Notally - Minimalist Notes is an open-source, privacy-first notes app with a clean Material Design. It offers reminders, lists, pinning, rich text, image attachments, and cross-format exports, all while keeping data on-device and free of ads. With 100,000+ total downloads and 2.3K in the last 30 days, it holds a solid 4.29 rating from 1,653 ratings.
Pros & Cons
Open-source and privacy-first with no ads or analytics
Lightweight, offline storage, and a small APK footprint
Rich text support and media attachments
Free to use without monetization barriers
Lacks built-in calendar integration, password protection, and some advanced task features found in competitors
About Notally - Minimalist Notes
Notally - Minimalist Notes is a productivity app developed by Om Godse.
Download Statistics
Notally - Minimalist Notes has been downloaded 110 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.3 thousand times.
User Ratings
Notally - Minimalist Notes is rated 4.29 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.7 thousand ratings.
App Information
Notally - Minimalist Notes is FREE to download. The APK download size is 1.80 MB. The latest version available is 6.2. The last update was on May 20, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Notally - Minimalist Notes requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2020.
Description
Notally is a minimalistic note taking app with a beautiful material design and powerful features.
Organization
• Set reminders to be on track • Create lists to stay organised • Pin notes to always keep them at the top • Color and label your notes for quick organization • Archive notes to keep them around, but out of your way • Complement your notes with pictures (JPG, PNG, WEBP) • Create rich text notes with support for bold, italics, monospace and strike through • Add clickable links to notes with support for phone numbers, email addresses and web urls
Export notes in the following formats
• PDF • TXT • JSON • HTML
Convenience
• Dark mode • Completely free • Adjustable text size • Auto save and backup • APK size of 1.2 MB (1.6 MB uncompressed) • Add notes and lists to your home screen with widgets • Search within notes to find what you need quickly
Privacy
There are no ads, trackers or analytics of any kind. All your notes are stored completely on and never leave your device.
Permissions
show notifications, run foreground service
Used to display a notification if deleting images or importing backups takes time
prevent phone from sleeping, run at startup
Used by the auto backup feature to ensure backups keep happening even if your phone is restarted
Note
Due to a bug on Xiaomi's part, some MiUI devices might not be able to access the text formatting options.
All translations are crowdsourced, please email me to contribute or point out any errors.
https://github.com/OmGodse/Notally
Recent changes: New features • Search inside notes • Adaptive colors in widgets
Updated Dutch translation Fixed crash when deleting images/audios
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Comments on Notally - Minimalist Notes for Android
★★★★☆Robýn Rockoslavson· Jan 25, 2026
It's great in terms of automatic backup feature. However, it lacks time stamps in notes. Only adds a date when you create them. I think the developer should add this.
★★★★☆Paul Thomas· Mar 21, 2026
I love Notally! It's the perfect replacement for Google Keep for those looking to break free from that ecosystem. I do get concerned when an app hasn't been updated in a while though. I start to wonder if it's been abandoned, which would be a real shame for Notally. One feature that would improve it is being able to change the order of the notes. Thanks, Dev, for creating such a great app!
★★★★☆Heena shabhai· Jul 15, 2025
Notally is a simple and clean note-taking app with a minimal design that's easy to use. It helps organize thoughts quickly without distractions.
★★☆☆☆Angelica Jane A. Lebadisos· Apr 10, 2025
I'm very disappointed, I like it, but there still few things that is a miss. Like You can't undo something and this caused me to lose something valuable since I'm a music addict, and I List all of my music her when I accidentally press a wrong button which cause to delete all the music I've been listing and FOR YOUR INFORMATION I was very tired listing all of them since there's a thousand of them now It causes me to lose my patience don't even mind my Grammar, and it also missed themes.
★☆☆☆☆AR Chowdhury· Dec 4, 2025
This app does not have undo/redo option, which is very important. And there is a backup option, but no restore option, strange.
★☆☆☆☆Mary Power· May 27, 2025
I did something stupid 😖 I uninstalled/ reinstalled this app because I could not get rid of an unwanted widget - and ALL my notes and lists have disappeared - including all my hard-to-remember email passwords... all lost and possibly permanently locked out 😭 God! I hate when this happens. HELP! HEEELLLLP 😭
Google Play Rankings for Notally - Minimalist Notes
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Technologies used by Notally - Minimalist Notes
Notally - Minimalist Notes is requesting 9 permissions and is using 15 libraries.
Trust & Safety: Notally emphasizes privacy: no ads or trackers, and all notes stay on-device. It requests permissions for foreground service, notifications, boot completion, and optional audio-related features to support backups and reminders. The app is open source and provides a GitHub link for transparency.
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
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Android Jetpack core
Glide
Subsampling scale image view
prettytime