# Notes (Privacy Friendly) (open-source notes app)

> Notes (Privacy Friendly) is a free, open-source notes app for Android. (SECUSO) Notes App with minimal permissions and without advertising. It has 127 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

Privacy Friendly Notes allows you to take and manage notes on Android devices. It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More information can be found an secuso.org/pfa The following four types of notes are available: 1. Simple text notes 2. Checklist notes 3. Audio notes 4. Sketchnotes Furthermore, the notes can be grouped into categories, reminders can be assigned to notes and the notes can be exported to the device storage. How does Privacy Friendly Notes from other similar apps? 1. Minimal Permissions The permission "RECORDAUDIO" (Category "Mikrofon") is required to record audio notes.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-notes |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Kotlin |
| GitHub stars | 127 |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlynotes/ (package org.secuso.privacyfriendlynotes) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Notes.php |
| Official | no |
| Category | Notes & to-do |
| Latest release | v2.2.2 (Jun 15, 2026) |
| Last commit | Jul 28, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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