CLUSTER TEXT-ANDROID-NOTES · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-05-21
Android note-taking apps
This cluster consists of 12 Android-focused note-taking and to-do applications, with features spanning plain text, rich text, reminders, widgets, synchronization via cloud or Git, and export options. The dated entries span from August 2012 to November 2025, appearing as isolated single-month releases with long multi-year gaps (e.g., 2016–2018, 2021–2023), suggesting sporadic, thin activity. The traction leaders by activity signal are android-knot-bin, Nextcloud Notes, and Leafpad, each with 0 stars, showing no meaningful traction advantage.
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 · 3 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 2 commercial · 10 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Mynotes3★10 days—hand-codedhobbyAndroid notes app for capturing notes with attachments, link previews, customizable themes, and backup/restore.
- 02k5-does0★2 days—hobbyPersonal note capture app that turns raw text into structured items and displays them in a simple list.
- 03android-knot-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceAndroid app that combines to-do lists, notes, and a reader, with companion desktop clients for editing tasks and notes.
- 04Leafpad0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceMinimal text editor app for creating and editing notes on Android, with no permissions or cloud dependencies, preserving user privacy and simplicity.
- 05neutriNote CE0★1 moliveopen sourceAll-in-one note-taking app that stores text, math, and drawings in searchable plain text with backup and synchronization.
- 06GitNote0★2 moliveopen sourceNote-taking app for Android that stores notes as real files and syncs them with Git repositories like GitHub.
- 07PromptNote0★1 mo—indieAndroid notes app that saves rich text notes and previews AI-generated HTML snippets in a searchable card interface.
- 08Notally | Minimalist Notes0★4 moliveopen sourceAndroid app for taking notes with reminders, lists, images, rich text, and export to PDF, TXT, JSON, or HTML.
- 09Notepad - Simple Notes & Memo0★4 molivecommercialSimple note-taking app with search, widgets, colors, and automatic saving for jotting thoughts and lists.
- 10Another notes app0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceSimple note-taking app for Android with text and checklist notes, labels, reminders, and search across all notes.
- 11Notepad0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid app for simple note-taking with support for plain text, rich text, sharing, and import/export.
- 12Silinote0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceApp for keeping single-line notes such as addresses, links, and reminders, with search and text file import and export.
- 13QuickNotes0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceAndroid app for capturing and organizing notes, with optional AI-assisted tagging and reminder notifications.
- 14NoNonsense Notes0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSimple notepad and to-do app with reminders, widgets, password protection, and sync.
- 15Note!0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialPlain-text note app for quick notes, sorted by modification time, with passcode lock and pinch-to-zoom text sizing.
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.