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

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.

My experience is very brief but already love it. I like tags over folders. One crazy wish I hoped was as common as checklists. There are items I would love to timecode. In other words bought a product and want to know the days/weeks/months/years since purchased. This would set the app apart from all the others. The coding is not difficult. Add feature to checklist to optionally include age. Why no import from onenote or other note taking apps? Love the fact I can keep local if desired.

Compared to many other free note taking apps, this one truly impresses. Every notepad app I checked had some sort of catch that made it unusable. My new phone didn't come with a notepad app, and I missed my old LG app that had everything I wanted plus more, and this one fills that gap. This may not have all the bells and whistles, but at least it has all the features I consider bare minimum, for free, without signing up, and without requiring a network, and without ads. Bravo!

What’s new

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