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Apple Notes on Android

Notelet is a notes and reminders app for Android and iPhone alike, so the same notes can be on both. Apple makes Notes only for its own devices. This guide covers what works on an Android phone, how to bring your notes across, and how to keep them in step with an iPhone.

Last checked , from each app’s own help pages, for Notelet 0.10.21.

Is there an Apple Notes app for Android?

No. Apple makes Notes only for its own devices. Elsewhere, Apple’s way to your notes is iCloud.com in a web browser, and its own list of what iCloud.com does in each device’s browser names computers, tablets and iPhones, but not Android phones.

So on Android you reach your notes through a browser, start again in another app, or move them into an app that runs on both kinds of phone.

What people do instead

  • Open iCloud.com in the phone’s browser. Your notes stay where they are, but it’s a web page in a browser tab, not an app.
  • Start again in Google Keep or OneNote. Both have Android apps and are free, and both work differently: Keep sorts notes with labels and colours rather than folders, and OneNote is a notebook of sections and pages you write anywhere on. See Notelet vs Google Keep and Notelet vs OneNote.
  • Move them into an app on both phones. Notelet has folders, smart folders, #tags, pins, checklists, tables and locked notes, with your reminders in the same app, on Android, iPhone and your computers. Coming from Notes, you’ll find your way around at once.

Moving your notes into Notelet

Notelet doesn’t sync with iCloud: you bring your notes across once. Apple Notes writes your notes out as Markdown files on a Mac; without a Mac, Apple’s copy of your data has them too.

With a Mac

  1. In Notes on the Mac, select the notes to move: click one, then Edit › Select All for a whole folder.
  2. Choose File › Export To › Markdown and save them in a new folder. Notes writes each note as a folder of its own, with its pictures and files beside it. To keep your Notes folders, export each one into a folder with its name.
  3. Install Notelet on the Mac, choose File › Import and Export › Import from Files… and pick the folder you saved them in. Notelet shows what’s there, folder by folder, and nothing changes until you choose Import.
  4. Turn on sync on the Mac and on the phone (below), and the notes are on Android a moment later.

Or import on the phone instead: zip the folder, put the .zip on the phone, and in Notelet for Android choose Settings › Import and Export › Import from Files… and pick it.

Without a Mac

  1. On any computer, sign in at privacy.apple.com and choose Request a copy of your data.
  2. Choose iCloud Notes, then Continue. Apple tells you when the copy is ready, and you have 14 days to download it.
  3. In Notelet, choose Import from Files… (File › Import and Export on a computer, Settings › Import and Export on the phone) and pick the download, as a .zip or unzipped.

Notelet reads the Notes in Apple’s download as folders of text files with their attachments. This route is less tested than the Mac’s: Apple doesn’t publish how the download is laid out.

What comes across

  • Each note’s title and words
  • Checklists, ticked or not
  • Monostyled text, as code blocks
  • Pictures and other attachments, where they were in the note
  • Your folders, when you export each one into a folder of its own

What doesn’t

  • The dates notes were written and changed: Notes’ Markdown export leaves them out, so each note takes its file’s date
  • Locks: remove them in Notes before you export (below)
  • Sharing: a shared note comes across as your own copy, and Notelet can’t share notes yet
  • Anything you change in Apple Notes afterwards: it’s a move, not a sync

Locked notes

Notelet can’t open a note that’s locked in Apple Notes, and Apple’s guide to exporting doesn’t say what happens to one. So before you export, open each locked note in Notes and choose File › Remove Lock.

Once it’s in Notelet, lock it again there. All your locked notes share one password, and on Android they open with your fingerprint; on an iPhone, with Face ID or Touch ID. A locked note can hold pictures and files too, sealed with the same password.

Pictures and attachments

Each note’s pictures and files come with it, where they were in the note, and photos taken on an iPhone show on Android too. They sync with your notes: through storage of your own, or through Notelet Cloud, where every account has 1 GB free with files up to 25 MB, and Plus has 50 GB with files up to 512 MB.

Keeping them in step with an iPhone

Notelet doesn’t sync with Apple Notes, so to have the same notes on an iPhone and an Android phone, use Notelet on both. Notelet for iPhone is in public beta on TestFlight; Notelet for Android, for Android 7.0 or later, is in a Google Play test or an APK.

  1. Install Notelet on both phones: iPhone, Android.
  2. On each, turn on sync in Settings › Sync, with the same Notelet Cloud account, or the same S3 or WebDAV storage of your own.
  3. Change a note on one phone and the other has it a moment later. Edits made on both at once are merged, not lost.

Your reminders can come too. In Notelet on the iPhone, choose Settings › Import and Export › Import from Apple Reminders…: your lists come in with their dates, priorities and repeats, and sync to Android like your notes.

Common questions

Is there an Apple Notes app for Android?

No. Apple makes Notes only for its own devices, and elsewhere offers iCloud.com in a web browser. Notelet is an independent notes and reminders app for Android and iPhone alike, so your notes can be on both.

How do I get my iPhone notes onto an Android phone?

Export them from Notes on a Mac as Markdown, or request a copy of your data from Apple, then import them into Notelet and turn on sync. It’s a one-time move: Notelet doesn’t sync with iCloud.

Do I need a Mac?

No, though the Mac is the better-tested route. Without one, request a copy of your data at privacy.apple.com and import the Notes in it.

Do locked notes come across?

Remove their lock in Notes first (File › Remove Lock), export them, and lock them again in Notelet, where they open with your fingerprint.

Is Notelet free on Android?

Yes. Everything Notelet does today is free, on every system, and it stays free. Syncing through storage you already have (your own S3 or WebDAV server, or a folder Dropbox, iCloud Drive or OneDrive keeps in step on a computer) is free for good. Every Notelet Cloud account has 1 GB free, and Notelet Plus has 50 GB, for £3.49 a month or £29.99 a year.

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