Page 2 | Best Free Note-Taking Apps of 2026

Supernotes

Supernotes is your new home for ideas, records, tasks, and lists. Enjoy efficient note-taking without the hassle. No more bloated files for taking notes. Create simple yet powerful digital note-cards with rich and varied content, like math equations, tables, images, checklists, and emojis. Organise your note-cards into a hierarchy that suits you. Use filters, search and sorting to find any note, anywhere. Establish links between your thoughts, something never possible with a traditional document. Your content is stored securely on our servers, making them accessible from all of your devices. You can keep your cards to yourself, or collaborate on them with friends & colleagues in real time! We understand that you don’t have much time on your hands, Supernotes takes care of lots of things for you, so you can focus. No formatting, no downloads, no loading screens. It just works!

Starting Price: $8.32 per month

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Standard Notes

Your notes are encrypted and secured so only you can decrypt them. No one but you can read your notes (not even us). Keeping our app simple means you'll spend less time fighting and more time writing. It's faster and lighter than most notes apps. Our apps are built carefully to optimize overall lifetime and long-term survivability. Standard Notes is free to use on every platform, and comes standard with cross-platform sync and end-to-end privacy. For those wanting a little more power and flexibility, we created extended, which unlocks powerful editors, themes, and automated backups. All your data — no matter if you’re using a PC, a phone, a tablet or a gaming system — is encrypted everywhere you don't control. On our servers. On our network. On a public network. In the cloud. On mars. Whenever your information moves anywhere away from your direct control, it will be seriously encrypted with a passcode that no one else in the world knows but you.

Starting Price: $2.48 per month

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RemNote

Build a life-long knowledge-base to organize your thinking and learning with powerful referencing and linking features. Create flashcards and practice with spaced repetition to deeply learn any body of knowledge. Link notes and ideas to supercharge your memory, organization, and thinking skills. Create flashcards directly within your notes to rapidly break down and remember any body of knowledge. Consolidate knowledge in your long-term memory with a personalized spaced-repetition learning schedule. Super-fast global search turns your notes into a lifelong knowledge base and library. Easily share documents (including flashcards) with teams, students, peers, or the world.

Starting Price: $6 per month

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Agenda

Agenda is a date-focused note-taking app for both planning and documenting your projects. From business professionals and technical users to students and artists, Agenda is for anyone wanting well-organized and easily navigable notes that help drive your projects forward. Agenda’s unique approach of organizing notes into a timeline helps to drive your projects forward. While other apps focus specifically on the past, present, or future, Agenda is the only note-taking app that tracks them all at once, giving you the complete picture. Take notes for what is currently on your agenda, while you prepare another for an upcoming meeting. Either by typing them or using the Apple Pencil on your iPad, your pick. Use older notes as breadcrumbs to remind yourself why you took the actions you did. You can attach dates to individual notes, and even link them to events in your calendar. But you can also put them “On the Agenda”. Notes that are On the Agenda are given special status.

Starting Price: Free

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Bubbles

Bubbles is an AI-powered notetaker and async collaboration platform designed to eliminate unnecessary meetings and boost productivity. It automatically joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet calls to record, transcribe, and summarize discussions with key action items. Users receive instant summaries, to-do lists, and video highlights that make follow-ups effortless. Beyond meetings, Bubbles enables rich asynchronous communication through screen recordings, voice replies, and time-stamped video comments. All meeting notes and recordings are securely organized in one collaborative workspace for easy access and sharing. With Bubbles, teams stay aligned, save time, and focus on meaningful work instead of endless calls.

Starting Price: $12/member/month

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TagSpaces

TagSpaces UG

TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.

Starting Price: $39 per year

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Daybook

The next-generation Journal safeguards your memories and helps you to reflect upon past experiences, and analyze and improve yourself. Beautifully designed to be easy to use and sync across multiple devices. Create, read out and search journal entries through Alexa, Google Assistant, and Bixby. Daybook is a free, passcode-protected personal diary, journal, and notes app for IOS. Daybook helps to record activities, experiences, thoughts, and ideas throughout the day. It lets you organize your created diary/journal entries or notes from the past in the easiest way. Daybook enables you to write a private diary, memoir, journal, and notes in the most natural way and record memories in an organized manner. Supports guided journal for tracking mood and activities, Mental Health Journal for managing stress and anxiety, Gratitude journal, self-improvement, and more. Gather insights using a mood analyzer from your activity log & mood log.

Starting Price: $29.99 one-time payment

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Zinnia

Pixite

Zinnia is the most fun and creative way to keep a digital journal and planner. Enjoy calendars, trackers, stickers, washi, and more, with new content added every month. Mindfulness has never been easier. Get into the healthy habit of recording your day, goals, priorities, and special moments. Daily reminders will keep you in the habit and on the path toward a more mindful and organized self. A variety of fun-but-practical journaling templates provide a colorful structure: habit trackers, to-do lists, weekly logs, and more. With Zinnia for Mac, enjoy big screen creation, comfortable keyboard typing, and easy referencing of external browsers to copy-paste photos, hyperlinks, and more! Create on your computer and sync across iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) for an unparalleled workflow. Zinnia is the most expressive way to document the things that matter most to you. Keep a diary, and create a collage or scrapbook.

Starting Price: $9.99 per month

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Scrintal

Scrintal is a visual note-taking and mind-mapping tool that helps people clearly think and write creatively. It is an online whiteboard where you can visually organize, group, and connect your thoughts. So you can see both the high-level overview and details of your notes at a glance in one place. As opposed to other mind maps, you can write and add as many images or media in Scrintal as you want and connect each piece via backlinks. Scrintal is a visual alternative to managing your personal knowledge management.

Starting Price: $5/month/user

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Saga

Write, edit, and share in a clutter-free workspace that's easy to use, making collaboration a breeze. Say goodbye to overwhelming interfaces and hello to simplicity. Saga makes working together feel incredibly fast! Open pages, write, and search in an instant. Real-time syncing ensures a quick, smooth experience for everyone. Saga links pages for you automatically. This helps you see the big picture and move quickly through your knowledge base. Easily search information across your workspace with seamless integration to Google Drive, Linear, and more. Keep using the tools you love. Boost your creativity and productivity with Saga AI, a clever assistant that answers questions, generates content, and helps you brainstorm ideas—all within Saga. Easily spot connections between pages and reveal new relationships across your knowledge base.

Starting Price: $6 per user per month

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MadNotes

Department of Web

MadNotes PRO is a lightning-fast, easy-to-use solution that helps you stay in the zone while working. It’s an ideal tool for professionals who frequently switch between browser tabs – marketers, programmers, journalists, and students alike – MadNotes PRO transforms every new browser tab into a productive space for note-taking, content storing, and on-the-fly editing. This tool transforms every browser tab into a powerhouse workspace. Main Features: ✔️Rich text formatting ✔️Synchronization ✔️Unlimited docs ✔️Security by default ✔️Dark & Light Mode ✔️ Privacy Settings Download the MadNotes browser extension from the Chrome, Edge, and Firefox browser stores, or try it on the web.

Starting Price: $3

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Fabric

Fabric.so

Fabric is an all-in-one AI workspace designed to act as your second brain, helping you capture, remember, and organize everything effortlessly. It allows users to store notes, files, links, media, and ideas in one centralized place without manual organization. With instant capture through voice notes, quick typing, or one-click saving, Fabric makes it easy to get ideas out of your head fast. Its AI understands the content inside your files, from concepts in documents to visual details in images. Smart search lets you find anything instantly by simply describing what you’re looking for. Fabric also enables brainstorming, summarization, and discussion across folders, notes, and files using AI. Built for individuals and teams alike, Fabric keeps work connected, searchable, and always accessible across devices.

Starting Price: $4.67/month

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Frame

If you have ever dreamed of experiencing the MacOS experience but built for business - Frame is for you. In a Nutshell: 📱Frame comes with 5 apps: Notes, Tasks, Wiki, Whiteboard and Goals ⚡Our design principles are: Minimalism: we go back to the core of what you need in each app (think Apple Note or Medium) Interoperability: seamlessly refer docs across apps (e.g., insert a link to a note from the whiteboard) Collaboration: co-create in real-time docs in every app.

Starting Price: $9 per month

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Ideaflow Notes

Ideaflow

Ideaflow is an AI-powered notebook with instant capture, voice notes, and more. We're building the lowest friction way to capture fleeting insights, important links, and tidbits of information for all the projects and people you're working on, helping, or connecting. We’re creating an ecosystem for humans and machines to work together to solve the world’s most important problems – starting with a notebook that augments your intelligence.

Starting Price: Free

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Rimo

Rimo is a high-performance AI notetaker designed to capture, summarize, and structure meetings securely and accurately. It delivers real-time transcription and AI-powered summaries across multilingual meetings with support for 30+ languages. Rimo integrates seamlessly with popular meeting platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Webex. The platform removes noise and filler words to produce clean, readable meeting minutes. Enterprise-grade security ensures no AI training on your data, with full encryption and compliance certifications. Teams can collaborate on meeting notes and insights in real time. Rimo helps organizations reduce note-taking effort while preserving clarity and decisions.

Starting Price: $9/user/month

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SNote

SNote is the privacy focused workspace designed for exceptional productivity and collaboration. Privacy without Compromises State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption keeps your notes and files secure. We can't read your notes or access to your files, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode - it’s just the way that SNote works. Every note, every file, every time. Collaborate Without Insecurity Privately collaborate with only the people you want on Projects, To-Dos, Tasks and Shared Files. All with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. All with a realtime end-to-end encryption. We call it eye-to-eye. Infinitely Configurable Data Smart, encrypted, and customizable data tables offer endless possibilities for efficient and secure work processes. Using data tables, you and your team can easily tailor tables to your specific needs while ensuring sensitive information remains protected.

Starting Price: $8

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Voicenotes

Voicenotes is the easiest and most intuitive way to capture your thoughts and bring them to life. Instead of typing or jotting down notes, just speak your mind. Our app allows you to record your ideas, transcribe them automatically, and use them to create anything from a detailed blog post to a quick tweet. Plus, with our innovative “ask your AI” feature, you can interact with your notes to ask questions and get reminders, ensuring you never forget or miss important details. Record new ideas, family moments, meetings, podcast takeaways, anything. Ask your AI to review past notes or brainstorm new ideas, it has a perfect memory. Create a summary, to-do list, blog post, and more using your notes. Intelligent suggestions, 50+ languages, and a zillion small things. Available on the web, iOS, Android, and soon on smartwatches. Commitment to privacy, longevity, and beauty. Go ahead, and record a quick note; there's no sign-up required.

Starting Price: Free

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Narafy

Whether you’re looking for a quick answer to a question that’s buried in your notes or want to find that one note but are struggling to think where you put it, Narafy helps you find what you're looking for. Automate your workflow, so you can focus on what matters. Stacks are a fresh way of working. By combining tags together, you can easily create different stacks of notes. Have multiple stacks on the go, create new combinations, and as your notes grow, grow your tags too. Get it straight from the source with Narafy’s web clipper. Your notes are stored on your device, making sure you always have access to your notes, even without an internet connection. Our data syncing instantly and securely syncs your notes to the cloud, making them available across your devices. We're also thoughtfully integrating AI capabilities in a targeted way based on each use case, rather than just layering AI on top of standard note-taking features.

Starting Price: $5 per month

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Brite

Your All-in-One Planner App: Tasks, Calendar, Habits & More for Effortless Productivity. Brite combines all essentials in one app. Plan, check, and streamline effortlessly. Swap app clutter for simple, organized brilliance with Brite! View your whole week. All tasks, projects, events, and docs in one spot. Ditch multiple calendar apps for seamless, stress-free planning. Quickly craft to-do's, manage tags, and prioritize with Brite. Smart alerts keep you on track. Manage projects using Brite: ideal for personal and work goals. Utilize our kanban board, collaboration tools, and real-time goal tracking. Craft notes and docs with Brite's intuitive editor. Share ideas on iPad using slash commands and collaboration tools. Manage schedules with Brite's calendar. Get daily to monthly views, set reminders, and sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple for seamless planning.

Starting Price: $3.29 per month

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Heptabase

Heptabase empowers you to visually make sense of your learning, research, and projects. To truly make sense of what you've learned, visualize your notes with whiteboards, sections, and mindmaps. Bring all your highlights, annotations, PDFs, journals, and research notes together to discover new insights. Manage complex projects with clarity and flexibility by using powerful tags and properties. And of course, full offline access with blazing-fast speed. Sync and access your notes across unlimited desktop devices, mobile devices, and web browsers. Access all notes and files without an internet connection. Search, load, and edit your notes with blazing-fast speed. Heptabase is a visual note-taking software specifically designed to help you learn and research complex topics, establishing a deep understanding of things you care about. The design of Heptabase focuses on helping you better "understand the topics you care about," rather than simply "taking more notes."

Starting Price: $8.99 per month

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Scribbl

Scribbl's AI meeting note taker captures your meetings and uses AI to ensure you never miss anything and can always get back to the most important moments quickly. You'll never take meeting notes the same again. Scribbl is your AI meeting assistant and will save you loads of time. With Scribbl you can automatically transcribe or record video on any call. Rest assured that Scribbl won't send a creepy bot to listen in on your meeting. Once the call ends your meeting notes will pop up in a new tab. Our meeting transcription AI is top in class. Once the call ends, our AI note taker will break down the meeting into a digestible set of topics that will allow you or your team to quickly get a grasp of what was being discussed. You'll never take notes the same way again. By combining your meeting's video, transcript, and AI, you'll be able to find any moment in your call with ease. Sharing with anyone inside or outside of your team is a breeze.

Starting Price: $20 per month

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Amplenote

Alloy.dev

Amplenote is a productivity app that combines note-taking, task management, and calendar planning in one platform. It helps individuals and teams capture ideas, organize them, and turn them into actionable plans. Users can take notes with rich formatting, tags, and backlinks to connect ideas like a personal wiki. Task management is built-in, with a unique Task Score system that prioritizes based on urgency and importance. The calendar view integrates with Google Calendar to keep everything in sync. Available on web, iOS, Android, and desktop, Amplenote works offline and offers end-to-end encryption for security. It’s ideal for students, professionals, and anyone looking to boost productivity.

Starting Price: $5.84/month/user

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NoteX

Sota Labs

NoteX is a modern note-taking and productivity application designed to help individuals and teams organize their thoughts, tasks, and projects in one easy-to-use platform. Built with a clean, user-friendly interface, Notex allows users to create, edit, and categorize notes quickly, making it simple to capture ideas, manage to-do lists, and store important information in a structured way. Notes can be organized using tags, folders, and color codes, giving users full control over how their content is displayed and accessed. Whether used for personal planning, professional collaboration, or creative brainstorming, Notex offers flexible tools to meet diverse needs. Its cloud-based system ensures that all notes are securely stored and synchronized across devices, so users can access their information anytime, anywhere. Notex also supports collaborative features, allowing teams to share notes, comment, and work together on shared projects in real-time.

Starting Price: Free

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Epiphany

Epiphany is a frictionless voice-to-action app designed to capture fleeting ideas before they are lost. Users can speak their thoughts, and choose a ready-to-go action, and Epiphany delivers instantly. It allows for capturing notes, dictating delegations, creating tasks, triggering agents and automation, and adding to-dos, all from one place connected to tools already in use. With minimal user effort, tasks can be delegated with just two clicks, ensuring a seamless experience. Epiphany helps free up mental space by instantly capturing and organizing thoughts, facilitating efficient collaboration by sending ideas to frequently used tools. It offers multilingual flexibility, capturing speech in the user's preferred language, and archives every entry for easy reference anytime. It is optimized for both right-handed and left-handed users. Epiphany integrates with various platforms, including email, and more integrations are forthcoming.

Starting Price: $14 per month

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Irma AI

Get Irma AI – Effortless and discreet meeting notes Irma is the easiest AI meeting assistant for individuals who want to automatically capture meeting notes. Unlike traditional tools that join your meetings as bots or require calendar access, Irma works quietly in the background — no invites, no disruptions. Whether you're using Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or something else entirely, Irma supports all meeting platforms. It records audio directly from your computer (and microphone), meaning it works with private accounts and even in confidential or sensitive conversations where bots aren’t welcome. No bots. No calendar connections. No platform limits. Just open Irma on your Mac or Windows desktop, and it’s ready to go.

Starting Price: $14/month

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Coconote

Coconote is an AI note-taking app that turns lectures, meetings, videos, and documents into organized notes, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and even AI chat, supporting over 100 languages. You can record or upload audio, video, documents, YouTube links, and more; Coconote then instantly transcribes and structures your content into clear notes and summaries. It offers features like quiz and flashcard generation, AI chat (“ask your notes anything”), multi-device sync, and support for uploads and recordings across many media types. The app is designed to help users capture, review, and study smarter, without manual transcription or note writing. On mobile, it can be used to record lectures and generate study materials on the go. It aims to free users from taking notes manually by automating the entire process, producing polished educational content from raw inputs.

Starting Price: Free

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CollaNote

CollaNote is a versatile note-taking and PDF markup app available for iPad, iPhone, and Mac that blends handwriting, sketching, collaboration, and AI tools in one environment. You can choose from over 25 pens and brushes, stabilize handwriting for smoother writing, and use infinite paper with customizable templates. CollaNote supports importing and annotating PDFs, slides, images, and documents, exporting notes to PDF, and backing up via iCloud for seamless syncing. It includes translation tools (for over 90 languages), flashcard creation with media, real-time collaboration across users, and password-protected notes. AI-powered features include a built-in AI calculator for handwritten notes, smart drawing tools (auto shapes), AI sticker generation, and writing assistance. The app also supports audio recording synchronized with handwriting, enabling you to replay lectures or meeting moments in context.

Starting Price: Free

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Freenotes

Freenotes offers a digital note-taking experience that blends the feel of writing on paper with powerful AI enhancements. You get realistic pen strokes that mimic lifelike handwriting as you sketch or take notes, along with tools like handwriting-to-text conversion, stickers, and various brush styles. Your notes sync via iCloud and multi-cloud backups. Freenotes supports PDF annotation, letting you mark up, highlight, and translate text directly in your documents; you can also insert hyperlinks to other pages or external web content. It enables picture-in-picture video mode and split-screen support so you can take notes while watching course videos or lectures. With its built-in AI assistant, you can take a screenshot or upload a document and receive instant answers or content summaries. To stay organized, notes can be grouped into folders, and a quick search lets you locate what you need fast.

Starting Price: Free

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Noteful

Noteful is a digital note-taking and annotation app optimized for handwriting on iOS devices that blends fluid pen input with powerful document tools. You can write naturally using Apple Pencil or touch input; its custom ink engine records strokes as scalable vector ink, and you can switch between three brushes (ballpoint, fountain, highlighter), sizes, and colors. Beyond handwriting, Noteful supports importing PDFs and Office documents, annotating with typed text, images, and shapes, and layering multiple paper templates within a single notebook. Notes can be organized flexibly via hashtag tagging (including nested tags), rather than rigid folder structures, and you can browse content by tags or pin important pages. It offers a layer system so you can annotate without altering base content, hiding or reordering layers as needed. Editing tools include a precise eraser, lasso selection for moving or resizing content, unlimited undo/redo, and split-view multitasking.

Starting Price: Free

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Kilonotes

Hefei Stack Top Information Technology

Kilonotes is a digital note-taking and PDF reading app designed to support students and professionals with an intuitive handwriting experience and versatile study tools. It allows users to record class notes, mark up PDFs, complete exercises, study online lessons, and organize reading notes in one place, positioning itself as a reliable study partner. The handwriting function mimics the natural feel of writing on paper, while customization options let you personalize notebooks and layouts. Kilonotes also includes a variety of photo editing tools and a split-screen function so you can take notes while watching videos or lectures. Its recording feature makes it easy to capture spoken content alongside notes for later review, and the app provides tools to quickly extract key points from study material. A unique card-based learning mode allows users to transform notes into flashcards to reinforce knowledge retention.

Starting Price: Free

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Best Free Note-Taking Apps - Page 2

Compare the Top Free Note-Taking Apps as of April 2026 - Page 2

Supernotes

Standard Notes

RemNote

Agenda

Bubbles

TagSpaces

Daybook

Zinnia

Scrintal

Saga

MadNotes

Fabric

Frame

Ideaflow Notes

Rimo

SNote

Voicenotes

Narafy

Brite

Heptabase

Scribbl

Amplenote

NoteX

Epiphany

Irma AI

Coconote

CollaNote

Freenotes

Noteful

Kilonotes

Best Free Note-Taking Apps - Page 2

Compare the Top Free Note-Taking Apps as of April 2026 - Page 2

Supernotes

Standard Notes

RemNote

Agenda

Bubbles

TagSpaces

Daybook

Zinnia

Scrintal

Saga

MadNotes

Fabric

Frame

Ideaflow Notes

Rimo

SNote

Voicenotes

Narafy

Brite

Heptabase

Scribbl

Amplenote

NoteX

Epiphany

Irma AI

Coconote

CollaNote

Freenotes

Noteful

Kilonotes

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