TaskNote vs Google Keep: private notes against quick capture

1. Privacy

TaskNote encrypts on the device, and the key is not stored on our servers. The trade is honest: lose the key and encrypted content cannot be recovered, by design. That suits people for whom confidentiality comes first.

Google Keep is a Google consumer product. Your content sits under Google's terms, privacy policy and account security, and under how Google handles data across its services. It is not offered as a notebook only you can open.

So the question to ask yourself is which one you are actually asking. If it is whether anybody, the provider included, could read your notes without your key, TaskNote answers that. If it is whether your notes turn up everywhere your Google account does, Keep answers that.

2. Writing and getting your notes out

TaskNote is built around writing: folders, pinning, filters, and Markdown underneath, so your notes can leave whenever you want them to.

Keep is built around speed: short notes, checklists, photographs, captured in a second. It was never meant to be a long-form notebook.

3. Tasks and reminders

Both help you track what is next. TaskNote keeps notes, tasks and reminders in one flow. Keep uses checklists inside notes and hands reminders to the wider Google world when you have those services connected.

4. Search

TaskNote searches across notes and inside the open one, and the same bar takes commands, which is quicker once your hands are on the keys. Keep searches within Keep, with the simplicity you expect from a light Google app.

5. Price

TaskNote has a free plan and an optional upgrade for the extras. The pricing page carries the current numbers and limits.

Google Keep is free with a Google account. It is not sold as a subscription the way small independent apps are; it earns its place by keeping you inside Google.

6. Where Keep runs out

Keep is at its best in the first minute of a note and at its weakest a month later. Labels and colours are the whole organising system: no folders, no nesting, so a few hundred notes become a wall of tiles. Checklists exist, but there is no board, no due date that lives in the note, and reminders come from the Google side.

That is usually why people type "Google Keep alternative": not because capture is bad, but because the pile has grown. TaskNote keeps the fast capture (a new note is one keystroke, the Chrome clipper saves a page in one click) and adds what Keep left out: nested folders, a note that becomes a task on a board, reminders inside the note, Markdown export, and encryption that keeps the pile yours.