Beaver Notes
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Beaver Notes, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Beaver Notes's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Full Beaver Notes · bring your own cloud for sync |
| Starter | $4 a month | 30 days of note history · 10 GB storage · $4/month |
| Pro | $9 a month | One year of note history · 50 GB storage · $9/month |
| Team | $12 a month | One year of note history · 100 GB storage plus 25 GB per seat · $12/seat/month |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Custom history retention · customizable storage · contact sales · Custom |
The facts
Each one read from Beaver Notes's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Encryption
- The security model describes AES-256-GCM encryption for note content and assets at rest, plus optional encryption of sync data when app-level encryption is enabled.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Files and sharing
- The homepage describes adding files such as PDFs and presentations to notes and sharing notes with friends and other apps.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Dropbox,OneDrive,iCloud,Syncthing,Nextcloudchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Note locks
- The security model also describes manual password protection for individual notes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notes and Markdown
- The editor supports Markdown formatting, checklists, callouts, math blocks, and Mermaid diagrams.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Note sharing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Organization
- Users can search note content, titles, and labels, filter by labels, and bookmark notes on the home screen.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Plugins
- Beaver Notes supports plugins that can extend app data and editor functions, with permissions for app-plane operations such as note access, filesystem use, and network requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Plugin security
- The plugin documentation warns that editor-plane plugins have full access to the editor's JavaScript context and advises installing them only from trusted sources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Beaver Notes describes itself as a local-first, open-source notes app with no cloud, AI, or tracking on its homepage.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project and support
- The docs call Beaver Notes a fully open-source indie project and direct users to Reddit or GitHub Discussions to join the community and ask questions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sync integrations
- The sync guide describes syncing through a user-selected folder in services such as Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud, or Syncthing, and says users can set up their own server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sync limitation
- The docs say autosync does not work with GVFS on Linux and recommend tools such as Celeste or Nextcloud Client instead.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Sync plans
- The maker's August 2026 post describes Beaver Sync plans and says paid plans provide Beaver-hosted storage while the free plan uses the user's own cloud.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The installation guide documents Windows, macOS, and Linux installs, including Windows portable builds and Linux Flatpak, DEB, RPM, AUR, and AppImage options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows,macOS,Linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
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