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Write, type, annotate, and zoom.
Mix handwriting, typed text, highlights, and PDF markup on a flexible canvas built for long study sessions.
Private notes for serious study.
Write, annotate, search, and turn PDFs into flashcards with local AI that keeps your work on your device.
No sign-up
Local AI
Encrypted vault
Core workflow
Everything a study notebook needs, without the cloud.
OffNotes brings notebooks, PDFs, handwriting, search, flashcards, and private AI together in one Android workspace.
Organize notebooks and imports.
Keep notebooks, planners, and imported documents in one clean library with quick access to recent files.
Search across study material.
Find matches across PDFs, OCR text, and ink-indexed notes so review starts at the right page.
Study mode
Turn notes into active recall.
Generate flashcards from notebooks and PDFs, then review the deck inside the same private app.
- One-tap card generation
- Difficulty labels for review
- Study sessions built for retention
Private by default
Your notes stay yours.
Export encrypted .mneme vault backups, restore privately, and protect access with app lock settings.
Encrypted vault
Export and restore secure backups.
On-device AI
Local study help without external AI calls.
No account wall
Open the app and start writing.
Web Workspace
Try the ink engine in your browser.
Sketch, annotate, and test the low-latency writing feel before installing the Android app.
Launch Web Workspace
Why OffNotes
The real cost of free cloud notes.
Cloud note apps optimize for sync. OffNotes optimizes for ownership.
Cloud note apps
- Data stored on company servers
- Accounts required before writing
- AI processing sent to external APIs
- Terms can change after you commit
OffNotes
- Your data stays on your Android device
- No sign-up needed to start studying
- Local AI and indexed offline search
- Encrypted .mneme vault export and restore
Leno assistant
A mascot with a job.
Leno is the friendly face of OffNotes: a private assistant for explaining features, guiding study workflows, and keeping the product approachable.
FAQ
Frequently asked.
OffNotes is designed around local storage, private study workflows, encrypted vault exports, and on-device AI features so your notes are not built around a cloud account.
The app is built for notebooks, PDFs, and document study workflows, including opening PDFs and other study files from Android file managers.
OffNotes can generate review cards from notebooks and PDFs, then lets you study the resulting deck with difficulty labels and review controls.
A .mneme vault is an encrypted backup format for exporting and restoring your OffNotes notebooks without handing your data to a cloud service.
Available on Android
Get it on Google Play
Start writing privately today.
No account. No forced cloud. Just your notes, your study material, and your device.