Nextcloud Notes

I’ve been using this app for a few years and it consistently had syncing problems, but has recently taken steps backwards on the UI as well. First the syncing because it is the most serious: Unless you have a good connection to the server during the entire edit, you will likely lose whole portions of your note because it never made it to the server. And, since it didn’t make it to the server, the data will be lost forever (the app loses it entirely). Unfortunately, you won’t know that the data has been lost until you check it again later only to find large chunks are missing (or the entire note if it was a new note). IMHO the entire syncing/queueing portion of the app should be rewritten, and/or a proper MQ framework added— data loss is unacceptable. UI problems: recent versions of the app frequently lose the navigation controls after editing a note. Then there doesn’t seem to be any way to recover except for force-closing the app. I have to do this on a regular basis when editing saving any note. Since I have lost whole portions of note edits multiple times now, and lost entire notes when they were new, I cannot trust this app anymore for anything other than reading existing notes on the server.

I can successfully log in, but once I'm logged in it immediately disconnects. For a free app (albeit one that requires a paid service to sync to), if I could log in and stay logged in long enough to sync my notes, this would be a 4 star app. It's nothing fancy, but it's functional and it's not spying on me or otherwise nonconsensually monetizing my PII/content/activity. But the fact that it literally will not allow me log in with app passwords (I have to log in with my main nextcloud credentials - which is a huge security risk) and won't stay logged in for even 15 seconds after successfully authenticating makes this a 1.5 star app. It could be so good if I could just connect to my nextcloud instance. Even better if it would support my nextcloud E2EE and non-markdown RTF or notes-linking.

This app used to work pretty well as a bare bones app for nextcloud notes up to nextCloud v25 but for server v26 it’s pretty broken. The app constantly disconnects when you switch to another app and refuses to reconnect to the note you were just editing, which leaves you to completely reboot the app every edit. Instead of natively editing the note through the app it brings up the web interface for note editing which is slow and does not properly fit the phone screen. The app constantly goes out of sync with the notes on the server and presents you with an unreadable interface to select which version of the note is up to date. You no longer can switch between markdown and preview mode when editing a document even though it’s saving everything in markdown. All in all just needs way more polished to be used with a v26 nextcloud server.