Install on Microsoft Windows™
Download the latest Windows archive from QOwnNotes Releases on GitHub (look for a file called QOwnNotes.zip) and unzip it to anywhere you like. There is no installation needed!
Warning
If you want to use the automatic updater please make sure you unzip it to a place where your user account has write access to. By default, your user account most likely doesn't have write access to places like C:\Program Files (x86) or C:\Program Files.
You can then directly run QOwnNotes.exe from your QOwnNotes folder, no installation is required.
Portable mode
Use QOwnNotesPortable.bat to run QOwnNotes in portable mode where everything (including your notes) will only be stored in your QOwnNotes folder.
Tips
You don't need the portable mode if you just don't have Administration permissions to your computer. QOwnNotes doesn't need to be installed!
Windows 8.1 and older
Qt dropped support for Windows XP with version 5.8, but QOwnNotes is now also built with Qt 5.7 to allow Windows XP users to still use it. Windows 8.1 has issues with the regular QOwnNotes build, because it was built on a newer Windows SDK.
You need to download the ZIP file from AppVeyor yourself and unzip it to a folder of your liking.
You can then directly run QOwnNotes.exe from that folder, no installation is required.
Info
The automatic update mechanism does not work with the AppVeyor build for Windows XP! You will have to download new releases yourself.
Chocolatey
There is a community-maintained package of QOwnNotes at Chocolatey.
You can install it with:
choco install qownnotes
Scoop
There is a community-maintained package of QOwnNotes at Scoop. If you add the Extras bucket, you can use it to install QOwnNotes in portable mode.
scoop bucket add extras
scoop update
scoop install qownnotes
WinGet
There is a community-maintained package of QOwnNotes for WinGet.
You can install it with:
winget install qownnotes
MSYS2
There is a community-maintained package of QOwnNotes for MSYS2.
You can install it with:
pacman -S mingw-w64-qownnotes