Productivity
MinkNote
Last updated 2026-07-24 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
MinkNote is a native macOS note-taking app built on plain Markdown files.
Is MinkNote production-ready?
Legit.Show scores MinkNote 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on MinkNote (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 76/100
- Accessibility — 95/100
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 299 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Demian Turner (@demianturner) · product account @MinkNoteApp
Who it's for
Mac users · Knowledge workers · Writers · Privacy-conscious users · Markdown enthusiasts
Pricing
14-day free trial; Pro: $2.99/month ($1.67/month billed annually at $19.99/year) or $49.99 one-time Early Supporter pricing
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