simplenote-electron VS com.spotify.Client

Agreed re stewardship & hope for long-term viability. Operation + updates ~3x / year for the iOS, macos and Linux clients I use daily and also for Android and Windows. Freemium and paywalling hasn’t infringed on utility yet and they’ve kept the source code available and GPLv2

https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron

Hmm, I'm on iOS but I've never seen that issue before. Is this something that only happens in Android but not on the web app at app.simplenote.com maybe? Is it an issue with that note only? Or do all your notes have this scrolling issue?

I just checked the Play Store, and see "In-app purchases $19.99 - $199.99 per item", but I have no idea what that could be, and I see nothing about that in the Android app or at https://app.simplenote.com/! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.automattic.simplenote&hl=en_US&gl=US

Sure is!

I use app.simplenote.com It is free from the people that do WordPress. Obviously you ddon't want to put sensitive info in it. It works well for saving, sorting and accessing info I grab off the web.

Simplenote.

It's a cross-platform, very simple, notes app. I use it on my computer at https://app.simplenote.com/, and with the app all my Android devices. It It also has an iOS app.

There is nothing "unsafe" about flatpak. In fact for every package on flathub you can see exactly what the "unofficial" packagers do in the corresponding github repository. For example here is the repository for Spotify, if you look at the json manifest file you can see they are repackaging the "official" Snap with the necessary libraries and scripts to support it running as a flatpak. Everything there is open source and able to be examined.

If you click on the "Manifest" link for the package on flathub, it will take you to where the code that packages the app resides. There you can review exactly what the packager does in the json manifest. Here's the one for the Spotify client, for example, which shows where it pulls in dependencies and where it downloads the proprietary code from (in this case they base it on the snap) and what commands it executes while packaging the flatpak.

Try installing it via Flatpak

Flatpaks builds are made to be reproducible. Everything is done openly and you can check how the apps like for example Spotify where made.

Why not just use the flatpak?

Judging by the manifest, the Spotify Flatpak is built from the Spotify Snap.