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SIMPLE NOTE.

A note app that feels like real paper: notes, checklists, reminders and a calendar on a desk, with handwriting, pencil ticks and the sounds of paper. One Flutter codebase for iOS, Android and the web, synced through Firebase.

A white ruled sheet with a handwritten weekly plan, a yellow grocery checklist, a pink reminder slip, a locked green note and a navy pencil on a beige desk
Year
2026
Platforms
iOS, Android and web
Stack
Flutter, Firebase, Cloud Functions
Our role
Design, development, release
Status
Store release in preparation

THE PROBLEM

A NOTEBOOK,
NOT A WORKSPACE.

People who kept a paper notebook for years want the same thing on a phone: write it down in seconds, tick it off, be reminded at the right minute and never lose a page, with or without a connection. Most note apps give them either a blank white box or a workspace with more structure than a shopping list needs.

THE BUILD

PAPER FIRST,
OFFLINE FIRST.

Every screen keeps the paper metaphor: ruled, squared, plain and legal-pad paper, five paper colours, blue, black and red ink, a pushpin for pinned notes, a highlighter and a red pen for circling, with 24 short desk sounds and haptics matched to each action. Writes go to Firestore's local cache first and sync field by field, so two devices, or two people, editing the same list never overwrite each other. Reminders are scheduled on the device, within iOS's pending-notification limit and Android's exact-alarm rules, and a Cloud Function pushes any reminder a phone has not already shown. Accounts are optional: anonymous notes merge into a Google, Apple or e-mail account later.

WHAT SHIPPED

ONE DESK,
THREE PLATFORMS.

Simple Note 1.0 is built and being prepared for the App Store, Google Play and the web: notes and checklists, folders, pinned and archived notes, a 30-day trash, search, a month, week and day calendar with a journal page for each day, one-off and recurring reminders, PIN or biometric lock, notes shared by invite link, version history, home-screen widgets, share-sheet capture and JSON or Markdown export. The free plan holds 50 notes; Simple Note Pro, ready for RevenueCat, lifts the cap and unlocks the lock, recurring reminders and version history.

05
  • The Simple Note desk: a My Notes list with a search strip, colour filters, a pinned weekly plan and a grocery checklist on paper cards
  • A blue ruled note titled Book ideas with blue-ink handwriting, one word highlighted and a phrase circled in red pen
  • A yellow legal-pad checklist titled Groceries: two of five items ticked in pencil and struck through, with a progress bar
  • The reminder sheet over a note: repeat options and quick times such as tomorrow morning 09:00 and Monday 09:00
  • A locked note shown as a sealed green envelope with a red wax seal, above a handwritten PIN keypad
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