Memories & moments
Trips, birthdays, the small everyday things. Add a few photos, a mood, who was there and where it happened.
Offline · Free · No account
Keep your notes and photos
Keep your notes and photos
on your phone, nowhere else.
Checkpoint is a notes app with photos that saves everything locally. People use it for journaling, medical reports, bills and receipts, or anything they'd rather not hand to a cloud service. There's no account and nothing syncs.
- No account
- No ads
- No analytics
- No internet needed
Works offline
The app never goes online. Your entries stay on the device because there's nowhere else for them to be sent.
Free, no catch
Every feature is free. There's no subscription, no paywall, and no upgrade screen waiting later on.
Nothing is collected
No analytics, no telemetry, no Firebase, no ad SDKs. You don't even create an account to use it.
Backups you control
Make an encrypted backup whenever you want one, and put it wherever you already keep your files.
Beyond journaling
What people actually keep in it
It's notes with photos at the core, which turns out to be useful for a lot more than a diary.
Medical records
Photograph reports, prescriptions and scans. Tag each one to a person so the family's history is easy to find later.
Bills & receipts
Keep warranties, invoices and receipts as photos, so you can actually find them when something breaks.
Important documents
IDs, contracts, insurance papers. A private photo copy that never leaves the phone.
Travel & places
Add a location to an entry and look back through your trips later, by date or by place.
Anything else
Recipes, plant care, half-formed ideas, the kids' drawings. It's just an entry with a title, text and photos.
What's inside
The parts you'll actually use
A real editor, with photos
Write in Markdown with bold, lists and quotes. Add photos from the camera or gallery, reorder them, and choose a cover. Every entry can carry a mood, tags, people and a location.
- Markdown formatting toolbar
- Camera and gallery photos, stored so duplicates don't waste space
- Moods, tags, people and location
Search and filters
Full-text search finds words as you type. Filter by year, month, mood, tag, person, favourites, or whether an entry has photos. The calendar marks the days you wrote something.
- Fast full-text search across every entry
- Combined filters, plus your recent searches
- Month calendar with entry and favourite markers
Highlights
On This Day brings back entries from past years, next to recent ones, your favourites, and last month's most-photographed moments. Reminders are optional and come from the phone, never a server.
- On This Day and monthly recaps
- Optional local notifications
- Favourites and most-photographed collections
How privacy works here
Your data doesn't go anywhere
Checkpoint makes no network calls. There's no analytics SDK, no telemetry, no Firebase, no ads and no account. Your notes, photos and reports are written to private storage that other apps on the phone can't read.
When you choose to back up, the file is encrypted on the device with Argon2id and AES-256-GCM before it's written, and you pick where it goes. You can also lock the app with a PIN or biometrics and block screenshots.
The one optional exception is Google Play's billing, used only for voluntary donations. Donations don't unlock anything, since every feature is already free.
Price
It's free
No tiers to compare. If the app earns its place, you can leave a tip, but nothing depends on it.
Always free
$0/forever
- Unlimited entries and photos
- Search, filters, calendar and highlights
- Encrypted backup and restore
- App lock, biometrics and screenshot blocking
- PDF and JSON export
- Every feature, including the ones still to come
Optional in-app tips help cover development. Entirely up to you.
Questions
Frequently asked
Is it really completely offline?
Yes. Checkpoint makes no network calls to store, read or sync your data. Everything is saved in the app's private storage on the device. The only optional network use is Google Play's billing flow for voluntary donations.
Where is my data stored, and is it safe?
Notes and metadata live in a local database, and images are stored as private files. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. You can optionally make an encrypted backup (Argon2id and AES-256-GCM) to a location you choose, and lock the app with a PIN and biometrics.
Will it stay free?
Yes. Every feature is free for everyone, with no subscriptions or paywalls. If you'd like to support development there's an optional tip, but it doesn't unlock anything because there's nothing to unlock.
Can I move my data to a new phone?
Yes. Make an encrypted backup and restore it on the new device, either fully or by picking specific entries. You can also export to PDF or JSON whenever you like.
Do you collect any analytics?
None. No analytics, no telemetry, no Firebase, no ads, no crash trackers and no account. The app is built so there's nothing to collect in the first place.
What devices are supported?
Android phones running Android 8.0 (Oreo) and newer. The design follows Material 3 and adapts to light, dark, and your system colours.
Get Checkpoint
Private, offline and free. Keep what matters where only you can see it.
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