A notes app without an account keeps your notes on the phone, so there is no email, password or profile to hand over. Keeppad works that way: you install it and speak your first note.
Where the notes live
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On your phone Keeppad stores notes in a database inside the app, and each recording as a file next to it.
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In your browser the web version at keeppad.com keeps notes in that browser on that computer.
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In Firebase, only when shared a note you share by link is also stored in Google Firebase, so the other person can open it. Notes you don't share stay on the phone.
The privacy policy has the full list: what the speech service gets, what the ad network gets, and how to have a shared note removed.
What you gain
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Zero setup no form, no email check, no password to forget.
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Less to leak a service without accounts holds no list of emails and passwords.
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Fast first note after the welcome screen, the record button is right there.
What you give up
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No sync between your devices a note on the phone doesn't appear on your laptop by itself.
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No cloud backup a lost or reset phone takes its notes with it.
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Sharing is by link anyone with the link can open that note.
Fill the gaps without an account
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Send notes on in Keeppad's settings, connect Obsidian, Notion, Todoist, Google Docs or OneNote. Each new note then goes there too, into your own account in that app.
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Share with yourself open a shared link on another device to read and edit the note there.
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Back up the phone Android's Auto Backup saves app data to the phone owner's Google Drive, where the phone has it turned on.
Who it suits
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Quick capture shopping, tasks and ideas you act on within days.
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Privacy first people who want notes on their own device.
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Shared households one link per list, with no accounts for the family to make.