Notally - Minimalist Notes

Om Godse

About this app

Notally is a minimalistic note taking app with a beautiful material design and powerful features.

Organization

Create lists to stay on track
Pin notes to always keep them at the top
Color and label your notes for quick organization
Archive notes to keep them around, but out of your way
Complement your notes with pictures (JPG, PNG, WEBP)
Create rich text notes with support for bold, italics, monospace and strike through
Add clickable links to notes with support for phone numbers, email addresses and web urls

Export notes in the following formats

• PDF
• TXT
• JSON
• HTML

Convenience

• Dark mode
• Completely free
• Adjustable text size
• Auto save and backup
• APK size of 1.2 MB (1.6 MB uncompressed)
• Add notes and lists to your home screen with widgets

Privacy

There are no ads, trackers or analytics of any kind. All your notes are stored completely on and never leave your device.

Permissions

show notifications, run foreground service

Used to display a notification if deleting images or importing backups takes time

prevent phone from sleeping, run at startup

Used by the auto backup feature to ensure backups keep happening even if your phone is restarted

Note

Due to a bug on Xiaomi's part, some MiUI devices might not be able to access the text formatting options.

All translations are crowdsourced, please email me to contribute or point out any errors.

https://github.com/OmGodse/Notally

Ratings and reviews

Came so close to being a 5 star app. 2 items need addressed. 1) Option to NOT display a date on a Widget. 2) Option to select font size used on a Widget. Both of these options are in Settings, BUT they are for the Editor. Pros: Open-Source (although I wish it was written in Java instead of Kotlin), no In-App Purchase to upgrade to full-features!, it's Ad-Free!, the Widget is scrollable!! Cons: None (in my opinion). Those who complain obviously didn't see the word "Minimalist" in the description.

Fast, has a nice and simple UI with good customization. Honestly fantastic for short notes and checklists. The only problem is that if you accidentally delete some text, there isn't an undo button so unless you have a backup, that text gone. Probably not a huge problem if you do short notes, maybe will be if you do long notes or edit a bunch.

Autosave barely works. I love this note app. Simple interface and no ads. But I've lost notes several times now. I edit my notes, and when I come back to the app a couple hours later, my notes appear as they were before I edited them. Frustrating! I'm gonna need to use a different app since this is a critical bug.

What's new

You can now record audio notes in Notally (Android 7 and above)

When navigating to the Search page, the keyboard comes up automatically