There are a lot of notes app available out-there but few apps who do it well. Well, Noto is one of them.
The goal of Noto, is to create a minimalistic, free, open-source note-taking application that meets customer expectations with privacy in mind.
Noto is also part of my portfolio projects. It showcases my skills regarding developing Android apps.
- Ad-Free.
- Private and secure.
- Small APK size (around 5 MB).
- Minimal, modern, and simplistic design.
- Light/Dark/Black/System themes.
- Support for devices with API 21 (Lollipop) and up.
- No explicit permissions are required.
- All data are stored locally on the device.
- Support for English, Turkish, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, and French languages.
- Material You (Material 3) support.
- Colorful folders.
- Folders archive.
- Folders vault.
- Pinned folders.
- Sorting folders alphabetically, by creation date, or manually.
- Folders widget.
- Notes archive.
- List and grid layouts.
- Auto save.
- Undo/Redo with history view.
- Undo/Redo swiping gestures.
- Reminders.
- Copy/Move/Duplicate note options.
- Word-count.
- Pinned notes.
- Sorting alphabetically, by creation date, or manually.
- Grouping notes by label, or by creation date.
- Notes widget.
- All notes view with search functionality.
- Recently accessed notes view with search functionality.
- Filtering notes using labels unique for each folder.
- Inclusive/Exclusive labels filtering.
- Full-Screen mode option.
- Do Not Disturb mode option.
- Keep screen on option.
- Quick edit (Jumping to the scrolled text).
- Export/Import all app data.
- Custom app icons.
- Remembering folders and notes scrolling position.
Contributions are always welcome! If you would like to contribute, please feel free to file an issue or create a PR.
If you would like to translate the app, please contact me via email.
Special thanks to Nuray Sabri and Alparslan Şakçi, Faus AM, Kernoeb, and Uli N for Turkish, Spanish, French, and German localizations respectively.
App icons use Collection of Gradients published by Geoffrey Crofte licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The app uses Clean Architecture with MVVM design pattern, and it's divided into 3 main layers.
Contains model, repository and data sources interfaces.
Contains database and repository and DAO implementations.
Contains all the UI logic.
Noto is distributed under the terms of the Apache License (Version 2.0). See License for details.