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

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!

Super product!! Simple, clean user friendly interface! I have never seen such a well written product. It can synchronize notes between a windows desktop and multiple android devices. Sensitive data can be kept in a "safe" and the contents encrypted with a passcode. The data can be searched. Everything is done at lightning speed. It is so much better than using Outlook and third party synchronizing programs. I am so glad and thankful I found this app when I had to give up using Microsoft office. The author releases updates and is very responsive to questions user may have.

Seems like a solid app - I guess? The text is really tiny with no way to increase? Except to make it bold? Maybe there is a way but it's not intuitive nor easy to find. This app makes a big deal out of exporting to HTML to "save formatting," but the formatting it allows is limited. Some presets for headers and a couple other things. I don't want or need presets. Just let users choose text size. Easy. Or allow the page to be zoomed lol. But then the exported file, the text would be tiny. Oh well.

What's new

* Targeting Android 13, to comply with the newest Android requirements.