Simplenote

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Rated for 3+
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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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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
A Google user
October 22, 2018
Searching in japanese is really broken after recent update. It will only match japanese text after a non-japanese character, and then wrongly highlight everything till a non-japanese character. Searching in between won't even return any results! For example searching あ in "あえいk" will wrongly highlight あえい, while searching for えい won't return any result at all. Also, I would like a search settings which allow you to search for tags only, or search for content only, or search for both. As tags go up to hundreds, it just become a clutter mess without search function. So please cater to people who have lots of notes; it really doesn't interfere with this app's simple note taking design philosophy.
5 people found this review helpful
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Automattic, Inc
October 26, 2018
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear this and we'd love to troubleshoot further with you. Would you be able to get in touch with more details? You can do that via the form here: https://simplenote.com/contact-us
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.
Mxolisi Masuku
September 5, 2026
I have used Simplenote for 5 years across multiple devices and absolutely love it! Do I use it everyday? No. But it's my go to app when I have an idea I just wanna write about, save and come back to it later. In a world where AI and feature blot is plaguing note apps, I am just glad this app kept it SIMPLE! Kudos to the developer. There is no need to fix a working model. You hit the holy grail with his app and I am happy you kept it there.
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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.