Home

Awesome

PFA Twitter Mastodon Translation status

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-notes/master/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png" alt="Privacy Friendly Notes Icon" width="120px" align="right" style="float: right; margin-right: 10px;" />

Privacy Friendly Notes

<img src="https://f-droid.org/badge/get-it-on.png" alt="Get it on F-Droid" height="60"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secuso.privacyfriendlynotes"><img src="https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/images/generic/en_badge_web_generic.png" height="60"></a>

This app lets you create and manage notes. Currently it supports four types of notes:

All of them can be saved on the internal storage or shared with other apps. You can also assign categories.<br />

This app belongs to the group of Privacy Friendly Apps developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. <br />

Motivation

Most apps for note taking need a lot of permissions and synchronize over the internet. Consequently they use some company service, that you have to trust. While this is a convenient feature, it weakens your privacy.<br />

Privacy Friendly Apps are group of Android applications which are optimized regarding privacy. Further information can be found in the [here] (https://secuso.org/pfa).

Building

Further development requires Android Studio, we recommend to use the latest version.

API Reference

Mininum SDK: 21<br /> Target SDK: 32<br />

Data Backup

You can use the Privacy Friendly Backup app to backup and restore this application's data. This can also be used to migrate your data to a new phone.

Translation

If you want to help translate this app, you can use Weblate.

<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/pfa/"> <img src="https://hosted.weblate.org/widget/pfa/notes/notes-android-app/multi-auto.svg" alt="Translation status" /> </a>

License

Privacy Friendly Notes is licensed under the GPLv3.<br /> Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Robin Morawetz<br /> Copyright (C) 2018-2021 Christopher Beckmann<br /> Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Maximilian Zimmermann<br />

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.<br />

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.<br />

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.<br />

The app uses icons licensed under the the [CC BY 2.5] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) and from Google Design Material Icons licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. All other images (the logo of Privacy Friendly Apps, the SECUSO logo) copyright SECUSO (2021-2024).<br />

Contributors

App-Icon: <br /> Markus Hau <br />

<a href="https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-notes/graphs/contributors"> <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=SecUSo/privacy-friendly-notes&max=100&columns=20" /> </a>