# HamburgChimps/apple-notes-liberator

Free your Apple Notes data from Notes.app

Repository: https://github.com/HamburgChimps/apple-notes-liberator
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/apple-notes-liberator
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: apple-notes, picocli, quarkus
Last push: 2023-09-24T14:03:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 21/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 89
- inputs: {"age_days": 1257, "days_push": 1074, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1017, forks 26 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.565005+00:00)

## What it is
A Java CLI tool that extracts notes from Apple's Notes.app SQLite database and exports them as JSON or Markdown. Built with Quarkus and picocli, installable via JBang.

## Use cases
- export apple notes to markdown
- get my notes out of notes.app
- convert apple notes to json
- backup apple notes data
- migrate notes from apple notes to another app
- read apple notes sqlite database

## When to choose
- you're on macOS and want a simple one-command export of Apple Notes to JSON or Markdown
- you prefer installing CLI tools via JBang without manual jar handling

## When to avoid
- you need a feature-rich extractor with more output options - the author recommends threeplanetssoftware's apple-notes-extractor instead
- you're not on macOS, since it reads the Apple Notes local sqlite store
- you need actively developed markdown export - it's marked as early development

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, cli, serialization, markdown, json
- domain: apple-ecosystem, files, developer-tools
- platform: cli, jvm
- tags: apple-notes, data-export, sqlite, quarkus, jbang, note-export, macos

## Member repositories
- HamburgChimps/apple-notes-liberator (main) score 21

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.565005+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:09.559169+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/HamburgChimps/apple-notes-liberator (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.565005+00:00, sha 6360b861a35d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.