Android Notepad by Braden Farmer A really fast, free, no-frills and open-source text/Markdown note-taking app.
Android Bublup: everyone likes bubbles! Bublup is fun to use, has a nice design, and has lots of options to share with friends and family. The free version gives quite a bit of functionality and for USD 2.99 a month, you can increase your storage
Android Drafting This app is incredible, launches really fast and you can start typing right away. It is local first, low-cost, supports Markdown and has a custom toolbar.
Android D Notes A great note-taking app with an incredible amount of functionality for free. A CAD 4.89 upgrade gets you cloud sync via Google Drive and more.
Android Material Notes An ad-free and basic note-taking app for quickly capturing text notes with a clean UI and a no-frills, super-fast user interface.
Android OneNote OneNote is fast, has many features, works on every platform, and synchronizes notes across all devices, for free. Export to PDF, work offline, format text, and link notes.
Android Noto Noto is a minimal, free, open-source, and fast note-taking app but it does not have any Markdown support. The UI is clean and it uses a nice font which cannot be changed.
Diary Diary by Bill Farmer Diary is another great open-source app by retiree Bill Farmer. It has a ton of functionality including Markdown support, advanced features like tables and text highlighting, and best of all it's fast and free!
Android Writeily Open-source, local-first Markdown note-taking app that is no longer being maintained unfortunately.
Android Notes by Bill Farmer and 1K subs! Notes is a fast, local-first, free, open-source note-taking app that supports Markdown!
Android Mind Notes Mind Notes is a #fail but could be one of the best note-taking apps if they fixed the bugs, implemented autocorrect, and removed annoying upgrade dialogs
Android MarkNote MarkNote is a local-first, open-source, Markdown app with a ton of functionality and all for free. You can back up and restore your files, synchronize them with OneDrive, and export them to PDF, HTML, or an image.
Android Leaf Note A great, fast, cheap, local-first, and customizable Android app that supports Markdown and sync via WebDAV.
Android Epsilon Notes Epsilon Notes is incredible, landing at the top of all of the apps that I've reviewed. It's well worth CAD 6.49, supports Markdown, and SD card access, local text files, and AES encryption
Android Note to Self A completely free, local first, ad-free, and fast note-taking app using chat-style messaging to yourself.
Android Graphite Graphite combines a Journal with note-taking and uses buckets to store files, supports images, hyperlinks, book notes, and movie notes.
Android Logseq Logseq is an open-source, local-first, block-based, outliner and task manager. It's fairly structured and notes and tasks are stored in a "graph". Notes can be linked together, you can record audio attachments, and include inline images which are all really nice features.
Android 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.
Android jtx Board jtx Board is an Open-Source, standards-based app with calendar integration, Markdown-based notes, and tasks.
Android 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,
Android 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
Android Notally If you need a fast, simple, minimalistic, extremely functional, free and local-first note-taking app with a lot of export formats, then Notally is refreshing!
Android Notesnook Notesnook is a privacy-first, zero-knowledge, open-source app that is well-designed and easy to use. It has almost every feature you could want in a note-taking app and then some.
Android 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?
Android 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.
