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Did Remnote Just Leapfrog Tana?
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Posted by Lucas
Mar 26, 2026 at 07:44 PM
(By the way, if you happen to be on Mac, my latest approach to high-memory apps has been to create web apps in Safari via Share—>Add to Dock. Unlike web apps created in other browsers, the Safari-created ones seem to be quite effectively suspended by MacOS when not in use. This doesn’t address memory usage while using a given app, but the aggregate effect has been significant on my system.)
Posted by Lucine
Apr 1, 2026 at 06:50 PM
It might sound unbelievable, but I was using Remnote Desktop on Windows and found that it was secretly scanning content of my PC and uploading to Remnote in their own cryptic formats, with folders full of random string names IIRC, as well as an “extensionless” database full of content from my browser and local storage. It’s been a while and the exact details are fuzzy, but I’ve kept the files as proof as well as to analyze further when I have more time. I promptly uninstalled it, but kept those folders that were in the process of being uploaded to Remnote. All were cryptic extensionless files that looked like routine app folders but were definitely the result of Remnote scanning device content and uploading content to them secretly. The folder kept getting bigger and bigger and was filled with what looked like random string name files. it was also making “history” and “preferences” extensionless files that were hundreds of MB big - had nothing to do with anything I put in Remnote. It turned out to be an extensionless file that can be read when changing to .sqlite and contains ALL of the file names on my local downloads directory, browsing history, bookmarks, etc and I haven’t even looked at it in detail yet. All of this was getting silently uploaded to remnote at the time of removal of the app. I have the files to prove it.
I even found a mention of someone who discovered and was questioning something similar on one of the user forums (they hadn’t yet realized the extent of the malicious activity) but their questions were deflected in an expert way by the Remnote team which made me realize they were deliberately doing it and it was no accident. I’m not up to date on computing terminology to explain all this anymore, but it’s something you can easily verify if you’re actively looking. I recommend you give it a try and let me know what you discover. Believe me or not, I don’t care, but I’m never installing that spyware crap on my PC. Who knows how nefarious these people are. I even stopped using the browser app, since I’m not good at detecting when apps are trying shady stuff via webapps.