Simplenote

Name: Simplenote
Author: Automattic, Inc

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Take notes, create to-do lists, capture ideas, and more.

Simplenote: notes and to-do lists synced across devices

By Hafiz Rahman

Editor, tools and utilities

Notes and to-do lists that sync across all your devices
Tags and pins to keep a growing collection in order
Search that finds matching text across every note
Share a note by link or publish it to a WordPress.com site
Shared notes for a colleague, a roommate or a grocery list
Log in with an email address or a WordPress.com account

A plain notes app for lists and quick ideas

Simplenote is built for jotting things down quickly: notes, to-do lists and ideas you want to keep before you lose them. The listing describes it as a simple note-taking experience with little to set up, and the main work is the writing itself. It suits people who want a notes app without a lot of formatting or structure to manage.

Notes are kept in one collection that grows over time. Tags and pins, covered below, are the tools the listing offers for keeping that collection usable.

Syncing notes across phone, tablet and computer

Simplenote syncs your notes to any computer, phone or tablet you log in on. The listing says sync is free, and backups happen as you write, so the latest version of a note is saved without a separate save step.

You can sign in with an email address or with a WordPress.com account. Sign-in is what ties your notes to the same collection on each device.

Organizing notes with tags, pins and search

Tags let you group notes by topic, so a project, a trip or a shopping list can be found from one place. Pins keep chosen notes at the top of the list so the ones you return to most are easy to reach.

Search covers the text of your notes, so you can find a single line from an old list without scrolling through the whole collection.

Sharing, collaborating and publishing to the web

You can share a note with someone else so you both work on it, such as a list of ideas shared with a colleague or a grocery list shared with a roommate. Sharing is also how a note reaches people who are not using the app.

For public use, you can choose to publish a note to the web and send anyone a link to it. If you connect a WordPress.com account, notes can be published directly to a WordPress site. The listing also says notes can be sent to other apps from the share menu.

What's new

Oct 1, 2026

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.

About this APK

The build we hold is Simplenote 2.38 (APK) for Android 6.0 and up.

Version: 2.38; 186
Requires Android: 6.0+
Size: 12 MB
Target Android: 15

Package ID: com.automattic.simplenote
Format: APK
Malware scan: Clean on 67 engines
Permissions: 9 declared
Signed by: O=Automattic Inc
Certificate SHA-256: b026087f08da58ef18573241cc81107aa2aa9783a38051f6d6f0eb01544e146e