QOwnNotes
qownnotes/qownnotes-android
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Offline Markdown notes app that synchronizes with your Nextcloud server. Read, search, create, edit, and delete notes while offline, with conflict-safe sync using ETags. Supports CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, audio notes, widgets, and local folder management.
QOwnNotes is an offline-capable Markdown notes app for Android that synchronizes with your own Nextcloud server.
The Nextcloud Files Android app and a server with Nextcloud Notes API 1.2 or newer, provided by Nextcloud Notes or QOwnNotes for Nextcloud, are required for account setup. Nextcloud Files manages your login credentials. Its Single Sign-On library stores an account access token in QOwnNotes' private preferences, not in the notes database.
Features include:
- Read, search, create, rename, edit, and delete notes while offline
- Conflict-safe synchronization using ETags and durable pending changes
- CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown rendering and source editing
- QOwnNotes wiki links, task states, note naming, subfolders, and favorites
- Move or copy notes between subfolders and duplicate notes
- Share notes through public Nextcloud links with password protection and optional editing
- Reorder checklist blocks by dragging, or delete them with confirmation in the note preview
- Note tags shared with QOwnNotes desktop, with tag filtering in the note list
- Create, browse, search, edit, and archive Nextcloud Deck cards and insert card links
- Safe remote images and authenticated Nextcloud note attachments
- Home-screen widgets for note lists and selected notes
- Browse, edit, and delete bookmarks offline, and insert images while editing notes
- Record audio notes from the app or widget and play audio attachments in the app
- Light and dark themes on Android 9 and newer
- Browse and restore note versions and remote trash through QOwnNotes for Nextcloud or QOwnNotesAPI
- Search across note versions with match counts, highlighted excerpts, and preview match navigation
QOwnNotes contains no advertising, analytics, or developer-operated telemetry. Notes are stored on the device and synchronized only with the Nextcloud server selected by the user.
Images load automatically when a note is opened. Remote HTTPS images contact the hosts referenced in the note, which can see your IP address and request metadata. The note menu's "Load images" toggle can disable image loading for the current view; it resets to enabled when the note is reopened. Nextcloud note attachments are loaded from your selected server through Single Sign-On.
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Uses the microphone to record audio notes. Data is stored locally and synchronized with a user-configured Nextcloud server.
Permissions
- Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS Send you notifications
- Microphone RECORD_AUDIO Record audio RECORD_AUDIO
Release notes
[26.11.0] - 2026-11-10
Added
- Use a local folder without Nextcloud
(#47). Choose Use a local folder
on the first screen, or Add local folder in the account menu or account management, to keep
notes as Markdown files in a folder laid out like a QOwnNotes desktop note folder, for example
one synchronized with Syncthing. Notes are edited offline, written to the files without a network
connection, and refreshed from changes made by other programs, which become conflicts instead of
being overwritten. Subfolders, images, attachments, audio notes, favorites,
notes.sqlitetags, and a restorable trash are supported. Nextcloud accounts are unchanged. - Refresh when opening the app setting, enabled by default. Opening or returning to the app refreshes only the active account, skips synchronization already in progress, and waits five minutes between attempts, including failed attempts. Manual refresh remains immediate.
Changed
- Development and release deployment automatically prefer the sole ready USB-connected physical
device, with a numbered device selector when the target is ambiguous and
ANDROID_SERIALoverrides. - Update Gson and Android build, code-generation, formatting, and dependency-update tooling.
- The account menu now says Add Nextcloud account next to the new Add local folder action.
- The store listing and README show the setup screen with the choice between a Nextcloud account and a local folder, and describe local folders.
- Split CI device tests into three app shards and a separate library job, preserving independent reports and replacing full-suite retries with bounded runs. Avoid duplicate Dependabot CI runs.
Fixed
- Nextcloud synchronization and account import failing with a
LinkedHashMapcast error after the Gson update, by updating Nextcloud Single Sign-On to 1.3.5.
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