Wakapi
A critical auth bypass lands in the middle of Wakapi's slow identity rebuild.
Comparison · PM
Notesnook vs Super Productivity
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Notesnook and Super Productivity — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Notesnook vs Super Productivity: at a glance
What is Notesnook?
Notesnook ships steady 3.4.x patches across desktop and Android with the notes kept off-feed.
The release feed is a rolling stream of 3.4.x point releases alternating between desktop and Android, roughly weekly. Every entry is a version tag with a one-line pointer to the blog and a compare link, so nothing about the actual changes is visible in the feed itself.
What is Super Productivity?
A local-first task manager quietly rebuilding itself into a sync engine with a plugin platform on top.
Super Productivity ships minor releases every week or two where the visible feature work is thin and the real effort sits in sync. Across the last six releases the operation-log sync layer picked up field-level merging of concurrent edits, queued background requests, conflict replay, and encrypted-only enforcement for SuperSync. The plugin system absorbed the Azure DevOps and Trello issue providers and gained OAuth hooks plus local secret storage. Since v18.19.0 in early August the repository has published only working branch tags, so the numbered release stream has been quiet for over a week.
Notesnook vs Super Productivity: editorial side-by-side
Notesnook ships steady 3.4.x patches across desktop and Android with the notes kept off-feed.
◆ Current state
The release feed is a rolling stream of 3.4.x point releases alternating between desktop and Android, roughly weekly. Every entry is a version tag with a one-line pointer to the blog and a compare link, so nothing about the actual changes is visible in the feed itself.
◆ Where it's heading
This is maintenance-phase cadence: no minor version bump across the whole visible window, no announcement-shaped entries, and platform releases interleaved rather than coordinated. Direction cannot be read from these notes — the feed is a build log, and any substantive change is being communicated elsewhere.
◆ Prediction
Expect the 3.4.x patch stream to continue on both platforms at the same interval; the feed will not indicate a larger release until a minor version bump appears.
A local-first task manager quietly rebuilding itself into a sync engine with a plugin platform on top.
◆ Current state
Super Productivity ships minor releases every week or two where the visible feature work is thin and the real effort sits in sync. Across the last six releases the operation-log sync layer picked up field-level merging of concurrent edits, queued background requests, conflict replay, and encrypted-only enforcement for SuperSync. The plugin system absorbed the Azure DevOps and Trello issue providers and gained OAuth hooks plus local secret storage. Since v18.19.0 in early August the repository has published only working branch tags, so the numbered release stream has been quiet for over a week.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc is a single-user local app growing the two things multi-device users demand — sync they can trust and third-party integrations — without standing up a server the project has to operate. Sync is being pushed toward fail-closed defaults: encryption is enforced rather than offered, plaintext downloads are refused, stale-key uploads are blocked, and the local REST API now demands a bearer token. Integrations are moving the other way, out of core and into plugins that can authenticate on their own. The one visible thread since then is design-system work — dialogs being moved off hardcoded fills onto theme tokens — which suggests a theming pass running between releases.
◆ Prediction
Expect the opt-in split-file delta sync format to become the default once conflict replay settles, and more built-in issue providers to follow Azure DevOps and Trello out of core into plugins. The current styling commits point to a theme-token cleanup landing in the next numbered release, though the branch tags alone do not say how large it is.
Alternatives to Notesnook and Super Productivity
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Notesnook or Super Productivity.
Process Street
Process Street's public feed is an SEO content engine, not a changelog.
NocoBase
NocoBase runs two release lines at once while the v3 client rewrite absorbs the AI work
Hive
Hive ships in batches, and this one is all planning accuracy and admin control.
Plane
Plane ships a fortnightly digest, and the AI layer is where the real work is going.
Ever Teams
Ever Teams shipped ten tags in twelve hours and one of them touched the product
See all Notesnook alternatives → · See all Super Productivity alternatives →
Recent activity from Notesnook and Super Productivity
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoNotesnookNotesnook Desktop v3.4.6
- 3d agoSuper ProductivityDialog fills move to theme tokens; callout markup corrected
- 8d agoNotesnookNotesnook Android v3.4.9
- 11d agoSuper ProductivityEncrypted-only sync enforced; local REST API now needs a token
- 15d agoNotesnookNotesnook Android v3.4.8
- 18d agoNotesnookNotesnook Android v3.4.6
- 21d agoNotesnookNotesnook Desktop v3.4.5
- 25d agoSuper ProductivityRecurring task settings fold into the planner's schedule dialog
- 28d agoNotesnookNotesnook Android v3.4.7
- 1mo agoSuper ProductivityConcurrent edits to the same task now merge field by field
- 1mo agoSuper ProductivitySync fix: project move replays now converge
- 1mo agoSuper ProductivityTodoist import, Android widget, opt-in split-file delta sync
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Notesnook and Super Productivity?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Notesnook and Super Productivity are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Notesnook better than Super Productivity?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Notesnook and Super Productivity are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Notesnook?
Top Notesnook alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Notesnook alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/notesnook for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Super Productivity?
Top Super Productivity alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Super Productivity alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/super-productivity for the full list with editorial commentary on each.