Productivity
note.md
Last updated 2026-06-26 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
note.md is a Mac app combining PDF reading, citation management, and linked markdown notes in one place.
Is note.md production-ready?
Legit.Show scores note.md 88 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on note.md (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 95/100
- Accessibility — 94/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 159 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
Andre Aigner · product account @arsoftwareapps
Who it's for
Students · Researchers · Academic writers · Thesis authors · Literature reviewers
Pricing
Free tier; Premium $8.99/mo or $49.99/yr (~54% savings annually) or $99.99 lifetime; Student Premium $4.99/mo or $29.99/yr
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