Mobile app · Office & notes

NearNote

Offline notes with location-based reminders, folders, and timeline.

Completely free
Android
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by F-Droid
License: GPL-3.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by F-Droid
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by F-Droid
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by F-Droid
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: No
Platforms: AndroidEstablished by Android: F-Droid
Distribution: Available on F-Droid
Publisher: Shreyans Jain
Latest version: 1.0.5 (22 October 2026)
Latest activity: 22 October 2026
Source code: gitlab.com/shreyans2799/clean-note

Overview

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

Features described in its F-Droid listing: reminders and due dates, offline use.

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

“Offline notes with location-based reminders, folders, and timeline” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
“Offline notes with location-based reminders, folders, and timeline” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
“NearNote is an offline-first notes app with location-based reminders, rich media, folders, and timeline organization.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
“Rich Media Attachments: Attach photos of notes, presentation slides, sketches, and documents directly to your entries.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of NearNote is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

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) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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