MyMemos

Android · Memos · Offline first

Your memos, even with the radio off.

MyMemos keeps a self-hosted Memos library on your phone: every note, the pictures and files it carries, the comment thread under it. Search, tags, checkboxes and writing all happen on the device — the server is where memos are backed up and shared, not where they live.

2.2 MB Android 8.0+ Free & open source No Google services

The feed: a pinned list of books with two tasks ticked, then today's memos as white cards with tags, reactions and a thumbnail.
One memo opened: a rendered table, tappable tasks, its tags, reaction chips and the comment thread underneath.

01

Plane mode is the normal case

After the first sync every memo is in local SQLite. The feed, the search, the tags and the day groups never wait on a request.

02

Nothing you write is lost

A new memo, an edit, a comment, a picture or a ticked checkbox is saved on the phone at once and replayed when there is a network.

03

No Google services

No Play Services, no Firebase, no Google account. Background sync falls back to the platform scheduler on de-Googled ROMs.

What it does

Built around the phone in your hand, not the server in a rack.

01writing

Write first, sync later

A memo written in airplane mode looks like any other memo, marked with a small queued dot. When there is signal the queue drains in order: files, then the note itself.

saves offlinedrains later

02capture

Share into it from anywhere

Share a link, a paragraph, a photo or any file and pick MyMemos: the composer opens with the payload already in it. Long-press the launcher icon for a new memo or your four most-written tags.

share sheettag shortcuts

03mirror

Everything offline, by default

Each sync copies every attachment and every comment thread the server has, not just the text. A memo reads the same in a plane as it does on the sofa.

filesthreads

04finding

Search, tags and dates

Always-visible search over content and tags, a date filter with presets and a range, and every tag with its count — tags and dates combine as AND.

local searchtag chips

05tasks

Checkboxes you can tap

Task lists render as real checkboxes. Tapping one rewrites the line and syncs, so a list stays a list in the web UI too — and a completed row can step aside.

tap to tickcompleted at the bottom

06sharing out

Share the link or the text

Share link mints or reuses a Memos share token and sends the address; share text sends the markdown and works offline. Every share also lands in the Android share sheet.

share linksworks offline

More than six, actually All features

The look

Cards on warm paper, not a table of lines.

A memo is a thing you can hold: a white card with soft corners on a warm paper background, an indigo accent used only for state — links, the selected chip, a ticked box, the queued dot.

The body is the platform sans because it is your text; the serif is reserved for display sizes and day headers. Nothing is uppercase, nothing is monospace, and there is no motion beyond the panel slide and the composer sheet.

See every screen
The same feed at night: near-black background, dark cards, paper-coloured text and a soft periwinkle accent.

Get it

One APK, one address, no account beyond your own instance.

Android 8.0 or newer and a reachable Memos 26.x instance — that is the whole requirement list. Free software, no sign-up, no subscription.

99% vibecoded, still works.