Simplenote

18.3K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
1M+
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About this app

Simplenote is an easy way to take notes, create to-do lists, capture ideas, and more. Open it, jot down some thoughts, and you're done. As your collection grows, stay organized with tags and pins, and find what you need with instant search. Since Simplenote will sync across your devices for free, your notes are with you at all times.

- A simple, note taking experience
- Sync everything across all your devices
- Collaborate and share
- Stay organized with tags
- Log in with your email or WordPress.com account

SYNC WITH CONFIDENCE
- Automatically sync seamlessly across any computer, phone or tablet.
- Back up and sync everything as you take notes, so you never lose your content.

COLLABORATE AND SHARE
- Collaborate and work together -- share ideas with a colleague, or write a grocery list with your roommate.
- Choose whether to publish your content to the web, and share a link with whoever you want.
- Publish directly to a WordPress site by connecting your WordPress.com account.
- Quickly and easily share with third-party apps.

ORGANIZE AND SEARCH
- Stay organized with tags, and use them for quick searching and sorting.
- Instantly find what you’re looking for with keyword highlighting.
- Use markdown to add formatting.
- Create to-do lists.
- Choose the sorting order of your notes and tags.
- Pin the notes that you use the most.
- Edit tags directly by renaming and reordering.
- Protect your content with a passcode lock.

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Terms of Service: https://simplenote.com/terms/

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Visit simplenote.com to download Simplenote for your other devices.
Take notes, create to-do lists, capture ideas, and more.
Updated on
Oct 1, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    App info and performance
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info and App activity
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

16.9K reviews
Car SalesIt
January 20, 2025
Don't want to see the full address of an internal link when accessing one note from another - I just want to see an underlined hyperlink name. Also, clicking on the internal link has no effect in itself, it can only be accessed by clicking on the text icon on the toolbar. In my case, clicking on the text icon momentarily opens the referenced note with a blue background, but it immediately closes, depositing me back to the list of notes. Something's going wrong. Also,why no spell check in Linux?
11 people found this review helpful
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Automattic, Inc
January 23, 2025
If you haven't done so, can you please reach out for support at https://simplenote.com/help/. If possible, please include some screenshots or a screen recording so we can better understand your problem. We're here to help! Thank you.
Alex
March 12, 2024
The benefit is the notes can handle large amounts of text, sync across devices is so nice to have, especially for free! But the android app keeps crashing in the background when having a very large (70k+ characters) note open, so if switching to a different app, Simplenote won't stay open in the background, so when returning to it, it restarts instead of resuming the session. Also, the search function is useless as it doesn't highlight the correct searched words.
5 people found this review helpful
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Automattic, Inc
April 10, 2024
Thanks for your honest review! We'd like to investigate these issue further with you. Can you let us know more details about the search and crash issues you're having at https://forums.simplenote.com/? We're there to help
A Google user
April 14, 2020
For better visual accessibility, this app needs to provide an option to preview Markdown with a sans-serif font (instead of the default serif one). Many people, including those with visual impairments, find sans-serif fonts easier on the eye and more comfortable to read (than serif fonts). Please add in some appearance customisation options like this for the Markdown preview please (especially for accessibility reasons).
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What’s new

All styles, including the pure-black AMOLED style, are now available to everyone. You can now search your collaborators, and typing in very large notes is faster. We also updated the app for Android 16 with support for the predictive back gesture, and fixed autocorrect on Samsung devices and issues with the History and Share sheets.