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Self-hosted alternatives to Google Keep

Google Keep is a note-taking app from Google for notes, lists, photos, drawings and audio that syncs across devices. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.

Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Google Keep describes on its own site.

  • FlareMo timeline on desktop and phone with the note composer, a note with a highlighted quote, its tags, and counters for memos, tags and days

    Memos-style quick notes and a shared team knowledge base, with semantic search and long-term memory for AI agents

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Google Keep features, app by app

FeatureFlareMo
Notes and lists with photos and audioYes
Drawings in notesNo
Real-time sync across phone, computer and smartwatchPartly
Search with color codes, labels, pins and filtersPartly
Reminders on notesPartly
Offline editing that syncs when connectedYes
Sharing and real-time collaboration on notesPartly
Export of notes to Google DocsNo

Memos-style quick notes and a shared team knowledge base, with semantic search and long-term memory for AI agents

What a Google Keep user would miss
It has no drawings, no color coding, no reminders on notes, no shared editing and no native apps.
What it adds
Notes live in your own D1 and R2, with optional team mode and an Agent Memory hub for AI agents.
  • Yes Notes and lists with photos and audio. Card-style timeline with Markdown task lists, image and audio attachments and a capture page with live voice transcription.
  • No Drawings in notes. No drawing tool found.
  • Partly Real-time sync across phone, computer and smartwatch. Installable PWA for phone and computer; no watch app.
  • Partly Search with color codes, labels, pins and filters. Tags, a pinned filter, archive, and full-text search with operators such as has:attachment and before:; no color coding.
  • Partly Reminders on notes. Overdue tasks raise in-app notifications and optional browser Web Push; no reminders on a note itself.
  • Yes Offline editing that syncs when connected. The PWA keeps an offline write queue and replays drafts and uploads when the connection returns.
  • Partly Sharing and real-time collaboration on notes. Optional team mode with roles and team-visible notes, and time-limited public read-only links; no shared editing found.
  • No Export of notes to Google Docs. No Google Docs export.

Sources:github.com/realchendahuang/flaremo#readmeworkspace.google.com/intl/en/products/keep/