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ZenNotes

Source: ZenNotes/zennotes · ★ 2173 · TypeScript

Last updated 2026-07-27 · benchmark measured 2026-09-22 — deterministic & reproducible

Keyboard-first Markdown note-taking app with real Vim motions and local plain-text files.

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Legit.Show scored ZenNotes 69/100 on 2026-09-22, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/gh-zennotes-zennotes/2026-09-22

Is ZenNotes production-ready?

Legit.Show scores ZenNotes 69 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on ZenNotes (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 62/100
• Accessibility — 98/100
• Security — 50/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 35/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 527 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Adi Bhanna

Who it's for

Vim users · Note takers · Developers · AI assistant users · iOS users

Pricing

Free & open source

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from zennotes.org's own website on 2026-07-27.

Code

github.com/ZenNotes/zennotes.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-22.

Put together from public information, without ZenNotes's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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