About Notes (PFA)
Privacy Friendly Notes allows you to take and manage notes on Android devices. It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More information...
Privacy Friendly Notes allows you to take and manage notes on Android devices. It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More information can be found an secuso.org/pfa
The following four types of notes are available:
1. Simple text notes
2. Checklist notes
3. Audio notes
4. Sketchnotes
Furthermore, the notes can be grouped into categories, reminders can be assigned to notes and the notes can be exported to the device storage.
How does Privacy Friendly Notes from other similar apps?
1. Minimal Permissions
The permission "RECORD_AUDIO" (Category "Mikrofon") is required to record audio notes. In case this permission is not granted by the user (in Android versions higher than 6) it will not be possible to record audio notes.
"WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" (Category "Speicher") is used to export notes to the device storage. In case this permission is not granted by the user (in Android versions higher than 6) it will not be possible to export notes.
Beside the permissions above the permission “RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED” (Category “Normal/non-critical”) is required to reschedule notifications after a reboot. This permission cannot be modified by the user.
For comparison: The Top Ten of similar apps from the Google Play Store , die im Google Play Store requires an average of 11,7 permissions (in December 2016). These are for instance the location permission or the permissions to access, modify or delete storage.
2. No advertisement
Moreover, Privacy Friendly Password Generator distinguishes from many other weather applications in the way that it completely relinquishes advertisements. Advertisement might track a user's actions. It could also shorten battery life or use mobile data.
You can reach us via
Twitter - @SECUSOResearch (https://twitter.com/secusoresearch)
Mastodon - @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social (https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research/)
Job opening - https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Job_Offers_1557.php
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Notes (PFA) since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-29 08:07:02.
The latest version is 1.4.4 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 22:48:43. See below the changes in each version.
Notes (PFA) version 1.4.4
Updated At: 2024-01-11
Changes: This version fixes a few bugs and updates the app to work with Android 14.
Notes (PFA) version 1.4.2
Updated At: 2023-05-09
Changes: Fixed some bugs which crashed the app.
Notes (PFA) version 1.4.1
Updated At: 2022-12-02
Changes: - Save button now saves correctly
- Fixed small bug which crashed the app
Notes (PFA) version 1.0.2
Updated At: 2021-01-27
Changes: Added new icon and integration to backup application
Notes (PFA) version 1.0.1
Updated At: 2016-12-12
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