I’ve been using the native Apple notes for years now. At first it was convenience, but at some point I thought about it and decided there was no reason to switch. It has shockingly reliable sync (for Apple), and the right number of formatting options for me. I wish it could syntax-highlight code blocks, but that’s not a universal use case.

Export is fine if you’re only moving a single note—it just strips formatting and shares it as plain text. Similarly, I don’t know if there’s a bulk import option. If you have a text file, you might need to copy-paste it into notes.

There’s an app called Exporter on the MAS that will export all your notes as markdown (with images in a side folder) just FYI. I believe it’s free.

It doesn’t work for large images due to some library limitation so any scans and photos taken within notes might not export correctly

If you enjoy using the Notes app, it should be fine.

I don’t like it because I find it clunky and restrictive. However I wouldn’t tell someone to not try it if it seems fine to them.

My experience with Notes is positive.

What I especially like is the simplicity overall and good sync between mac/iphone/ipad.

And that it works great offline.

I don't like the search either. It's a global style search, which means you can't constrain the search on a specific folder.

So if you have 1000s of notes in different folders, you're made to look through tons of irrelevant matches in different folders.

It's also somewhat clunky in syncing sometimes.

I am in same boat (long time keep user) h. How do you plan to migrate from google keep

If you want to export your Keep notes (and almost all of the metadata and media) into Markdown format, I helped write keep-exporter, a tool to accomplish just that.

It downloads the text content of the notes and the majority of media (some of the annotation stuff doesn't work quite right). So assuming another app supports markdown import, this would work.

https://github.com/ndbeals/keep-exporter/

(note, the version in PyPI is behind and I don't have access to update it, so pull from the repository instead)

It uses gkeepapi (https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi), but it looks like there's an official API now (https://developers.google.com/keep/api), so maybe Keep isn't going away anytime soon.