Google Keep - Notes and lists

Google LLC

About this app

Quickly capture and share your thoughts, manage your to-dos, and stay organized. Google Keep has all of the functionality you need, with advanced security and privacy measures to keep your information safe.

Capture what’s on your mind
• Inspiration strikes anywhere. Jot down a quick note, snap a photo of something you want to remember, or speak a voice memo on the go.
• Take advantage of widgets on your phone and tablet and add tiles and complications to your Wear OS device to quickly capture your thoughts.

Share ideas with friends and family
• Manage your grocery list or plan your next trip by sharing your Keep notes with others and collaborating.

Find what you need, fast
• Color and add labels to notes to quickly organize and get on with your life. If you need to find something you saved, a simple search will turn it up.
• Pin notes to your phone or tablet homescreen with widgets and add shortcuts to your notes with tiles on a Wear OS device.

The right note at the right time
• Need to remember to pick up some groceries later this week? Set a reminder to bring back your grocery list right when you need it.

Always within reach
• Keep works on your phone, tablet, computer and Wear OS device. Everything syncs across all of your devices so your thoughts are always with you.

Ratings and reviews

I used to enjoy this app, I used it all the time for a daily to-do list and would schedule it to pop up in the mornings so I don't forget. Now for whatever reason whenever you schedule something, it automatically creates a separate copy to your Google calendar app. I only discovered this when on top of my notes app notification, I also got one on my calendar app, my desktop, my tablet, and my laptop all pinging notifications of the "planned event" You also cannot disable this feature.

Although it's not perfect, I use google keep the most because of the incredible search feature and it's simplicity. The extra step needed to start taking a note is dumb, especially since you can already do all of those things from the Text version. It's pointless. My biggest wish is that the character limit for individual notes be removed. I almost never exceed the limit, but when I do, it is a real pain! Keep it simple, but limitless.

I like the app a lot and have used it for years. Recently however the search function appears to be broken. When trying to search for key words, the app will not show results correctly. I have tested this on various notes and the success/failure rate appears to be random. Sometimes it can't find words in the title and sometimes it can't find words in the body of the note. Other times, it finds key words correctly in either title or body. If this is fixed, I'd give the app a solid 4/5 stars.

What’s new

* Bug fixes and performance improvements