Notes

about

description

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 "RECORD_AUDIO" (Category "Mikrofon") is required to record audio notes. In case this permission is not granted by the user (in Android versions higher than 6) it will not be possible to record audio notes. "WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" (Category "Speicher") is used to export notes to the device storage. In case this permission is not granted by the user (in Android versions higher than 6) it will not be possible to export notes. Beside the permissions above the permission “RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED” (Category “Normal/non-critical”) is required to reschedule notifications after a reboot. This permission cannot be modified by the user. For comparison: The Top Ten of similar apps from the Google Play Store require an average of 11,7 permissions (in December 2016). These are for instance the location permission or the permissions to access, modify or delete storage. 2. No advertisement Moreover, Privacy Friendly Notes distinguishes from many other applications in the way that it completely relinquishes advertisements. Advertisement might track a user's actions. It could also shorten battery life or use mobile data. You can reach us via Bluesky - @secusoresearch.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/secusoresearch.bsky.social Mastodon - @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research/ Job opening - https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Job_Offers.php

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-09T10:03:38.562068+00:00

last event

2026-06-15 06:44 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

source & build

repository

https://github.com/secuso/privacy-friendly-notes

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

1 release indexed; latest 2.2.2.

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

2.2.2 — pfa-notes-release-v2.2.2.apk

sha256

61657558984b830fb4c17e15ba961d61fd50833e33ff9840485b7de75958935c

size

8.1 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

105

apk cert sha256

466d66dc058f73043e5e9bdd5606fdaec19d8f80c47f44c1807d65775d735c3f

download

pfa-notes-release-v2.2.2.apk

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