Use cases

Whatever brought you here

People arrive at an encrypted notes app from different directions — a cloud service they stopped trusting, a signup form they refused, or an Electron app that ate a gigabyte of RAM. Each page below answers one of those directly.

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An encrypted notes app for Windows

The most common reason people find Snoq. Notes encrypted with AES-256 before they touch the disk, with a key derived from your password that exists only in memory and is zeroed the moment you lock.

Cipher: AES-256-CBC
Key derivation: Argon2id · 64 MB
Keys on disk: None

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A note open in Snoq, with the vault unlocked

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Write privately. Keep it that way.

Free, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Your notes are encrypted with AES-256 on your own machine, using a key derived from your password that never touches disk.

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Encryption: AES-256-CBC · Argon2id
Network use: None — works fully offline
Requires: Windows 10 or 11 · no admin
Recovery: None — your password is the only key

That last row is not a limitation we forgot to fix. Nothing anywhere else has ever held your key, so nothing anywhere else can hand it back. Choose a password you will not lose.