Notes (PFA)
Create and manage notes
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App description
Android App Analysis and Review: Notes (PFA), Developed by Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Listed in Lifestyle Category. Current Version Is 2.0.3, Updated On 19/04/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Notes (PFA). Achieved Over 14 thousand Installs. Notes (PFA) Currently Has 162 Reviews, Average Rating 4.4 Stars
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/pfaThe 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 , die im Google Play Store requires 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 Password Generator distinguishes from many other weather 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
Twitter - @SECUSOResearch (https://twitter.com/secusoresearch)
Mastodon - @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social (https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research/)
Job opening - https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Job_Offers_1557.php
We are currently offering version 2.0.3. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.
We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.
It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.
What's New
Neue und gewünschte Optionen für die Darstellung und die Benutzung der App wurden hinzugefügt.
Korrektur von kleineren Fehlern.
Korrektur von kleineren Fehlern.
Recent Comments
Kaleb Schafer
I really appreciate apps that are made with the users privacy in mind and this one is no different in that aspect. It is as fancy as anyone would really need without having unnecessary features that clog the interface and it doesn't pointlessly try to do more than an app like this should do. All of this makes this app great. The problem however is that some of its features just dont work. You can't sort manually, and the option for alphabetical order is bugged. It really needs more basic polish.
A Google user
EDIT 2019/05/20: Accidently hit "delete" button on a list. The list is gone :( I still think its at least 4 star because of the privacy centered philosophy; buy please do a "undo" button or a "are you sure" prompt Love the privacy oriented philosophy, and that it's simple to use. Only reason why not 5 stars is that I would have liked to see: 1) ability to edit checklist items and 2) ability to change the order of the checklist items.
Konrad Halupka
Used to be a neat, user-friendly app. The latest update was not good, however. It introduced a menu for text formatting (bold, italics) and a kind of memo which informs the user to which category the note belongs. As a result, when you start to write and the keyboard is on, you can see just one-two lines of your note (the remaining area of the screen is occupied by the menus and keyboard). Not very useful when you want to edit your note, not just read it.
János Sándor Répás
With the latest updates you have destroyed the usability of this simple app. Until now the notes have been displayed in the order they were created. Now they are displayed without any logic, in a quite random order, wich is not even alphabetic... Such a same!
Neu Rome
Would you please add a simple capability to delete individual items from a checklist? The delete button instead deletes the entire list! Counter-intuitive. I'm sure others have accidentally deleted entire list this way too. Thanks for working for pro-privacy apps! Much appreciated.
Cat C
Easy to use, does what says on the box, small footprint (small matter on today's phones but shows good coding skills) and most importantly not intrusive like many other similar apps in Store: doesn't require permissions beyond what needed to do its job.
Keith
This app is great. I can have confidence that it isn't spying on me and I can easily take notes. I would like to have the option to export my notes database and import my notes database. This would allow me to manually backup my notes for later.
Murali Mohan
A simple, superb user-friendly app with the required features. Request: Adding SHARING to THIS from other apps will be highly useful.