The same encryption, with voice and AI
Standard Notes and VoiceKnight both encrypt your notes on your device, so neither company can read them. VoiceKnight adds voice capture and an optional AI assistant.
| Feature | VoiceKnight | Standard Notes |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end encrypted | Strength: Yes, always | Strength: Yes, always |
| Provider can read your notes | Strength: No | Strength: No |
| Collaboration | Strength: Shared notes with live co-editing | Weakness: No |
| Sharing end-to-end encrypted | Strength: Yes | Not applicable: No sharing |
| AI assistant | Strength: Oracle, optional | Not applicable: None |
| What the AI can read | Strength: Only what you allow | Not applicable: No AI |
| Voice to text | Strength: Yes | Weakness: No |
| Open source | Partial: Mobile app (AGPL-3.0) | Strength: Apps and server (AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0) |
| Free plan | Strength: Yes; daily AI usage | Partial: Yes; plain-text editor |
The main difference
Standard Notes is a long-standing end-to-end encrypted notes app with open-source clients and a self-hostable server. It has no AI assistant and no voice transcription.
VoiceKnight encrypts the same way and adds voice to text and Oracle, which works from the notes on your device and sees only what you allow.
Which to choose
- Pick Standard Notes for fully open-source apps and server, self-hosting, and a minimal, long-standing encrypted notebook.
- Pick VoiceKnight for more than text. VoiceKnight adds voice capture, an AI assistant you control and encrypted collaboration, where Standard Notes has none of these and its free plan is plain text only.