Comparison
Standard Notes vs. Muninn
Two different answers to "private notes"
Standard Notes is a mature, end-to-end encrypted notes app. Your notes are encrypted on your device before they ever hit their servers — even Standard Notes can't read them. If zero-knowledge encryption is your hard requirement, it's the right choice, and Muninn isn't trying to compete on that axis.
Muninn is a private notes workspace built to be read and written by AI assistants over MCP. That trade-off means notes live on the server unencrypted so the assistant can query them — the same shape as Notion, ChatGPT memory, or a Google Doc. It's private (only you can access your notes, encrypted at rest, RLS-enforced), but it isn't zero-knowledge.
Side-by-side
| Standard Notes | Muninn | |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end encryption | Yes (zero knowledge) | No — encrypted at rest only |
| AI assistant access | Not without decrypting client-side | Yes — native MCP |
| Cross-device sync | Yes | Yes |
| Editor | Plaintext + paid extensions | Markdown web editor |
| Best for | Zero-knowledge private notes | Notes you want AI to remember |
How to choose
- Pick Standard Notes if AI assistants should never see your notes and E2EE is non-negotiable.
- Pick Muninn if the point of your notes is that Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex can read and update them.
- Use both. Truly sensitive stuff in Standard Notes; AI memory in Muninn. Two apps, one clear line between them.
What "private" means at Muninn
- Every row is scoped to your user ID by database policy.
- No content is used to train models.
- No trackers, no ads, no third-party analytics on notes.
- You can export or delete everything at any time.
See the Privacy Notice for the full details.
Related reading
Try Muninn — or if E2EE is your line, Standard Notes is genuinely great.