Safe Notes
Safe Notes is a free, open-source notes app for Android. Encrypted, Private note manager. It has 292 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
About Safe Notes
★ Safe Notes is an open-source project that aims to provide an encrypted, private note manager. ★ Employs rigorously tested AES-256 encryption standards to encrypt your notes. ★ Incognito Keyboard ★ Brute-force protection ★ Protection against data snooping via adb ★ Android background snapshot protection ★ Inactivity guard ★ Automated encrypted backup ★ Arctic Nord style dark and light theme ★ Customization for colorful notes ★ Seamless migration to new device. Use the backup to move your data from one device to another device. ★ Safe Notes provides ultimate security - you don't have to trust us, or any other third party because everything is done locally on your phone.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Safe 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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What is Safe Notes?
Safe Notes is a free, open-source notes app for Android. Encrypted, Private note manager. It has 292 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
Is Safe Notes free and open source?
Yes. Safe Notes's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-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 Safe Notes?
You can install Safe Notes from F-Droid (package com.trisven.safenotes) and from Google Play; the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v2.3.0).
Is Safe Notes still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Jun 21, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on May 5, 2023. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.