A simple, privacy-focused notes app for Android that keeps your notes exactly where you look dozens of times a day — your notification shade.
- 📌 Persistent Notifications — Every note appears as a notification that stays in your status bar until you're done with it
- 🔄 Survives Restarts — Notes are restored automatically after a phone restart
- ✏️ Add, Edit, Delete — Create notes with a title and optional description; edit or delete any note with a tap
- 📌 Pin or Unpin Anytime — Choose which notes appear as notifications; unpin a note and it moves back to the app without a notification
- ⚡ Quick Settings Tile — Add a "Quick Note" tile to your Quick Settings panel to open the add-note screen
- 🔍 Search — Filter notes by title or description
- 🎨 Material You — Material 3 with dynamic color on Android 12+; Light, Dark, and System themes
- 🔒 100% Private — No accounts, no cloud, no network access; your notes never leave your device
Download the latest APK from the Releases page.
- Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher
Noty requests only the permissions it needs:
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS — To show your notes as persistent notifications
- RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — To restore notes after a phone restart
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE — To keep notifications active in the background
No internet permission. No location. No data collection.
- Android Studio Meerkat (2024.3.1) or later
- JDK 17
- Android SDK API level 35
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/usamaiqb/noty.git
cd noty- Open in Android Studio or build from the command line:
./gradlew assembleRelease- The APK will be in
app/build/outputs/apk/release/
Noty:
- ✅ Does NOT collect any personal data
- ✅ Does NOT require internet access
- ✅ Does NOT contain ads or tracking
- ✅ Does NOT share data with third parties
- ✅ All data is stored locally on your device
For full details, see the Privacy Policy.
- Issues: GitHub Issues
- Discussions: GitHub Discussions
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.
- Kotlin — Modern programming language for Android
- Jetpack Compose — Declarative UI toolkit
- Room — Local database
- Material Design 3 — Modern design system
- Kotlin Coroutines — Asynchronous programming
See CHANGELOG.md for version history and changes.
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