While the vast majority of users access the Play Store to discover and install New applicationsFortunately, there are free repositories where you can find alternatives that more than meet your expectations. Some examples are Fossify, a package to replace Google services, or Gallery, a simple gallery in the style of Google Photos.

There is much more; the important thing is to find well-programmed and designed applications. Today we share an alternative to Google Keep because yes, we prefer to have our notes stored on our mobile phone than in the cloud. As if that were not enough, follow the Material You guidelines and how could it be otherwise? It is completely free.

Easy Notes is a simple note manager. Markdown compatible and beautifully designed

As soon as we install it from the GitHub repository or the alternative F-Droid store, we find an interface that could come from Google itself: The material you design, the sliders, the accent colors… It’s visually very nice, which makes it extremely intuitive to use.

Apart from that, it acts like any other note application, yes, it does not complicate the process in any way. Do we want to create a new note? The sliding button at the bottom puts it on a plate for us. Then, in a simple (but complete) editor, we can create notes containing: Marking formatIt makes it possible to add bold, italics, text quotes, and even underline.

This editor is divided into two parts: on one side the editing tool where we will write the notes, on the other side the preview of the note that will show us the result. It is also worth mentioning that it cannot be missing the boxes that we can mark with a touch, otherwise it could not be called a notes application.

In its settings we find an extensive list customization optionsin addition to changing the visual appearance, being able to activate the minimalist mode that eliminates the buttons on the editing screen, with accent colors that follow those created in the system or, on the contrary, personalized by the user: dark mode, or even a dark mode that turns grays into pure blacks for AMOLED screens.

The radius of the interface elements can also be changed, obtaining more or less rounded edges to our liking. Also from the Easy Notes configuration we get: support from our notes, it will be very useful if we change smartphones or reset to factory settings.

It is possible to encrypt the notes database with a password to prevent any other user from invading our notes. privacyIts developer boasts of constant updates, as well as a no less important fact: the app does not ask for a single permission, so it remains hidden.

How can we install it on our Android mobile phone? The first thing will be to enable the unknown sources option so that the system allows us to install APK files. Then just download it from the GitHub repository or from F-Droid.

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