Google Keep
Launched 2013
67 features found available
In their words
Save your thoughts, wherever you are. Capture notes, share them with others, and access them from your computer, phone or tablet. Free with a Google account. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Google Keep:
Free
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
The company offers a version of the product that can be used indefinitely at no cost, without a note limit
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Can enable two-factor authentication from within the app (not only via third parties) to protect account access
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
Documented claim that all note data and their attachments are encrypted on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Drawn content from within the app can be translated into text
What functionality specific to images is possible?
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
Words in the image are added to full text search, so the note will show up in search results that contain a word from within the image
Text or handwriting from within an image can be inserted into the note body
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
Hierarchy is exported in a way that other apps can import
When an export is initiated, the downloadable package includes image files for each image uploaded to the user's notebook
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
File can be drag-and-dropped into app to create a note, or a file can be dragged into an import directory to become a note
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
When entering text into the search field, matching hierarchical tags/directories are offered to help the user filter note content
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
Search results can filter available collaborators of any shared note
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
A note can be in multiple navigation hierarchies concurrently (i.e., because it has multiple tags)
A note can be pinned to the top of the note list for easy access, and will stay there until unpinned
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently with a real-time editing system that prevents merge errors if the same paragraph is concurrently edited
Enable a specific user or multiple users to view and/or edit one's otherwise private note content
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
Child tasks can be defined such that completing or hiding the parent task applies that same operation to all child tasks
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
The URL of the web page from whence the capture occurred can be included among the content inserted into note
An official Chrome web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
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