Growly Notes
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Growly Notes, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Growly Notes's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free to use without payment · Donations accepted |
| Growly Notes | Free | No price or feature limits stated · Free; donations accepted |
The facts
Each one read from Growly Notes's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Capture
- Users can send printouts from other applications to Notes, record audio or video notes, and use built-in drawing tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker says notebooks can be shared between Macs using Dropbox, Google Drive, network servers, or shared folders over Wi-Fi; Growly Notes does not support iCloud.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- Growly Notes does not read OneNote files; the maker describes exporting to .doc, .rtf, or .html and importing those files as a Windows OneNote transfer route.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Note sharing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Organization
- Notebooks contain sections and pages, and users can search across open notebooks, tag notes, bookmark text, and link to notebook content.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Page content
- Pages can contain formatted text, images, movies, audio, PDFs, tables, lists, links, web pages, and drawings.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says its software does not collect information about users, their computers, or their use of its products, and that it does not sell or give away user information.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Growly Notes is a free-form note-taking app for organizing class notes, research, trips, to-do lists, journals, images, web links, and video clips.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Real-time collaboration
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Security
- Users can password-protect a section or an entire notebook; the maker says notebook data is hidden on screen and encrypted in the file.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Sharing
- Collaborators can work independently on a shared notebook and sync their changes using storage such as a shared folder, file server, or the web.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Storage
- The maker says notebooks are stored on the user's hard drive or another chosen local drive and are not stored in the cloud by Notes itself.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker invites support requests by email or through the app Help menu and says it tries to answer emails the same day.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support limit
- The maker says it cannot promise full technical support, though it tries to answer questions within a day and fix bugs as quickly as it can.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Templates
- Users can create page and notebook templates, and the app includes dozens of built-in page templates.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Who it is for
- The maker describes the app for people organizing information such as class notes, research projects, trips, to-do lists, and journals.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform and requirement
- The product page lists macOS 10.10 or later; the maker says it is a Mac-only shop and does not offer mobile versions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- macOSchecked 20 Sep 2026
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