noty
Noty — Notes in Your Notification Shade
Keep your notes exactly where you look dozens of times a day: pinned as notifications in your status bar. No ads, no tracking, no accounts, and no internet access.
Download the latest APK from the Releases page.
Help test on Google Play
We’re working on getting Noty published on Google Play. The app is already available there in closed testing, and we need real users trying it out to get it fully published.
- Join the Google Group (approval may take a few minutes)
- Once approved, opt in as a tester
- Install the app and open it a few times over the next two weeks
Thank you! This helps us reach far more users than F-Droid and GitHub alone.
Screenshots
Features
Notes
- Persistent notifications - Every pinned note stays in your status bar until you’re done with it
- Pin or unpin anytime - Choose which notes appear as notifications; unpinned notes stay in the app
- Survives restarts - Notes and reminders are restored automatically after a phone restart
- Add, edit, delete - Give a note a title and an optional description, and edit or delete it with a tap
- Search - Filter notes by title or description
- Reminders - Set a one-time date and time reminder on any note
App
- Quick Settings tile - Add a “Quick Note” tile to jump straight to the add-note screen
- Material You - Material 3 with dynamic color on Android 12+, plus Light, Dark, and System themes
- Settings - Choose the theme, toggle dynamic color, and decide whether new notes start pinned
- Fully private - Notes are stored only on your device and never leave it
Requirements
- Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher
Verification
Builds from this repository and F-Droid are signed with the same key. Verify the signing certificate rather than the APK file hash, since file hashes can differ between distributions while the certificate stays the same.
- Package:
com.noty.app - Certificate SHA-256:
C1:12:91:80:4C:FF:F1:C4:DF:08:BD:52:37:92:F6:4C:84:E0:3C:27:6A:B4:77:32:D9:FC:3E:3F:62:F7:8D:92
Check it with an on-device verifier app, or apksigner verify --print-certs <apk>, which prints the same value in lower case without colons.
Permissions
- **POST_NOTIFICATIONS** - To show your notes as persistent notifications
- **RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED** - To restore notes and reschedule reminders after a phone restart
- **FOREGROUND_SERVICE** / **FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE** - To keep pinned notes visible as notifications in the background
- **SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM** - To deliver reminders at the exact time you set
Noty has no internet permission and no location permission.
Building
Requires JDK 17 and the Android SDK (API 36).
git clone https://github.com/usamaiqb/noty.git
cd noty
./gradlew assembleDebug
The APK is written to app/build/outputs/apk/debug/. See CHANGELOG.md for version history.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome. Use Issues or Discussions for bugs and questions.
License
GNU General Public License v3.0. See the Privacy Policy for how the app handles data.