SilentNotes

Martin Stoeckli

About this app

SilentNotes is a note taking app which respects your privacy. It doesn't collect personal data, runs free of ads and is an open source (FOSS) software. Write your notes in a comfortable WYSIWYG editor with basic formatting like headers or lists, and synchronize them end-to-end encrypted between Android and Windows devices.

Beside writing of traditional notes, you can also create to-do lists to keep track of your pending tasks. Additionally the notes can be password protected with your own password, and quickly found with a full-text search.

✔ Take your notes wherever you are, and share them between your Android and Windows devices.
✔ Write the notes in an easily operated WYSIWYG editor.
✔ Create To-Do lists to keep an overview of your pending tasks.
✔ Protect selecte notes with a user defined password.
✔ Organize and filter the notes with a tagging system.
✔ Quickly find the right note with the full-text search, just by typing a few letters.
✔ Store the notes to an online-storage of your choice (self hosting), this allows to synchronize them between devices and offers an easy backup.
✔ Currently supported are the FTP protocol, the WebDav protocol, Dropbox, Google-Drive and One-Drive.
✔ The notes never leave the device unencrypted, they are end-to-end encrypted and can only be read on your devices.
✔ A dark theme is available for more comfortable working in dark environment.
✔ Use basic formatting to structure your notes and make them more readable.
✔ Get a note back from the recycle-bin if it was deleted by accident.
✔ SilentNotes does not collect user information and requires no unnecessary privileges, thus the name silent notes.
✔ SilentNotes is an open source project, its source code can be verified on GitHub.

Ratings and reviews

Almost a perfect notes app. It's truly free to use, has offline & online backup functionalities and is easy to use. There are a few small nitpicks I have with the app though. Firstly, if you scroll down a note & then swap apps the note always resets back to the top which is annoying for longer lists. Secondly, it would be nice to be able to easily separate between checkboxes by double pressing enter instead of having to change it to a headered line. Apart from that though the app is fantastic

Five stars for perfect app. but can you add option to show text right-to-left for arabic language. edit2.and to be able to export notes to text files also. edit3. and to be able to import text notes to the app as I now copy and paste note by note to migrate to your assume app. edit.4 and option to hide tags below note and hide Add tag box. edit5. plus sign should disappear when scroll down. thanks

The app works as described. Being able to string my notes across multiple devices with either importing or exporting them by hand or using an online cloud storage is a lifesaver. And with it being FOSS, it's nice to have a peace of mind that it can last forever. If there is to be a free and open-source way to sync data over a LAN or direct Wi-Fi as an option, instead of having to use a limited or proprietary situation for that, this app may be future proof all around.

What’s new

* Create and restore backup.
* User selected font for notes.
* Update of TipTap editor from 2.8 to 3.3 with dependencies.