Note Safe - Private Notepad

In-app purchases
4.2
1.9K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

What people are saying:

🏆 One of the best apps of 2022. Sam Beckman
https://youtu.be/le_NWCfj9ho?t=616

🏆 ...the chat format for note taking is very convenient... overall, Note to Self is a wonderful note taking app. Gadgets Gig
https://youtu.be/L33YqxyTXG8?t=107

🏆 ...it often takes something very special to make them [notes apps] stand out. Note to Self has done just that. Sam Beckman
https://youtu.be/UQrDXCO6M8M?t=453


FEATURES:

💬 Chat interface • Making it one of the simplest, fastest and capable note taking app ever.

🕵️‍♂️ Completely private • All your notes, password protected, stay on your device and don't get transferred to any server without your permission.

🔐 • End-to-end encrypted cloud backup and sync is now available in beta.

📖 • Free and open-source under AGPL-v3.0 license.

💻 • App available for Windows. MacOS and Linux apps are coming soon; iOS version coming later.

🚫 Offline first • Can work completely offline. No Internet connection necessary.

🏙️ Attachment • Add as many images, videos or files as you want. Set images for note groups for easy identification.

🎤 Voice notes • Create audio notes with a simple long press, like chat apps.

📍 Location notes • Save your current GPS location.

📂 Folders • Create notes folders for easy categorisation.

🔍 Search your notes • Search your notes like you search your chats.

🔒 Biometric password • Save all your notes safely behind your fingerprint or Face ID.

🔠 Backup & restore • Create offline backups for your notes and store them wherever you feel safest. Please note that we do not keep a copy of your data so please keep creating backups regularly.


Thank you and have a wonderful day!
Updated on
8 Jun 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
1.86K reviews
103 Hasan Ali Malick
19 July 2025
This is by far my favorite note taking app. It's so simple and intuitive. Blazing fast too. But please developer there is one thing I would love so much it would replace the other note app I use alongside this and that is the availability of a simple widget you could put on your homescreen for the note category of your choosing. An important aspect is that it doesn't open up the app but just opens a pop-up with a keyboard to input your note. It'll make this app even faster than it already is.😍
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Francis Onyebuchi
4 August 2023
Did not realize how useful this was going to be. It is a note taking app that looks like a text message app conversation list. You can create different threads based on the subject of the notes. You can try messages, send it and have a time stamp. You can edit the messages. Supports voice messages and photo messages too. It would be nice to have the option to save the photos taken with the app when holding the picture or auto save to the gallery. Clean UI.
21 people found this review helpful
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Medha Joshi
15 December 2023
The original app was great. But like many others, I got no warning that the update would delete all my notes. Most of the content is reproducible, but I lost a couple notes that will be hard to recover. Some users are saying the second update restored their notes, but it did not for me. Additionally, when I started using the new app, messages no longer recognize carriage returns, so you can't make a list. Not sure why the developer made this change. it is not really usable like this.
31 people found this review helpful
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Phone Safe Inc.
18 December 2023
Hi Medha, this issue has been fixed in the latest update. Apologies for the inconvenience.

What's new

* End-to-encrypted cloud backup and sync
* Fixed: Input box overlap