Material Notes
Material Notes is a free, open-source notes app for Android. Simple, local, material design notes. It has 297 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
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About Material Notes
Material Notes is a text-based note-taking application, aimed at simplicity. It embraces Material Design. It stores the notes locally and doesn't have any internet permissions, so you are the only one that can access the notes.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Material Notes from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.
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Is Material Notes free and open source?
Yes. Material Notes's source code is public on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Material Notes?
You can install Material Notes from F-Droid (package com.maelchiotti.localmaterialnotes) and from Google Play; the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v2.2.2).
Is Material Notes still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Jul 14, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Jul 16, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.