Note to Self - Private Notepad

M Johnson

1 year ago

DO NOT UPDATE!!!! Just another developer putting once free features behind a pay wall. This latest update takes away the ability to use pictures in your notes. Never mentioned in the what's new description (I wonder why?) I guess we should all be grateful that this developer does not make cars, after driving our car home and parking in the garage, we would get a software update that requires paying to have access to start the engine. Look elsewhere, there are other notes apps that work.

Sebastian Silva Perkins (Bas)

2 years ago

It's my favorite note taking app right now, but it needs some things to become the best: Easy catagorization/color coding notes, diffect fonts and text effects (bold, italic, underlined, etc.) Strikethrough or 'to-do' list feature. That's all I can think of. Great app!

Alisha Stinger

2 years ago

I fell in love with this app. it is similar to a text message. With this app you can organize each text with a title and add ideas throughout the day or whenever and it logs the date and time of each App Request * I love this app - I wanted to ask if you could make it where there are groups. So it is more organized. For example a group for family and then we do our notes related to family - a group for work and notes on that group for work, etc ... I think this would be amazing !!!

Erin Dean

1 year ago

I'm really excited to see that someone else already had the same thought as me & brought this app to life. It's incredibly useful to have a memo app with an interface designed like a messaging app. You can create different threads for every topic then give it a title and a topic photo. You can type memos, leave voice memos, add pictures, edit the memos you already wrote, and lock the app using biometrics. Clean UI. Dark mode. Now would you just download it already?📲👍🏻

Nick Ruble

1 year ago

I don't think you've made an app I don't like. I switched from niagra launcher to olauncher and now to pro launcher and this notes app doesn't disappoint either! It feels like a messaging app only you're just messaging notes to yourself. Super minimalistic and simple but it's outside the box and makes jotting down notes as simple as writing as text message and it makes keeping them organized as simple as scrolling through chat threads. Absolutely love it ❤️

Julianna Nicoll

1 year ago

As other reviewers describe, the app no longer opens. For me it simply disappears with no bug error notice or anything just disappears. No prompt to update. Nothing. I too had many important notes that I unfortunately did not backup. This will cause a great deal of time and stress. Please fix this. Thank you.

Kimberly Parson

2 years ago

The platform it self is basic and easy to use. However it gets a 2 star review because IT DON'T SAVE the note you started. I use "Notes" to write super long letters to individuals so I depend on the saving of my progress. I just lost my 2nd letter to someone that I had a bit of time in just by answering a phone call because I left the app I guess. I get the saving it part is on me but really I lost a lot of word choices n everything 2 times already on just 1 letter.

Karl

2 years ago

Very nice app! The only things I would add would be a default category and a way to control the coloring assigned to the categories and rearrange them. Plus, I would have a way to make my default category open upon app launch and sync between devices. Otherwise, I love this app for quickly getting down thoughts in my mind! Would be happy to pay one time or annually for a premium version!

Liz

2 years ago

The lack of ads and the philosophy of pushing back against an increasingly advertisement-filled world and commodifying user data make this app fantastic. Also, UI is clean, the app works well, and the unique "messenger" style works well without sacrificing editability/it's use as a notepad. Definitely going to look into sending the dev(s?) a donation to show my appreciation.

drex

2 years ago

Really good app. Used it almost every day. For some reason it won't open anymore. It crashes and exits out of the app before I can do anything. I restarted my phone and the issue persisted. Unsure how to go forward with this error, but I hope it gets resolved. This is a nice app with an easy to use interface. I never had problems with it before.

Heather Hoekstra

1 year ago

I loved this app until I tried using it after Android 14 update. Now the fingerprint reader pops up but doesn't register the finger (it doesn't light up or respond with the haptic). The pin doesn't worth either. What's odd is that the app appears to open only to crash. Just won't open at all. I have lots of notes in the app and I will be upset if i can't access them. Will I lose the notes if I uninstall and reinstall? I have a pixel 7 pro.

Max Pfeiffer

1 year ago

This is by far the best note taking app I have used! The UI is amazing; love the messaging-like interface. Very stable performance. I'm a huge fan of my data being local-only (not being shared or stored on servers). In its current form, this app is amazing! If this app would add folder organization (with collapse feature), attachment support for add'l file types (txt/md/PDF/etc) and a companion app for PC/Mac to view/modify the backup data, it would be absolutely perfect! 🤌

Alexis Lopez

2 years ago

I really enjoy this note taking app. It's like you're having a conversation with yourself. Great for brainstorming. There are only a couple of things I wish it had. The first being the ability to hook up to a Gmail account, for example, and automate back ups. Second, the pictures of the app in the Play store look like dark mode is truly dark mode, where it's AMOLED friendly. When I set mine to dark mode, it's actually dark navy blue. Third, I wish I was able to change to color of each category.

Chris Clasby

2 years ago

This is a really useful app for jotting quick notes on a subject, and especially for me while using speech to text dictation. It sets up note books which look like text bubbles in a messenger app, and is such an intuitive way to handle thoughts or items on a list. I open it, click the mic, and start talking. When I'm done I basically send it like I would with a text message and it creates a bubble which is easily recognizable and easy to differentiate from other ideas on the same subject.

Medha Joshi

1 year ago

The original app was great. But like many others, I got no warning that the update would delete all my notes. Most of the content is reproducible, but I lost a couple notes that will be hard to recover. Some users are saying the second update restored their notes, but it did not for me. Additionally, when I started using the new app, messages no longer recognize carriage returns, so you can't make a list. Not sure why the developer made this change. it is not really usable like this.

Francis Onyebuchi

1 year ago

Did not realize how useful this was going to be. It is a note taking app that looks like a text message app conversation list. You can create different threads based on the subject of the notes. You can try messages, send it and have a time stamp. You can edit the messages. Supports voice messages and photo messages too. It would be nice to have the option to save the photos taken with the app when holding the picture or auto save to the gallery. Clean UI.

Sean Sullivan

1 year ago

I press backup, the app says "backup created successfully" and then shows a list of other apps I can share it to. I don't see an option to put the backup on my phone's storage, or any indication of where it might be stored already. The store page says the app allows for offline backups so I assume this is a bug.