What's New in v1.7.3
Version 1.7.3
* Updated the target SDK to Android 17 (Cinnamon Bun).
* Added support for switching the UI theme to dark/night mode.
About NotePad
A simple and intuitive notepad based on the app bundled with Palm Pilot.
- Entirely offline, requiring few permissions to run.
- Permission to use external storage is only needed to back up or restore your notes on Marshmallow (Android 6) and older.
- The following permissions are added by WorkManager, a Google
library used to run the export, import, and password re-encryption
operations in the background when initiated by the user. The core
app does not use these on its own.
- Permission to run a foreground service, added on Pie (Android 9) and later.
- Permission to view network connections, used by WorkManager to determine the best time to schedule background tasks.
- Permission to prevent the phone from sleeping, used by WorkManager to keep the processor awake while a background task is running.
- Permission to run at startup, used by WorkManager to reschedule any pending background task after the phone is rebooted.
- Create any number of categories for different notes.
- Mark notes as private and optionally encrypt them with a password.
- Export notes to a local XML file.
- Import notes from an XML file.
- Backwards compatible with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and up.
Version History
| Version | Released | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 1.7.3 | Jul 19, 2026 | 1.5 MB |
| 1.7.2 | Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 MB |
| 1.7.1 | May 12, 2026 | 1.6 MB |
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