FUTO Notes

FUTO

About this app

FUTO Notes is a note taking app that gets out of your way. No sign-in required to use, and it's all available offline. Private, secure, fast.

📁 Your notes are plain Markdown files in a real folder you own — open them in Files, back them up, and sync them with any app.

YOUR NOTES ARE FILES, NOT DATABASE ROWS

FUTO Notes works directly on a folder of Markdown (.md) files on your device: Documents/FUTO Notes. It opens, edits, renames, moves, organizes and deletes those files in place — including notes and folders it did not create, such as an existing vault you copied over from a computer, or files written into the folder by a backup or sync app while FUTO Notes is running. There is no import step and no proprietary database. The folder is the app.

That means you can:
• Edit the exact same notes in the Files app, on your computer, or in any other Markdown editor
• Drop an existing folder of .md files onto your phone and have it just work
• Back the whole folder up with any tool you already use
• Keep every note even if you uninstall

WHY FUTO NOTES NEEDS ALL FILES ACCESS

Reading and managing that document folder is what the app is for. It needs ongoing read and write access to a folder of Markdown documents in shared storage — including files it did not create and changes made to them by you or by other apps. Android's MediaStore covers only media files (photos, video, audio) and only entries an app created itself, so it cannot hold a vault of Markdown documents.

FUTO Notes therefore asks for the "All files access" special permission. You grant it yourself in Android Settings, after a screen that explains exactly what it is for — it is never granted at install. Beyond that, the app requests only internet access, and only for optional sync.

OPTIONAL END-TO-END ENCRYPTED SYNC

Turn on sync and your folder stays in step across your devices. Note contents are encrypted on your device before they are ever uploaded, so the server only ever holds opaque data. Sync is off until you turn it on, and you can point it at a server you host yourself.

Ratings and reviews

Nice notes app. I already use their keyboard app. A great feature is the "fenced" code blocks (between triple backquotes) with syntax highlighting, which works beautifully for yaml. I found the docs hard to find: they are at notes.futo.tech/docs; the app should link to there! As usual with futo the docs are well written, although perhaps a bit techy.

thx so much for this! i may be missing something, but, is there a way to share to this? its one feature of keep that i use a lot & would love to be able to share to the futo notes app from another app or from copied text etc.

An excellent, lightweight, and well-optimized note-taking app. It is simple to use and great for privacy—all notes are saved directly to local device storage offline.

What’s new

Taking a photo in a note no longer crashes. The app now asks for camera access first. Fixed sync over HTTPS to servers with public certificates. Fixed the keyboard closing at the start of a task item. Plus many editor fixes for pasting, typed formatting and Select all, and a fix for dropped letters when titling a new note.