Snap Stats

It's been a while since I've looked at the metrics my snaps have, though the Joplin stats look kinda cool and I thought people might be keen on sharing.

For the metric below, a "Weekly active user" is where one user is identified as having checked for an update in the rolling 7 days prior. Snap checks for updates 4 times a day by default meaning you get a fairly accurate view of users over time; importantly, the number isn't a "Downloads" stat that only goes up, this figure can and does go down (e.g over Christmas you'll lose 10% on basically everything for a few weeks).


Each colour here is a version down to the patch level, so it's also implicitly just a colourful way of seeing Joplin releases over time.

This actually isn't even my only package of Joplin, there's a second hidden one I've been trying to get users off of since 2021.


Fair to say, some people really don't reimage their machines that often.

What will be interesting is that once the Windows and Mac apps are capable of Seamless Updates (Seamless Updates - Joplin Forum), the Joplin download stats page will become much more comparable with the way Snap/Flathub implicitly handle things.

On Joplin stats for 3.0.15 that's been out for a few weeks now, we'd have for example:
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That 9,457 Linux downloads is hiding behind 23,000 snap downloads, 10,000-12,000 Flathub downloads, AUR, and other repacks, meaning that in reality Linux would be at least ~45,000+ downloads alone (23 + 10 + 10 + extras), being 3x the size of Mac and almost on par with Windows.

(Looking for the Flathub graph? Try here Flathub Stats )

But ultimately, this needs to be compared against like for like, namely, Windows users actually also having auto updates, which currently they don't, although, they do have auto update notifications, so maybe the gap isn't that large.

Side stats

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I don't really have a point of this thread, but thought it might be cool for people to consider :slight_smile: - Linux might actually be the dominant OS for Joplin, or at least, it's surprisingly close!

(And I'm ignoring mobile, I know)

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