Veil

Veil

Private, local-first encrypted notes

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Description

Veil is a local-first encrypted notes app for Android.

Keep your notes on your device without an account or cloud sync. Notes are encrypted locally before they are written to the app's private storage.

Features:
- Markdown editor
- Local OpenPGP-based encryption
- Password-protected vault with Argon2 key derivation
- Optional biometric unlock
- Automatic locking
- Password changes and encrypted note import and export
- Offline-first design

Veil is in beta. There is no password recovery or cloud backup. Keep a separate copy of critical data.

Veil is free and open-source software licensed under GPL-3.0-only. Contributions, bug reports, tests, documentation, accessibility improvements, and translations are welcome.

What’s new (1.0.0-beta.9)

Beta 9

- Added password changes, encrypted note import and export, and an About screen.
- Improved biometric security and settings screens.
- Blocked Android printing and keyboard learning for notes.
- Enabled R8 code optimization and resource shrinking for smaller Android builds.

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.0.0-beta.9 current
65786e1faa7c985a…
2026-10-15 26 MB API 24
1.0.0-beta.9
1fad97ed18827c8d…
2026-10-15 24 MB API 24
1.0.0-beta.9
9562cd1adccb8bdf…
2026-10-15 22 MB API 24
1.0.0-beta.8
c6c3017f4a6c1515…
2026-10-08 25 MB API 24
1.0.0-beta.8
584ac45034f4a5eb…
2026-10-08 23 MB API 24
1.0.0-beta.8
5681de83cc969c6f…
2026-10-08 21 MB API 24

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • BiometricsUnlock with fingerprint or face.
  • FingerprintUnlock with a fingerprint.
  • veil.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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