Joplin

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Description of App

Joplin is a open source note taking, Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.

Privacy-first app

Capture your thoughts freely and without distractions, tracking, or ads. With Joplin’s end-to-end encryption and open-source code, you can concentrate on your ideas and tasks without worrying about your privacy.

Capture multimedia notes

Capture multimedia notes effortlessly. In Joplin you can :

• create manuscript notes, • transcribe speech to note, • add multimedia: photos, videos, PDFs, and images, • insert documents as attachments, • create math expressions, add tables, write code and insert diagrams, • create to-dos and add reminders. Organise your ideas

Organise your notes into notebooks. Connect your notes with tags by subject or priority. Use colours and rich text editor to format your notes with ease. Make task lists, create to-dos and add reminders. Effortlessly find your notes, even within PDFs and images, thanks to the powerful search feature enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Use Joplin to store your bills, lecture notes, photos or receipts.

Reliable synchronisation

Access your notes from computer, phone or tablet by synchronising with various services including Joplin Cloud, Dropbox and OneDrive. Seamlessly move from one device to another.

Offline-first

You can access your notes anytime and anywhere, even without Internet. If you’re using Joplin on multiple devices, they will synchronise and update once you regained the connection.

Enhance your productivity across devices

Extend your note-taking experience by using Joplin on additional devices such as a desktop computer or tablet. Make the most of each device by using its specific features. On the desktop app, use a web clipper extension, wide-range of community plugins and a Markdown editor. Experience flawless handwriting and drawing on your tablet.

Join active community

Connect with Joplin’s vibrant community on Joplin Forum. It’s a place where users can share ideas, ask questions, exchange information and give feedback. Joplin’s dynamic community also develops powerful plugins, so you can customise your app to suit your needs.

Version

13.2.5

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

iOS 18.4

Accessibility Comments

Joplen is 100% accessible with VoiceOver. The developers care a lot about accessibility with this app. Also there is something that VoiceOver cannot read when you open a note and will recognize it as a downward pointing facing triangle symbol. But other than that, the app is usable with voiceOver.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.

Other Comments

I really like this app. Once you finish editing your note and when you go back to it, VoiceOver will read everything in HTML format and will read everything in headings if you have headings added to your notes.

Recommendations

5 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Justice 14 hours 56 minutes ago

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Comments

By Travis Roth on Monday, March 31, 2025 - 02:42

You're right Joplin is a nice app. I hate to be that guy... Will you please edit the title of this entry to spell the app name correctly: "Joplin" so that people can find it if they search? Thanks.

By allabtech on Monday, March 31, 2025 - 02:42

Thank you for that. I changed the spelling eof it.

By KE8UPE on Monday, March 31, 2025 - 13:42

Hi,
I was planning to post this app, but someone beat me to it.

I love this app & wish I would've known about it when I was in college. This amazing app is available on all platforforms:
iOS, MacOS, Android & even Linux.

It works with Orca on Slint, but not Fedora.
It works well on the BrailleSense, although, it crashes in the middle of the initial sync.

By KE8UPE on Monday, March 31, 2025 - 15:42

Hi,
The down pointing triangle, which Voiceover actually does describe, is the notebook chooser. If you're writing a note & it ends up in the wrong place, just open the note, double-tap that button & select the new notebook.
The developers are Mastodon. I communicate with them regularly.

By Dennis Long on Monday, March 31, 2025 - 15:42

@ KE8UPE
I did message them on Mastodon and ask them to fix it. We'll see if it gets fixed. Hopefully it does. If you could do the same that would be awesome.

By Dennis Long on Monday, March 31, 2025 - 18:42

If it is a notebook it should be labeled as such. also after I tapped on it voiceover said nothing.

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 02:59

Hello! I have 3 questions, and, a resource!
ACB. Main Menu did a presentation about Joplin, and, that's how I first heard of this, it's on ACB. Media as a podcast for anyone that wayts to go look at it. Sadly, I've not had a lot of time to listen to it all the way through. But, I have 3 questions.

1. I've been on the hunt for a notetaking app, but, one of the requirements that I have, is that it either has to write in TXT. format, or be aeale to be exported to TXT. format. Can this app do either of those things?
2. First, I'm sorry if this has been asked on here before. But, one thing I did hear about Joplin, is that it supports markdown. i've thought off and on again about learning markdown, and, this app has me thinking about learning it again. My question is, where can I go to learn markdown? Are there any tutorials, podcasts, that I could listen to? Any books?
3. Can Joplin notes be exported to other formats, and if so, which other formats?

Sorry for my ignorance. But, I've been looking for anote-taking/wordprocessor app that is a little better than Voice Dream Writer, in the sense that it has some features that Voice Dream Writer lacks, like folders, etc. However, exportability is an essential because, I work with a disabled advocate who needs things in TXT. and, I do as well, because, I put docs, etc on my braille display, and, my Brailliant BI. 40X. supports TXT. best.
sorry for my ignorance once again. TIA! :-)

By TheBlindDragon on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 06:56

thank you so much for posting this app! I'm a college student, and I've been searching for a very good, and completely accessible note taking app for my phone. also I love the fact that Joplin supports Markdown, so I can type # and it'll create a heading level 1. That's what I loved about Ulysses when I was trying it out. I was using SimpleNote for a week or so, until I found Joplin on the AppleVis newsletter. we should get the developer on this forum. :)

By TheBlindDragon on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 07:07

so they must have updated the app, because now the right triangle button says right triangle plus notebook name! and they have a beautiful VoiceOver hint: Selects notebook drop down. (not exact wording but that's basically what says.)

By Dennis Long on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 09:38

I tried it if I open it there is no way to go back I wish they had things like delete as voiceover actions but it is clear they care very much about accessibility. I could see me using this.