Mobile app · Office & notes
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
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