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Notes Tech

Encrypted Markdown notes, 100% local. No Internet permission.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

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

Features described in its F-Droid listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: Markdown support, voice input and commands, data encryption, code completion, full-text search.

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
  • “Notes Tech: Android encrypted Markdown notes app, with per-folder vaults, archive, multi-select, encrypted backup, Markdown import, reading cards, colours, PIN or biometric app lock, instant search, local Whisper…” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Notes Tech: Android encrypted Markdown notes app, with per-folder vaults, archive, multi-select, encrypted backup, Markdown import, reading cards, colours, PIN or biometric app lock, instant search, local Whisper…” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Notes Tech: Android encrypted Markdown notes app, with per-folder vaults, archive, multi-select, encrypted backup, Markdown import, reading cards, colours, PIN or biometric app lock, instant search, local Whisper…” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “SQLCipher AES-256 database, key sealed by the Android Keystore” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “[[Title]] backlinks with autocomplete + "notes linking here" panel” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “SQLite full-text search with Unicode tokenizer, normalized diacritics.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

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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