Productivity
Notes Plus
Last updated 2026-09-02 · benchmark measured 2026-09-02 — deterministic & reproducible
Notes Plus is a Markdown-based note-taking app for macOS positioned as an Apple Notes alternative.
Is Notes Plus production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Notes Plus 50 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Notes Plus (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Discoverability. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 75/100
- Discoverability — 25/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 347 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap.
Who it's for
Mac users · Note-takers · Students · Researchers · Teams
Pricing
Free during alpha/beta testing; $19 lifetime license after stable release
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