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NoteFlare

Install on your phone, use it offline

NoteFlare installs from the browser like an app. There is no App Store build. Open your NoteFlare link and sign in once, then:

In Chrome: Account menu → Install app, or Chrome’s menu → Install app.

NoteFlare on a phone

Editing offline on a phone: the header shows one unsynced change

What works offline

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Opening the app, unlocking with your passphrase, reading, searching, writing, editing, pinning, archiving, deleting and importing.

The header shows Offline · N unsynced until everything has reached your Worker.

Two things need a connection: setting up a new account, and recovering with a recovery code.

Once installed

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  • Share to NoteFlare from other apps (Android). Shared text and links become a new note, saved as soon as you unlock.
  • Open .md files with NoteFlare (desktop Chrome and Edge). They are encrypted and imported like a dropped folder.
  • New note from the app icon’s shortcut menu.
  • Launching it again focuses the window you already have open, so you don’t unlock twice.
  • When a new version is deployed, NoteFlare offers to reload instead of switching underneath you.

How it works

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A service worker caches the app itself. Your notes are cached in IndexedDB as the same ciphertext the server stores, plus the wrapped keys, so the device copy is just as unreadable without your passphrase. Edits go into a queue on the device and are pushed in order when a connection is available.

Signing out deletes the device copy.