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onlinenotepad.app
Free online notepad. No signup, no ads, no tracking.
OnlineNotepad.app is a free browser notepad for anyone who just wants to write something down — no signup wall, no cookie banner, no wondering where their text goes. It works like the Notepad you know, plus tabs, dark mode, markdown, line numbers, word count, and shareable links. Lock notes with AES-256 encryption and work fully offline as a PWA. Your notes stay in your browser's local storage — never on a server. No account, no ads, no tracking. Verify it in DevTools in under a minute.
Hey everyone
A few months ago I tried to find a quick online notepad to jot down two API keys while switching between machines. The first result took four seconds to load and asked me to consent to 412 advertising partners. The second had ads inside the textarea. The third quietly POSTed every keystroke to a server I'd never heard of.
I just wanted Notepad. The thing that ships with Windows. So I built one.
OnlineNotepad.app is what I think an online notepad should be in 2026:
→ Loads instantly. Cursor is in the textarea before you can blink.
→ Multiple tabs, dark mode, markdown preview, line numbers, word count, find & replace.
→ Lock any note with real AES-256 encryption — the password is never stored anywhere.
→ Your notes are saved to your browser's localStorage — never uploaded to a server.
→ No signup, no account, no ads, no analytics, no third-party scripts.
→ Works fully offline as a PWA, with JSON backup & restore.
The part I'm most proud of: I architected it so I literally can't see your notes, even if I wanted to. Share links encode the note in the URL fragment (the part after #) which browsers never transmit to servers. You can verify all of this in DevTools in about thirty seconds — open the Network tab, type a paragraph, and watch zero requests go out.
It's free forever. No premium tier, no upsell, no "pro plan coming soon." It's just a notepad.
Three things I'd genuinely love feedback on:
Is there a feature from desktop Notepad you miss that I haven't added yet?
The markdown preview is basic on purpose — should it stay that way or get more powerful?
Anything that feels slow, broken, or weird on your device, please tell me. I'll fix it today.
Thanks for taking a look 🙏
— Fez Aly
About onlinenotepad.app on Product Hunt
“Free online notepad. No signup, no ads, no tracking.”
onlinenotepad.app was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #147 on the daily leaderboard. OnlineNotepad.app is a free browser notepad for anyone who just wants to write something down — no signup wall, no cookie banner, no wondering where their text goes. It works like the Notepad you know, plus tabs, dark mode, markdown, line numbers, word count, and shareable links. Lock notes with AES-256 encryption and work fully offline as a PWA. Your notes stay in your browser's local storage — never on a server. No account, no ads, no tracking. Verify it in DevTools in under a minute.
On the analytics side, onlinenotepad.app competes within Productivity, Privacy and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how onlinenotepad.app performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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