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Magpie

Tamper-evident incident journal with encrypted, self-proving exports.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Magpie is a note-taking mobile app, available on Android.

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
  • “People document disputes with a camera roll and a notes app, and months later it proves nothing: files re-save, dates shift, entries vanish.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Magpie is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

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

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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