Install via Nix

You can install QOwnNotes with the Nix package manager on NixOS, other Linux distributions, macOS and Windows. The package name is qownnotes.

Tips

Best use the NixOS Unstable channel to get the latest version of QOwnNotes!

The package is built with Qt6, uses the system botan3 library and libgit2 and provides shell integration for fish and bash.

See QOwnNotes on nix for more information.

Afterward you should be able to run QOwnNotes with the command qownnotes or QOwnNotes.

Tips

The QOwnNotes command-line snippet manager qc can also be installed via the Nix Store.

You can use nix-shell -p qc --run "qc exec" to try it out.

Info

On macOS the package works natively on x86 and Apple Silicon!

Tips

If QOwnNotes logs Could not write secret to keychain on Linux, install a Secret Service implementation and restart your desktop session.

For GNOME and other Secret Service based desktops, add packages such as gnome-keyring, libsecret and seahorse to your environment.

For KDE Plasma, add KWallet support such as kdePackages.kwalletmanager and kdePackages.kwallet.

QOwnNotes will fall back to legacy encryption if the desktop keychain is unavailable.