Correct snap paket

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Hello,

I would like to install the joplin app in Ubuntu 20.04. I found 4 snap pakets that looks like the same:

$ snap info joplin-james-carroll
name:      joplin-james-carroll
summary:   A free, private note taking and to-do app!
publisher: James Carroll
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/joplin-james-carroll
contact:   https://github.com/MrCarroll/joplin-snap
license:   MIT
description: |
  Joplin is an open source, free note taking application. Designed to be capable of replacing
  Evernote, Joplin is privacy conscious and can be be used without signing up for an account, but
  optionally supports synchronising your files with a file host of your choice and with optional end
  to end encryption.
snap-id: zQPAnuViY9DC9lfY5ssBe8IcDbFg5rsi
channels:
  latest/stable:    v2.4.9 2021-09-29 (71) 162MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                            
  latest/beta:      ↑                            
  latest/edge:      ↑

and

$ snap info joplin-desktop      
name:      joplin-desktop
summary:   A free, private note taking and to-do app!
publisher: James Carroll
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/joplin-desktop
contact:   https://github.com/MrCarroll/joplin-desktop-snap
license:   MIT
description: |
  Joplin is an open source, free note taking application. Designed to be capable of replacing
  Evernote, Joplin is privacy conscious and can be be used without signing up for an account, but
  optionally supports synchronising your files with a file host of your choice and with optional end
  to end encryption.
snap-id: bJW03EkiFdbjIuk3MBBoc51n1DcHw70B
channels:
  latest/stable:    v2.4.9 2021-09-29 (19) 162MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                            
  latest/beta:      ↑                            
  latest/edge:      ↑

Does anyone know what is the difference and is their a recommended version ?

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There isn't a difference between the two but pick joplin-desktop. joplin-james-carroll only recieves updates because there's no way to automatically migrate people over to the newer name, but eventually when the amount of users decreases I'll stop updating it, even though this is likely a long way off at the moment.

Officially though, Joplin only supports the AppImage version.

The other 2 snaps are very different, one is the command line version of Joplin (joplin) which is still maintained (but not by me) and the other is a very old version of Joplin with the GUI that hasn't recieved any updates from its maintainer in over a year.

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I have moved your topic to the #support category. The template for the #apps category specifically states the following:

!!! This category is not for questions or requests !!!

If you wrote an app, script, tool, this is the place to

  • promote it
  • document it
  • make it available to others
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