CLUSTER NOTE-NOTES-TAKING-2 · 19 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-07-26
Offline note-taking apps
This cluster consists of note-taking applications that emphasize offline functionality, letting users capture, organize, and sync notes without continuous internet access. The dated history before the index shows sporadic entries spread from March 2015 through May ief, with no sustained pattern; the largest single-month entry count is 2. Driftnote leads traction with 5 activity stars, followed by snotes (2 stars) and suur (1 star,
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 8 hobby · 2 indie · 1 commercial · 5 open source · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01notemcp0★1 mo—hobbyMobile-first notes app for quick capture without organizing, automatically threading follow-up notes and installable directly to a phone's home screen.
- 02Nocean0★21 daysliveopen sourceOffline note-taking app that creates rich-text notes with custom fonts, inline media, search, themes, and zip backups, all stored privately on-device.
- 03RejBoard0★10 days—hobbyLocal-first whiteboard and note-taking app that lets users draw, write sticky notes, and organize boards on their own device without an account.
- 04never-leaves0★5 days—hobbyOffline document drafting app that turns personal notes into draft documents using a local language model with network access blocked.
- 05Simple Notes, Notepad & Lists0★1 moliveOffline note-taking app for quickly writing and organizing short notes and lists without accounts, ads, or internet access.
- 06keep0★4 days—hobbyOn-device notes app for iOS and Android that stores notes locally with no backend and no account.
- 07memory-mesh0★26 days—hobbyOffline-first mobile app that interconnects personal notes and concepts into a graph and uses spaced repetition for long-term retention.
- 08Ethic Notes0★18 daysliveopen sourceAndroid note-taking app that saves text offline without any permissions and supports exporting and importing notes as files.
- 09My Notes - Take notes anywhere0★1 moliveopen sourceOffline note-taking app that allows users to create and view text notes on Android devices.
- 10WeNote - Notes, Notepad, To do0★2 molivecommercialMobile app for offline note-taking with color-coded notes, to-do and shopping lists, calendar reminders, and PIN or biometric locking.
- 11react-native-mininotes0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyMobile note-taking app for quick notes and tasks with categorization, dynamic filters, and offline storage.
- 12MoeMemos0★25 daysliveopen sourceMobile app that captures quick notes and ideas locally or with a self-hosted server, supporting tags, search, and offline access.
- 13Speech Note0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceNote-taking app that transcribes, reads, and translates notes offline using local speech-to-text and machine translation with no internet.
- 14NotedUp: Notes and Groups0★2 yrabandonedliveindieOffline mobile note-taking app that lets users capture and categorize notes into groups without ads, logins, or internet access.
- 15Q Notes - Take notes easily0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedMobile note-taking app for quickly creating, tagging, and grouping notes into categories, with iCloud sync and no data collection.
- 16little memo: Easy note taking0★5 moliveindieMobile note and checklist app for quick offline lists with tap-to-check items, drag reordering, and no accounts or cloud syncing.
- 17note_app0★8 mostale—hobbyOffline-first mobile note-taking app with cloud sync, full-text search, and a guest mode for use without an account.
- 18Noxus0★1 yrabandoned—hobbyMobile reading app that lets users take notes while reading, with offline access and synchronized categorization of annotations.
- 19SmartNotes: Simple Note Taking0★7 mostaleliveMobile note-taking app for organizing notes into categories with color themes, pinning, search, and on-device storage without an internet connection.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.