Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.

Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported.

The notes can be synchronised with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or the file system (for example with a network directory). When synchronising the notes, notebooks, tags and other metadata are saved to plain text files which can be easily inspected, backed up and moved around.

The application is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS (the terminal app also works on FreeBSD). A Web Clipper, to save web pages and screenshots from your browser, is also available for Firefox and Chrome.

Installation

Three types of applications are available: for the desktop (Windows, macOS and Linux), for mobile (Android and iOS) and for terminal (Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD). All applications have similar user interfaces and can synchronise with each other.

Desktop applications

Operating System	Download
Windows (32 and 64-bit)
macOS
Linux

On Windows, you may also use the Portable version. The portable application allows installing the software on a portable device such as a USB key. Simply copy the file JoplinPortable.exe in any directory on that USB key ; the application will then create a directory called "JoplinProfile" next to the executable file.

On Linux, the recommended way is to use the following installation script as it will handle the desktop icon too:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/dev/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash

Mobile applications

Operating System	Download	Alt. Download
Android		or download the APK file: 64-bit 32-bit
iOS		-

Terminal application

NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin

sudo ln -s ~/.joplin-bin/bin/joplin /usr/bin/joplin

By default, the application binary will be installed under ~/.joplin-bin. You may change this directory if needed. Alternatively, if your npm permissions are setup as described here (Option 2) then simply running npm -g install joplin would work.

To start it, type joplin.

For usage information, please refer to the full Joplin Terminal Application Documentation.

Unsupported methods

There are other ways to install the terminal application. However, they are not supported and problems must be reported to the upstream projects.

Web Clipper

The Web Clipper is a browser extension that allows you to save web pages and screenshots from your browser. For more information on how to install and use it, see the Web Clipper Help Page.

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Table of contents

• Applications

  • Desktop application
  • Mobile applications
  • Terminal application
  • Web Clipper

• Support

  • Joplin Forum
  • Markdown Guide
  • How to enable end-to-end encryption
  • What is a conflict?
  • How to enable debug mode
  • About the Rich Text editor limitations
  • FAQ

• Joplin API - Get Started

  • Joplin API Overview
  • Plugin development
  • Plugin tutorial

• Joplin API - References

  • Plugin API
  • Data API
  • Plugin manifest
  • Plugin loading rules
  • Plugin theming

• Development

  • How to build the apps
  • End-to-end encryption spec
  • Note History spec
  • Sync Lock spec
  • Plugin Architecture spec
  • Search Sorting spec
  • Server: File URL Format
  • Server: Delta Sync
  • Server: Sharing

• Google Summer of Code 2021

  • Google Summer of Code 2021
  • How to submit a GSoC pull request
  • Project Ideas

• About

  • Changelog (Desktop App)
  • Changelog (CLI App)
  • Changelog (Server)
  • Stats
  • Donate

Features

• Desktop, mobile and terminal applications.
• Web Clipper for Firefox and Chrome.
• End To End Encryption (E2EE).
• Note history (revisions).
• Synchronisation with various services, including Nextcloud, Dropbox, WebDAV and OneDrive.
• Offline first, so the