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The original was posted on /r/androiddev by /u/sharipova on 2024-03-28 19:47:40.

My name is Zhanna and I’m a co-founder of Anytype - local first knowledge management and communication app. Today, we released a native Android app that allows to jot down and interconnect notes, write beautiful docs and wikis, manage tasks or create collections about your interests: books, movies, games, important events or things to-do. It can sync with your Desktop (Mac/Windows/Linux) or iOS, if you also have an iPhone ;) 

All our code base is open on GitHub and we are looking for developers who are excited to build a local first alternative to a software based on cloud. All networking and logic protocols and libraries are open source under MIT license, while clients use a source available licence. We use an open data standard and you can self-host your own backup node.

I’ll a few super cool differentiators that come from local first architecture:

• No spinners: your work at your fingertips. Anytype keeps the primary copy of each space on the local device. Data synchronization with other devices happens quietly in the background - allowing you to operate with your data at your fingertips.
• The work is not trapped to one device while the network is optional. Everything works offline. Data synchronization need not necessarily go via the Internet: anytype allows users to sync data via local WiFi networks. Still, there is a role for the network - it works as additional backup, helps with peer discovery and solves the closed-laptop problem (you made changes on laptop, when your phone was offline, the changes can either sync when both devices are online or via backup node).
• You retain ultimate ownership and control. Users control encryption keys; there is no central registry of users (we don’t ask even your email). We added an option to self-host your backup to support full autonomy of users from the network. Anytype or anyone else cannot block you out of your account or read what’s inside.

We’ve been working on it for 4 years now - it’s feature reach and it’s an open ecosystem. I am excited to hear your feedback and hope that some of you will be interested to become contributors.

Demo:

Download link: https://download.anytype.io

On Google Play (Flagship devices): 

Why we are building anytype: 

Github repos: 

Today, Anytype’s beta is in single-player mode. Multiplayer mode, which will support local-first collaboration between multiple users, will be launched in April 2024.