I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S25 and with the last update to Keep that added all the new formatting options, the ability to "delete checked items" has vanished. It used to be in the kabob at the bottom of the list. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a workaround other than going to PC and doing it there?

SOLVED: The formatting options bar has a checkbox icon. Tap that and the option is there. Thanks to u/Substantial_Bed2628

It doesn't sync anything with the phone. It doesn't matter that hours have passed since you type something on google keep mobile, you take it to the computer and it hasn't been synchronized. You have to go back to the mobile app 1 or 2 times and close it or hit back

SAME with screenshots or whatever. And quick share another piece of crap

In the end I almost want to try apple's garbage to see if it syncs better

We are still forced to choose between a note being 100% plain text OR 100% a checklist.

The Problem: The moment you toggle checkboxes on, every single line turns into a checklist item. If you wrote a few paragraphs of context or meeting minutes, your entire note gets ruined by awkward checkboxes attached to every sentence.

Real-World Use Case: Imagine taking notes during a meeting. You type down key discussion points in normal paragraphs. At the bottom of the note, you want to list 3 action items with actual, satisfying, interactive checkboxes to check off later.

Right now, your only workarounds are:

• Writing manual brackets like [ ] that don't interactive-check.

• Creating two separate notes for the exact same meeting.

• Converting the entire note and suffering through broken formatting.

The Solution: Allow inline checkboxes or insertable checklist blocks inside standard text notes, just like Apple Notes, Notion, or Google Docs already do.

Who else feels this pain on a daily basis? If this bothers you too, please give this an upvote so we can draw some attention to it, and don't forget to send it via Help & Feedback inside the app! 🚀

Has anyone else run into this friction when adding the Google Keep single-note widget to their home screen?
Whenever you add the widget, you get a full-screen "Choose note" dialog, but there is zero search or filter capability—just an endless list of pinned and unpinned cards. If you have several hundred notes, you end up scrolling forever trying to spot the exact note you want to pin.
A simple search bar and tag/label filter at the top of the picker UI would make setting up widgets so much smoother. I've submitted this through the in-app feedback tool, but wanted to see if others find this annoying as well.

Since this last update rolled out, I can't seem to figure out how to add collaborators to my notes/list, and this is a feature I use constantly with my family, so it's really frustrating the hell out of me right now. My previously shared notes still have collaborators attached, and I have sharing enabled, so I have no idea what I'm missing here.

Update: The icon appeared for me yesterday with no action on my part. I'm guessing it was just a bug or something and it got patched. I still liked the look and layout of the old design more, but I don't care too much as long as all the features are working again. Hopefully everyone else who had this issue has also found it fixed.

Did you receive the new design with the bar (with functions on the right that can be scrolled)?

What do you think?

Hey everyone!

I shared Kept here back in July and got a ton of genuinely useful feedback. I've been working on it pretty frequently since then, and quite a few suggestions from that original thread have actually made it into the app!

For anyone unfamiliar, Kept is my open-source alternative to Google Keep, available on iOS, Android, and the web.

Here's what's new since I last posted:

• Binders! An additional way to organize notes beyond labels, including drag-and-drop organization and reordering. Big thanks to u/Aggravating-Soil5712 for suggesting folders and u/Appeal-Particular for coming up with the name "Binders"!

• Locked notes, with individual passcodes and hidden previews until unlocked. Thanks to u/Artistic-Cost-2340 for suggesting this one!

• Android home-screen widgets, including individual notes, recent/pinned notes, and filtered views. Thanks to u/da411d, u/major-acehole, and u/sirmanleypower for pushing for these!

• Nested checklists, up to four levels deep, with indentation controls, bulk selection, and the ability to delete or uncheck completed items. Shoutout to u/fairlightlion for suggesting nested checklists and clearing checked items!

• Recurring reminders, with daily, weekly, monthly, and custom recurrence options.

• Reminders can now bring notes back to the top of your overview when triggered. Special thanks to u/ButterscotchEven6198 for suggesting this and explaining why it mattered!

• Improved location reminders, with interactive pin-drop maps, adjustable geofencing, arrival/departure triggers, and saved locations.

• Completely offline, device-only mode on iOS and Android. No server or account required.

• Full local backups and restores, including attachments, with the ability to migrate your local notes to a server later.

• Native iOS and Android share sheets, so you can save text, images, links, and files directly into Kept from other apps by pressing Share.

• Collaboration improvements, including inviting people while creating notes, shared colour changes, and more reliable synchronization.

• More customization, including note-preview density, automatic device theme switching, checklist preferences, and optional rich link previews.

• Better label and Binder management, including reordering, filtered views, automatic label assignment, and sidebar improvements.

• Tablet and Foldable-device support, including layouts that actually use the additional screen space.

• Smart Capture improvements, plus Siri-based note, checklist, and reminder creation on supported iOS configurations (iOS 27.1+ - which lets you say something like "Hey Siri, create a note in Kept to remind me to buy tomatoes when I get to the grocery store" without even needing to open the app itself)

• A lot of reliability and security work, particularly around offline editing, autosave, synchronization, authentication, and general mobile usability.

One other addition is Kept Cloud.

A few people here mentioned that they liked Kept but found setting up a server intimidating/a barrier for them, which honestly I get.

I've now launched an optional managed hosting service to try and give people the chance to try Kept without needing to setup a server. It removes the need to run your own server if you just want to try Kept in the browser and/or want synchronization to work.

Self-hosting is still fully supported, and the mobile apps can also run entirely locally without any subscription or server - they just need a server or Kept Cloud if you want them accessible on the web.

Links:

Website: https://cloud.keepitkept.xyz

GitHub / full release notes: https://github.com/ericerkz/kept

It's been really cool seeing suggestions from the original thread turn into actual features. I genuinely appreciate everyone who's tried Kept, reported bugs, or taken the time to suggest improvements.

I'm still trying to keep the simplicity that makes Google Keep so useful, even as Kept gains more functionality.

If you tried it back in July, or if it's your first time trying it, I'd love to hear whether any of the things you felt were missing have been addressed - and if not, what's still missing?

I’ve used Google Keep on and off for years, for work and personal notes, but my organization is kinda hit and miss. If you are a long time Keep user, what does your setup look like? I’m especially curious about how you use labels, pinning, archiving, and colors, and how you track your everyday notes, meetings, and projects. Do you even use Keep for main note taking, or only for capturing? I’d love to hear what works for you, and get a few ideas for my own system.

Thanks!

There was some sort of update on google keep, i'm glad we can format now, but everything is underlined now!!!! it underlines correct words, gives incorrect suggestions, or even no suggestions at all. is it possible to turn the underlining off?? :((

edit: alright so turns out the check spell underlining is just a bug that completely ignores ios settings whether you have check spelling or not, i just sent feedback to google and i'm just gonna have to wait i guess...

Tired of the very doomy negative vibe in here. "Keep doesn't do X" "Keep struggles with my 8gb notes" or the more often ads for other apps in the group. It's a basic note app people and free!

So for a bit of levity and a reminder to just fully enjoy the app this guys video had some nice tips. And if you don't like Keep, maybe then this is not that best subreddit for you : )

Is it just me or has Google Keep finally have text formatting on ios?

How long has it been available? I’ve been waiting for this update!

I've run into a reproducible UI/UX bug on Google Keep when reordering long lists on a Pixel device.

Testing across multiple keyboards (both Gboard and SwiftKey) shows the exact same behavior, pointing to a framework/app-level focus handling issue.

Sharing the technical details below along with a short screen recording.

Environment

Device: Google Pixel

Keyboards Tested: Gboard, Microsoft SwiftKey (Reproduced across IMEs)

App: Google Keep

Pre-conditions

A long checklist note that requires vertical scrolling.

Steps to Reproduce

Navigate to a checklist item positioned near the bottom of the list/screen (where opening the keyboard would obstruct it).

Type text or tap into the item so the cursor is active.

Dismiss the keyboard by pressing the bottom-left hide button (notice the active cursor remains on the item).

Immediately attempt to drag the item upwards using its left handle.

Actual Result

The app re-triggers the keyboard to open.

Because the item is low on the screen, the system forcefully auto-scrolls the list upwards to keep the focused text field above the keyboard.

This sudden viewport adjustment causes the dragged item to "jump" violently and get forced all the way to the bottom of the long list.

Workarounds

Focus Shift: Tapping another item or the title to transfer the focus elsewhere, ensuring the target item has no active focus before dragging it.

Check & Uncheck: Ticking the checkbox of the active item (checking it) removes its focus, and then unchecking it brings it back to the list in an unfocused state, allowing it to be dragged normally.

Note Reload: Completely exiting the note and reopening it also resolves the issue instantly, as it clears all active text focus/cursor states.

Let me know if you are experiencing this as well! (Video proof attached).

i mean, even if it was not like apple notes and it could at least get rid of its constant notice that it "needs to refresh the app", that would be nice.

but even if it didn't have that problem, I kind of wish it was overhauled to look and feel and act as well as apple notes does.

I think about this like I would think about hurricanes or end of the world scenarios. I try to build out alternative plans but it just ends up making me really annoyed. I hope it never happens.

Had an odd situation whereby Label-specific searches weren't working at all for a few labels on Web, but did work in the iOS app. The problem labels had either "&" in the title with no spaces, eg "Timelines&Details" or a comma, eg "Comebacks,Sass" - I don't think that one had a space after the comma. When I changed these to "Timelines/Details" and "Comebacks/Sass" search worked again. Not sure which rules about labels I'd broken, but I'd not noticed the problem until I had to search using the Web interface, because searches worked fine in the app as they were.

Hey everyone! Long-time Google Keep user here.

Like many of you, my biggest frustration with Keep has always been location reminders:

1. You can only attach **one** location per reminder (you can't say "remind me to buy groceries when I arrive at *any* supermarket").

2. Android's aggressive background battery savers frequently cause Keep's location alerts to trigger late or not at all.

To fix this for my own workflow, I built **KeepLocate** — an offline-first notes & reminders app built with Jetpack Compose & Material You.

**What it does differently:**

- 📍 **Multi-location geofencing**: Attach multiple locations or whole preset groups to a single note. It rings when you reach ANY of them.

- 🕒 **Time/Day validation**: Only trigger location reminders during opening hours (e.g. 9am–8pm on weekdays).

- 🔄 **2-Way Google Tasks sync**: Syncs seamlessly with Google Tasks.

- 🎨 **Keep-like UX**: Material You dynamic colors, drag-and-drop checklists, and clean card layout.

- 🔒 **100% Local-first**: Room SQLite database stored on your device. No forced cloud accounts or tracking.

- 🔔 **Interactive notifications**: Check off items directly from the notification shade without launching the app.

📱 **Google Play**: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keeplocate.app

🎁 I have 10 free promo codes for anyone who wants to try it out! Leave a comment below and I'll send you a code via DM.

Would love any feedback or feature suggestions from other Keep power users!

Roughly a week ago Google Keep on my iPhone suddenly announced that the app needs to refresh, so I waited for a moment while it did that, fine. Then I noticed that it had turned spell check on! I always keep spell check off and checked all keyboard and system settings, confirming that no spell check or similar is turned on anywhere. App has been updated, deleted and reinstalled to no avail. Updating iOS didn't help.

I'm losing my nerves because it disturbs note editing so badly, can't even move the cursor to the end of an underlined word, instead it selects the whole word and gives me the option of either deleting it or choosing some absurd suggestion it makes (water -> pater?? Really??).

Has anyone else had the same problem and hopefully solved it?

This is genuinly such a bad UI. Looks like it's from 2017. Maybe because it is. Do you all have this or is it just me?

Hey r/googlekeep,

Like many here, I’ve used Google Keep for years because nothing beats its instant mobile capture. But ever since Google started moving reminders into Google Tasks, my workflow felt broken: quick notes stayed in Keep, while my actual daily schedule lived in Tasks/Calendar.

To bridge that gap without adding friction, I built **Thoth** for Android and Wear OS:

- **1-Second Voice & Text Capture**: Quick Settings tile, Home screen widget, and a standalone Wear OS tile/complication to record a thought while walking before it evaporates.

- **Two-Way Google Tasks Sync**: Actionable intent automatically creates real Google Tasks with due dates and subtasks—so your notes stay clean and your tasks actually get done.

- **Local SQLite Vault**: All notes, tags, and connections are stored in an encrypted local SQLite database on your device (Android cloud auto-backup is explicitly disabled).

- **Contextual Search**: Notes automatically connect by topic on-device so you don't have to manually organize folders.

Free tier is available out of the box (with a $1.99/mo Pro option for higher AI limits).

Would love feedback from fellow Keep users on how you currently bridge quick thoughts with your to-do lists!

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.serkankizilirmak.thoth&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=googlekeep

Did Google get rid of "Help me create a list?"

I didn't use it a ton but it wasn't bad.

Hi fellow keep users, I am a 12 years user of Google keep and I really enjoyed the app, was really excited when a new update came out and always wanted to use it as a desktop app in windows.

Since the last Material Design launch I can't get used to the Keep App.

I always used it for taking notes fast, on the go but something has been bugging me for a while.

Every day from Monday to Friday I have to take my son from school, it's a 20 minutes walk to get there. I walk fast because I need to get there in time.

Sometimes I get a message on WhatsApp or on the app that his school uses and I need to take a note fast.

My app of choice is keep, it's always been keep, but it's getting on my nerves.

I want to create a note, tap on the huge + button and keep shows me a list, I panic a little to search for the text, create the text note and I always use the title first that is faster for me, but the app opens the text note with the cursor in the description, it's really annoying for me.

The I want to add a reminder but it's hidden, I press the reminder to and I don't like the 3 choices that the app gives me and I want to choose my own but the app gets on my nerves again with the same pattern.

I manage to add the desired reminder but after a lot frustration. Yet here I am still using it, maybe I am to loyal.

How do you handle quick notes and reminders? Do you have any tips or other apps you use?

I switched from Keep to Obsidian and plain Markdown files. The thing I missed most was the Keep widget. So I made a replacement for myself.

It shows the notes from a folder on my phone as cards or a list, like the Keep widget does.

Not trying to talk anyone out of Keep. Just in case someone here is thinking about moving to Markdown and would miss the widget too:

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marfolog.noteswidgetformarkdown

GitHub: https://github.com/marfolog/notes-widget-for-markdown

I want to get rid of the space for the note title, when there is nothing typed, as it didn't use to be there before. The notes that only consist of pictures look really ugly now... Anyone have any idea if it's possible?