Mobile app · Office & notes
DailyBeat
Keep a local journal of your journeys, places and notes.
- Free, with trade-offs
- Android
- Open source
Overview
DailyBeat is a journaling mobile app, available on Android.
Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: themes and dark mode.
File formats mentioned: PDF and ZIP.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Choose local retention, delete records, and use light or dark mode.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Device speech recognition may use a network service.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “A phone-first Android journal for remembering where your day took you, adding notes, and reviewing a daily record.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
DailyBeat is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service, it depends on one specific server to work and it sends tracking data.
Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Weaknesses
- Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service
- Flagged by F-Droid: depends on the publisher’s online service
- Flagged by F-Droid: tracks user activity
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