No ads | Yes | No | No |
| Notes stay on your device | Yes | Yes | No |
Yes. Completely free, with no ads, no signup, and no usage limits. It's funded by nothing — it's a free utility.
Yes. The site is served over HTTPS, your notes are saved locally in your own browser (not on our servers), we set no tracking cookies, and we load no third-party scripts. You can verify everything in your browser's DevTools — open the Network tab and reload the page; every request goes to our domain only.
In your browser's localStorage, under our domain only. You can see them yourself: open DevTools (F12) → Application → Local Storage → our domain. The data is sandboxed by the browser to our origin, meaning no other website can read it.
No. Your notes are never transmitted to our servers — they're saved entirely client-side. Even when you share a link, the note content lives in the URL fragment (the part after #), which by web standard is never sent to a server.
Yes. Every keystroke is saved to your browser's local storage instantly. Close the tab and come back — your notes are still there.
Yes. Notes never leave your device by default. They are stored in your browser's local storage, not on any server. We don't have access to them, even in principle.
Yes. Click File → Share link and a URL is generated that contains your note encoded inside the link itself. Anyone with the link can read it. The content still never touches our servers.
Your notes will be deleted along with everything else, because they live in your browser. For anything important, use Ctrl+S to download a copy, or File → Backup all notes to export everything as a JSON file you can restore later.
Yes. After your first visit, the notepad works fully offline. You can also install it as a Progressive Web App.
Yes. Open as many tabs as you want, just like Windows Notepad. Each tab autosaves independently.
Yes. The notepad respects your system preference and includes a manual toggle in the View menu (or press Ctrl+D).
All the standard ones plus a few extras: Ctrl+T (new tab), Ctrl+W (close tab), Ctrl+S (save), Ctrl+O (open), Ctrl+F (find), Ctrl+H (replace), Ctrl+Z/Y (undo/redo), Ctrl+X/C/V (cut/copy/paste), Ctrl+A (select all), Ctrl+L (share), Ctrl+M (markdown preview), Ctrl+D (dark mode), Ctrl+Shift+C (special characters), Ctrl+Shift+E (emoji), F5 (insert date/time), F11 (fullscreen).