Does Standard Notes train on your data?
Standard Notes says its server holds your notes' metadata but cannot read their content, and states three separate times that it cannot decrypt what you write.
Your content is not readable to them
"While our server stores metadata like creation and modification dates, it cannot read the content of your notes."
- 1 Oct 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All plans
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 34D57AF4…E2FC
How we read it: Graded from standardnotes.com/legal/privacy, not from /privacy — the latter is a 383-word manifesto ("Stand For Privacy") and grading marketing copy is exactly what this grade forbids, however well the copy reads. The policy proper says the same thing three ways: the server "cannot read the content of your notes", "we cannot decrypt end-to-end encrypted content", and consequently "we are unable to provide decrypted copies of user data" — the last being a statement against interest, since it is about what they cannot hand over when asked. What the server does hold, and the policy says so in the quoted sentence, is metadata: creation and modification dates.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Nothing to opt out of
- Not stated
- 5 / 100
- Not stated
- No
How to opt out of Standard Notes AI training
Plan by plan, from what Standard Notes's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All plans
There is nothing to opt out of. Standard Notes's own policy says it can't reach the content, so training on it isn't something a setting controls.
What this policy has done since we started watching
1 change detected since 18 Aug 2026. Each one is a diff between two archived copies, and each links to the passage that moved.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to Standard Notes about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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