Android - Note Apps

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Graphite puts up a good fight

Combines a Journal with Note taking and has buckets to store files, images, hyperlinks, book notes, and movie notes

Logseq and you shall find

Welcome to my 56th Android note-taking app review! Logseq has been on my backlog for a very long time and ticks off most of the checkboxes for what I'm looking for in the best note-taking app. I didn't realize they had an Android app until someone on reddit corrected me.

Wondr Note

Wondr Note is perfect for a student, an event planner, a garage sale goer, a parent with kids into sports or crafts, or a small business owner. Basically, anyone who needs a place to keep track of their life, memories, or hobbies

Is the 54th note app the best one?

Clipto errata, cross-border notebook shopping, tags on posts, Obsidian doings, and app review #54 : jtx Board.

Clipto

Clipto's name is deceiving as it's so much more than a clipboard manager. It's one of the best note-taking apps that I've used. You can use it local-only or signup using email, Facebook, or SMS. It's very customizable and configurable, supports plain text, Markdown and you can export to PDF,

GNotes

GNotes is great for quick capture, it has so much functionality for free, plus a nice subset of features to entice you to upgrade. If it supported Markdown and rich text editing it would be a 9/10. That said, the Web UI has issues. It's super fast but none

Notally

Welcome to pit stop # 51 of this odd adventure that I'm on to find the best note-taking app for Android. Thanks for coming along for the ride. This week I tested Notally, I read a new book about taking notes and writing, and I sinned. Before I tell you about

Notesnook

edit: this post was originally published as part of my weekly review. I've separated out the newsletter content from the app review for people only interested in the app. Notesnook is a privacy first, zero knowledge, and open source app for Android that is well designed and easy to use.

Anytype

A cross-platform, crazy fast, "open" app with a good looking UI, linking of notes, graph view, inline images, cool bookmarking, templates and a lot more. But is it a note-taking app?

Grafobook

Grafobook is very good considering it was built in 10 days. It's open-source and free but unfortunately it appears that the development was a one-time thing and there have been no changes for a year.

EZ Notes

In earlier reviews, my "exec summaries" were very brief and for some reason I've been writing more lately. Send me a note and let me know if you prefer brief summaries or this extra verbiage. This week I played with a really interesting app called EZ Notes. I've spent more

SilentNotes

SilentNotes is a great, fast, Open-Source, secure, text-only note taking app that supports Markdown and tags and has many public cloud or private sync options. If it had image and audio attachments and sharing options it would be near the top of my list. Screenshots Meta * Score: 7/10 * Version:

Qlate

Happy Saturday! It's a beautiful cool sunny morning out here West of Toronto as I sit out on my front porch reflecting on the week, listening to Guardians of the Galaxy - Awesome Mix, and writing up this 45th weekly app review. Thanks to each of you who take the

Notes by Weather Radar

I was on staycation this past week so I'm taking the easy road for my app review today. There are a ton of apps that I affectionately call crapps in my head, i.e. crappy apps. I know it's not nice to call something crappy and I feel bad for

Diarium

Diarium is not a note app per se, it falls under the diary category but I really like it a lot for taking notes and I used it for the entire past week, 3 days of which I was on business travel. I heard about the app from Jez via

Journey

I've got through most of the good and great note taking apps that don't require subscriptions as that was my goal: find the best (local first) Android note taking app. If I've missed a great one that you use, please let me know! There are oodles of subscription-based note apps

neutriNote

neutriNote is a great open-source and free note taking app that supports Markdown, export to PDF or HTML or Markdown, backup and restore, inline images, location, and more! The UI isn't as fancy as some other apps and there's no WYSIWYG editing but this is definitely a top-tier app with

Notepad by Dmitry Nazarov

Notepad by Dmitry Nazarov is one of the best Android note taking apps out there. It checks off most all of the important features: offline first, fast, free, supports Markdown, inline images, linking notes, encryption, backup and restore, and tons of settings. He even has a Notepad.Lite version without

Omni Notes

This is one of the best note taking apps that I've used and it runs on older versions of Android from 5 and up. I love that it's fast, it's open source, it's free, and it has no ads! All that plus it supports inline tags, colored categories, audio recordings,

Orgzly

Orgzly is a completely free and open-source note taking and to-do app with an incredible amount of customization and multiple synchronization options including Dropbox, WebDAV, or a directory. On the downside the app does not support image or audio attachments, is not extremely attractive, and is not that easy to

e-Notty

e-Notty is a fairly good note taking app, supports several themes and has a lot of the necessary features. You can quickly create new notes with the Android widget, link notes together, create a note with your voice (aka speech-to-text), and have a note read to you (aka text-to-speech). I

Fast Notepad

True to its name, this app is fast but it lacks basic functions like text formatting and you can't attach an image or record audio. I like the note colors, clean UI, and that you can protect a specific note or the entire app with a password or your fingerprint.

Notas Notepad

A basic app from Seoul, Korea that I initially reviewed 7 months ago. It was not very good and then I found a few apps that looked exactly the same as this one just different colors. It appears that this is one of up to seventeen cloned note taking apps

Twos

Twos is a great, fast, and unique app for getting things out of your head and keeping track of them. I thoroughly enjoyed using it on Easter weekend and this whole week and I got more done than I usually do. At first I saw the app as more of

JotterPad

JotterPad is a great note taking app targeted at authors and playwrights although it can be used by anyone. It's fast and has all of the features needed including Markdown, WYSIWYG editing, version history, and publish to Ghost or WordPress! It's relatively expensive at $40/yr although "you get what