Just curious, why is Joplin's download so huge?

whitewall · 2021-01-26T12:59:15.283Z

I was really taken aback when I saw the download size for the Windows installer. It seems like video-editing-software size. I'm just curious why it's so big. I'm on a cell only data plan, so I notice things like that.

I'm not complaining in any way, and I know all things are relative. Just curious.

Daeraxa · 2021-01-26T13:08:11.805Z

It is built on electron so you have the automatic overhead of having Chromium stuffed in there to start with.
It is pretty comparable to other modern note apps and text editors from what I can see. Compared to Evernote at least:

Joplin 156mb
Evernote v10 (electron) 253mb
Evernote v6 (legacy) 127mb

whitewall · 2021-01-26T13:12:31.802Z

Daeraxa:

Evernote v10 (electron) 253mb

Holy cats, that's huge!

thanks!