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v0.7.2
UwUNotes is in the "Open with" menu on Windows
- The setup registers UwUNotes for text and code files (.txt, .md, .json, .log, .py, .rs and many more) under "Open with". Before, you had to find it once through "Choose another app"
- UwUNotes also shows up under Settings → Apps → Default apps, where it can be made the default for single file types
- Uninstalling removes these entries again
The update runs the setup on its own, and UwUNotes shows up in the list afterwards.
Downloads
| Windows (x64) | UwUNotes-windows-x64-setup.exe |
| Windows on ARM / Windows auf ARM | UwUNotes-windows-arm64-setup.exe |
| macOS (Intel & Apple chip) | UwUNotes-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu / Debian | UwUNotes-linux-x64.deb · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.deb |
| Fedora / openSUSE | UwUNotes-linux-x64.rpm · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.rpm |
| Arch Linux | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz (AUR: uwunotes-bin coming · folgt) |
| Linux portable / Linux portabel | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz · ARM: …-arm64-portable.tar.gz |
macOS: the app has no Apple developer ID, so the first start is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Details in docs/install.md.
macOS: Die App hat keine Apple-Entwickler-ID, deshalb wird der erste Start blockiert. Systemeinstellungen → Datenschutz & Sicherheit → „Dennoch öffnen“. Mehr in docs/install.md.
SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file here · listet die Prüfsumme jeder Datei hier. UwUNotes-update-… files are for the in-app updater · sind für die Update-Funktion der App.
v0.7.1
Open with UwUNotes opens the file
- On Windows and Linux, "Open with UwUNotes" (right-click) started the editor but not the file. The same for a double-click when UwUNotes is the default app for a file type. Now the file opens straight away in a tab
- If UwUNotes is already running, the file lands as a new tab in the open window instead of starting a second one
- The Linux package (.deb, AUR) now registers UwUNotes for text files too, so it shows up under "Open with"
Downloads
| Windows (x64) | UwUNotes-windows-x64-setup.exe |
| Windows on ARM / Windows auf ARM | UwUNotes-windows-arm64-setup.exe |
| macOS (Intel & Apple chip) | UwUNotes-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu / Debian | UwUNotes-linux-x64.deb · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.deb |
| Fedora / openSUSE | UwUNotes-linux-x64.rpm · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.rpm |
| Arch Linux | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz (AUR: uwunotes-bin coming · folgt) |
| Linux portable / Linux portabel | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz · ARM: …-arm64-portable.tar.gz |
macOS: the app has no Apple developer ID, so the first start is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Details in docs/install.md.
macOS: Die App hat keine Apple-Entwickler-ID, deshalb wird der erste Start blockiert. Systemeinstellungen → Datenschutz & Sicherheit → „Dennoch öffnen“. Mehr in docs/install.md.
SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file here · listet die Prüfsumme jeder Datei hier. UwUNotes-update-… files are for the in-app updater · sind für die Update-Funktion der App.
v0.7.0
UwUNotes now wears the new UwU Suite design ✧
- New suite design: buttons, switches, choices and dialogs look like the other UwU apps, with round pill buttons and softer dialogs
- New icons: clear Lucide icons everywhere, the same as in UwUMail and the rest of the suite
- UwU Console as an editor font: the suite's new monospace font, easy to read and without ligatures, to pick next to JetBrains Mono and Fira Code (Settings → Font). JetBrains Mono stays the default
- High contrast: a new setting under Appearance → Contrast (System, Normal, High), for light and dark
- Interface font: UwU Sans now comes from the suite package; Manrope, Rubik, DM Sans and the system font are there too
:3and<3stay as you type them: they are no longer turned into symbols- The font licences are listed under "About UwUNotes"
Downloads
| Windows (x64) | UwUNotes-windows-x64-setup.exe |
| Windows on ARM / Windows auf ARM | UwUNotes-windows-arm64-setup.exe |
| macOS (Intel & Apple chip) | UwUNotes-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu / Debian | UwUNotes-linux-x64.deb · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.deb |
| Fedora / openSUSE | UwUNotes-linux-x64.rpm · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.rpm |
| Arch Linux | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz (AUR: uwunotes-bin coming · folgt) |
| Linux portable / Linux portabel | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz · ARM: …-arm64-portable.tar.gz |
macOS: the app has no Apple developer ID, so the first start is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Details in docs/install.md.
macOS: Die App hat keine Apple-Entwickler-ID, deshalb wird der erste Start blockiert. Systemeinstellungen → Datenschutz & Sicherheit → „Dennoch öffnen“. Mehr in docs/install.md.
SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file here · listet die Prüfsumme jeder Datei hier. UwUNotes-update-… files are for the in-app updater · sind für die Update-Funktion der App.
v0.6.0
Nyu is a notebook now, has a menu of her own, and on a Mac UwUNotes feels like a real Mac app ✧
- New logo: Nyu is a pink spiral notebook with a pencil behind her ear, in the icon and everywhere in the app
- Nyu menu and Nyu-Zentrale: level, achievements (secret ones show as "???" until found), wardrobe, Pomodoro, secrets and Nyu's switches on one page
- Updates in Settings: see your version, check for updates any time and install them right there
- Browse the note trash: its own sidebar view with search, preview, restore, delete for good and empty (also under Datei → Papierkorb anzeigen)
- Hide and show the sidebar with a button right in it; folded, a slim rail with the views stays
- Menus fit the window: long lists scroll, submenus move up or left, nothing scrolls sideways any more
- Fonts like UwUMail: UwU Sans is the new interface font, or Rubik, DM Sans or the system font. The editor can use any installed font, with search
- macOS: the system title bar with traffic lights, every menu in the menu bar with ⌘ shortcuts, Mac-style shortcuts everywhere, quitting from the Dock saves first, an icon in Apple's format, "Open With" for text files
- Ready for the Mac App Store (a separate sandboxed build, not submitted yet)
- C++ and C# can be picked as languages again
Downloads
| Windows (x64) | UwUNotes-windows-x64-setup.exe |
| Windows on ARM / Windows auf ARM | UwUNotes-windows-arm64-setup.exe |
| macOS (Intel & Apple chip) | UwUNotes-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu / Debian | UwUNotes-linux-x64.deb · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.deb |
| Fedora / openSUSE | UwUNotes-linux-x64.rpm · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.rpm |
| Arch Linux | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz (AUR: uwunotes-bin coming · folgt) |
| Linux portable / Linux portabel | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz · ARM: …-arm64-portable.tar.gz |
macOS: the app has no Apple developer ID, so the first start is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Details in docs/install.md.
macOS: Die App hat keine Apple-Entwickler-ID, deshalb wird der erste Start blockiert. Systemeinstellungen → Datenschutz & Sicherheit → „Dennoch öffnen“. Mehr in docs/install.md.
SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file here · listet die Prüfsumme jeder Datei hier. UwUNotes-update-… files are for the in-app updater · sind für die Update-Funktion der App.
v0.5.0
Closing without questions, time travel for every file, Markdown preview, a notebook, zen mode and a Nyu who is alive ✧
- Closing never asks any more. Just close it: the next start brings everything back exactly as it was, unsaved notes included, even with session restore switched off. Drafts are saved about a second after you type instead of every 20 seconds
- Note trash: a tab with unsaved changes also closes without asking, and its text goes to the trash. Bring it back with "Restore" on the notification, with Ctrl+Shift+T (even after a restart) or from the notebook. Entries expire after 30 days
- Notebook in the sidebar: open notes and the trash, with previews and search. Untitled notes are now named after their first line, and "Save as" suggests a file name from it
- Time travel: every file and every note keeps versions automatically – on save, before a reload, before "Replace in files" or another program overwrites the text, and every few minutes while you type. Any version can be compared side by side with the current text, restored (undoable), opened in a new tab or copied. Older versions thin out (7 to 365 days, configurable)
- Markdown preview right next to the editor (Ctrl+Shift+V): it scrolls along, shows tables, task lists and highlighted code, and its checkboxes can be clicked. In the editor, Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl+click ticks off a task. The preview never loads anything from the network and never runs anything a file contains
- Outline: headings, functions and sections of the active file in the sidebar, one click away
- Bookmarks as in Notepad++: Ctrl+F2 sets one, F2 and Shift+F2 jump, plus copy or delete bookmarked lines and a list across all open files
- Zen mode (F11): fullscreen, just the text as a calm column, optionally with typewriter scrolling and dimmed surroundings. Esc brings everything back as it was
- Pin and colour tabs: pinned tabs stay on the left and survive "Close all", plus five colours like Notepad++. New: "Close to the right"
- Word count: the status bar shows the word count; a click shows characters, paragraphs and reading and speaking time for the document and the selection
- Nyu is alive: she sits at the bottom left of the status bar, types along, falls asleep when you take a break, follows the caret with her eyes and now and then peeks in from the edge of the window. Witch hat in October; a Santa hat, a party hat and bunny ears follow
- Levels and achievements: while you write, Nyu gains experience, levels up and unlocks achievements and hats. Everything stays on your computer
- Nyu Pomodoro in the status bar, and a few secrets (try typing "uwu"). Each part can be switched off under Settings → Nyu; with animations off, Nyu holds still
Downloads
| Windows (x64) | UwUNotes-windows-x64-setup.exe |
| Windows on ARM / Windows auf ARM | UwUNotes-windows-arm64-setup.exe |
| macOS (Intel & Apple chip) | UwUNotes-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu / Debian | UwUNotes-linux-x64.deb · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.deb |
| Fedora / openSUSE | UwUNotes-linux-x64.rpm · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.rpm |
| Arch Linux | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz (AUR: uwunotes-bin coming · folgt) |
| Linux portable / Linux portabel | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz · ARM: …-arm64-portable.tar.gz |
macOS: the app has no Apple developer ID, so the first start is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Details in docs/install.md.
macOS: Die App hat keine Apple-Entwickler-ID, deshalb wird der erste Start blockiert. Systemeinstellungen → Datenschutz & Sicherheit → „Dennoch öffnen“. Mehr in docs/install.md.
SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file here · listet die Prüfsumme jeder Datei hier. UwUNotes-update-… files are for the in-app updater · sind für die Update-Funktion der App.
v0.4.2
A security update and a new face for Nyu
- Safer: a downloaded or unpacked git repository can no longer start programs through a script in .git/hooks when UwUNotes shows its changes in the gutter. Please update
- New: Linux packages (.deb and .rpm) for x64 and ARM, plus a portable version to unpack
- New: a setup of its own for Windows on ARM
- Mac: one setup for Apple chips and Intel
- New taskbar icon: Nyu now stands upright without the dark tile, as a sheet with lines and a caret, and reads as notes even when small
- New app icon in the style of the other UwU apps
- Nyu's mouth is a round w now
Downloads
| Windows (x64) | UwUNotes-windows-x64-setup.exe |
| Windows on ARM / Windows auf ARM | UwUNotes-windows-arm64-setup.exe |
| macOS (Intel & Apple chip) | UwUNotes-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu / Debian | UwUNotes-linux-x64.deb · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.deb |
| Fedora / openSUSE | UwUNotes-linux-x64.rpm · ARM: UwUNotes-linux-arm64.rpm |
| Arch Linux | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz (AUR: uwunotes-bin coming · folgt) |
| Linux portable / Linux portabel | UwUNotes-linux-x64-portable.tar.gz · ARM: …-arm64-portable.tar.gz |
macOS: the app has no Apple developer ID, so the first start is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Details in docs/install.md.
macOS: Die App hat keine Apple-Entwickler-ID, deshalb wird der erste Start blockiert. Systemeinstellungen → Datenschutz & Sicherheit → „Dennoch öffnen“. Mehr in docs/install.md.
SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file here · listet die Prüfsumme jeder Datei hier. UwUNotes-update-… files are for the in-app updater · sind für die Update-Funktion der App.
v0.4.1
The settings are reachable again
- In 0.4.0 the settings dialog opened below the edge of the window and could not be brought into view. It sits in the middle again, and its contents scroll inside the dialog
- The same for the command palette, which with all the new commands could otherwise run off the bottom of the window
v0.4.0
A new header, compare two files, and UwUNotes now comes for macOS and Linux too ✧
- The top of the window has three rows now: Nyu and the name, a menu row (File, Search, View, Encoding, Language, Settings, Tools) and a row with the buttons you reach for most
- Two or three files side by side (Ctrl+Shift+2 / 3)
- Compare two files (Ctrl+Shift+C): what is missing shows red on the left, what was added green on the right, the changed characters stronger still. Both sides scroll together, F8 jumps to the next difference
- Ctrl + mouse wheel zooms the text as a view only. The font size in Settings stays as it is
- Selected text (after Ctrl+A, say) is much easier to see
- File menu: recent files, save a copy as, rename, print
- Search is a small window. Match case, whole words and regular expressions are behind "Advanced"
- The Language menu is sorted A to Z, and there is an Encoding menu
- Tools: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 and more, for text, for files, or straight from the selection into the clipboard
Security: a project folder with a crafted git configuration could still start a program when opened, despite the existing check, hidden in an included config file or in a submodule. That is fixed. The release build also signs the update in a separate step now, one that runs no third-party build code.
Installers: Windows as before. New are macOS (separate DMGs for Apple silicon and Intel) and Linux (a tar.gz with the setup inside). All of them use the same setup with Nyu. None of them is signed by Apple or Microsoft, so the first start shows a warning. What to do then is in docs/install.md.
v0.3.1
A small fix to uninstalling ✧
- A silent uninstall from the command line (
uninstall.exe --uninstall /S) reported success immediately while opening a window nobody was waiting at — and the program stayed installed. It now runs through and reports honestly whether it worked - This only affected the scripted route. Uninstalling through Windows' own list of installed apps gives you a window and asks, as it always did; that path was never affected
Everything else is as in 0.3.0. Worth updating mainly if you roll UwUNotes out across several machines.
v0.3.0
UwUNotes brings its own installer now ✧
- A setup with Nyu in it, like the rest of the UwU suite. It says where it is going to install and then does it — one window, not a wizard with five Next buttons
- It installs under your own user, without administrator rights, to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\UwUNotes. A Start-menu shortcut, and one on the desktop if you want
- Uninstalling goes through Windows' own list of installed apps. Your session and your unsaved notes stay where they are unless you say otherwise
- Updates go through this setup from now on. The signature is checked a second time immediately before it runs — between downloading and running, the file sits on disk. An older version is refused
If you have 0.2.0 you will be offered 0.3.0 automatically. If you are still on 0.1.0, download once by hand.
Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). The setup is not signed with a Windows certificate, so Windows will warn you when you start it — More info, then Run anyway. There is still an MSI for anyone who would rather have one.