Joplin
Joplin is a desktop note-taking and to-do app for macOS that helps you organize notebooks, sync notes across devices, and manage information offline.
What is Joplin?
Joplin is a note-taking and to-do application for desktop and mobile use, with a macOS desktop app that stores your notes locally and helps you organize them into notebooks. It is designed for people who want a flexible workspace for personal notes, task lists, research, and long-form writing without depending entirely on a browser-based service. Joplin supports searchable notes, tags, attachments, and to-do items with alarms, so it fits both everyday note capture and more structured project organization. It can import content such as Evernote exports and Markdown files, which is useful when moving from another notes app or keeping plain-text friendly archives. It also supports synchronization across devices using services such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud, WebDAV, or the local file system. Joplin is published by Laurent Cozic and is available for macOS as part of the wider Joplin app family.
Key features
- Create and organize notes in notebooks
- Add tags to group and find related notes
- Manage to-do notes with reminders and alarms
- Search across large note collections
- Import notes from Evernote exports and Markdown files
- Sync notes across devices with supported sync services
- Work with attachments such as images and documents
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Joplin is legitimate note-taking software. It stores note content and related data for normal app use, and any sync service you enable may also receive that data as part of synchronization. Notifications for to-do reminders are an expected feature. If you use Joplin for sensitive information, review your sync settings carefully and protect your device and chosen sync account with strong security.
Recommendation: Keep Joplin if you use it for notes, tasks, or synced notebooks across devices. Remove it only if you no longer use the app and have already exported or synced any notes you want to keep, since uninstalling it without a backup can leave important information behind or make it harder to recover later.
Common paths
/Applications/Joplin.app~/Applications/Joplin.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/net.cozic.joplin-desktop
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Joplin
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/net.cozic.joplin-desktop.plist
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