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Plainva is out — and I'm looking for testers

July 9, 2026

Plainva just shipped v0.1.1. The first thing I did afterwards wasn’t to sit back — it was to put the app to work myself, with a real vault, the way I actually use it day to day.

What you notice when you really use it

An automated test suite catches a lot, but not the things that only show up once a real vault sits on real storage: ten thousand notes in a folder that’s also running through a cloud client, on a sluggish network drive. That’s exactly where the things that matter turn up. Almost all of it came down to two promises I care about more than any feature in a notes app: that sync stays trustworthy and never silently overwrites a newer change, and that the app stays fast even on large vaults synced through a cloud drive. I straightened out both — without dropping a single feature or cutting a corner on safety.

Why I’m looking for testers now

As thoroughly as I use the app myself, one person on a handful of devices only finds a fraction of what real variety turns up. I don’t have every cloud provider, every vault size, every operating system — and I don’t even own a Mac. What I can’t cover on my own is exactly where an app like this stands or falls.

So I’m looking for testers — people who’d like to help shape Plainva while it’s still this early. The deal is simple: put it to work with a real vault (keep a backup copy — just common sense for any early build), use it for a few days, and tell me where it hurts. Everything you report goes straight into the next version.

— Marco