Android

Notepad by Paraga

Stone

Mar 27, 2022 • 2 min read

Two reviews in one weekend? I got COVID on Friday and since then watched way too much Netflix. I finally got some energy to write up this review. Not a great app but I must try them all so here you are!

Notepad is a basic note taking app with an identity change in progress which confused me. On the plus side it has 12 nice note colors, a fast and clean UI, and Dropbox integration. On the down side it has no text formatting, really annoying ads right at the start, and costs $7.33 CAD to remove the ads.

Screenshots

Ugly

Ads right out of the gate at bottom of note
Made this note (white on purple) a widget and it was almost unreadable as a widget

Bad

No formatting
Play Store is Paraga Technology but Web site is Angkora Apps (old name)
In Play Store app is called Simple Notes but inside the app it's Notepad
Asked for a rating way too early
Showed a full screen ad too early
No audio recording
No image attachments
No inline checklist
No redo

Good

12 note colors, nice ones
Clean and fast UI
Nice default font and size
Star a note
Checklists
Grid or list view of notes
Can see date created and modified in info dialog
There's a revert, is that undo? weird popup for revert which wouldn't be needed if there was a redo
Filter favorite notes but would be better if it wasn't under a menu and instead a button on the main page
Sort by title, date created, modified, color
Dark theme
Backup and restore local
Categories
Trash bin

Great

Backup and restore to Dropbox
Love the 12 note colors

Awesome

They responded within an hour to my email
Speech to text to quickly create a note