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Nocean

Auriel

Offline rich-text notes with fonts, media and no cloud

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Opens the official F-Droid page

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About Nocean

All the notes, none of the cloud.

Nocean is a small, fast, fully offline rich-text notes app. Your notes and media stay in the app's private storage. The app doesn't even request the Internet permission.

Features

Rich text: H1, H2 and H3 headings, bold, italic, and a font per text range

Fonts, offline: Inter, Lora, Playfair Display, DM Serif Display, Nunito, Oswald, Caveat and Geist Mono ship inside the app. No network or Play Services needed

Inline media: insert images, videos and audio. Tap one to open a full-screen viewer with pinch-zoom, or a player

Zip backup: export every note and its media to one .zip and restore it on any device. On import, a note replaces an existing one only if it's newer

Pinned notes: long-press a card to pin it to the top of the list. Pinning doesn't change the note's edited date

Three ways to search: plain substring, fuzzy subsequence matching, or a case-insensitive regular expression. Tap the badge in the search field to cycle; the choice is remembered

Share: send a note's text to any app, or share text into Nocean to save it as a new note

Note info: word, character and paragraph counts, media totals, and created/edited dates

Four themes: Ocean, Pepper, Cherry and Tokyo Night, with a frosted-glass look (real blur on Android 12+)

Light and dark: an Auto / Light / Dark toggle. Ocean and Pepper follow it; Cherry is light-only and Tokyo Night is dark-only

What's new in 0.2.0

- New Tokyo Night theme, alongside Ocean, Pepper and Cherry - Auto / Light / Dark toggle in the menu. Ocean and Pepper follow it; Cherry is light-only and Tokyo Night dark-only, so the toggle greys out and the gold "i" says why - Pin notes to the top: long-press a card to pin, unpin or delete - Search by plain substring, fuzzy matching or a regular expression. Tap the badge in the search field to cycle; the choice is remembered

How to install Nocean

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open Nocean from your app drawer.

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