Why #NotesApp exists
#NotesApp is one home for African creators, professionals and businesses and the people they serve, where everyone is welcome as family: publish your work, take bookings, sell, teach, talk and get paid in Naira, all in one place.
On #NotesApp you can:
- Write journals and share them with readers who follow you and the topics they care about
- Take bookings for private 1:1 sessions
- Sell physical goods, digital downloads, PDFs and video courses, in your own store and in Notes Market, with your own discount codes and coupons
- Teach free and paid courses in Notes Academy, on your own, with co-tutors or as an organisation, with quizzes, and give learners certificates anyone can check
- Prepare for JAMB, WAEC and NECO with Naija Exam Prep: free practice questions with explanations, timed mocks and packs that work offline
- Run a community for your church, school, club or business, with announcements, Spaces, private Circles, audio rooms, events with paid tickets, and giving
- Message people and groups, and make free voice and video calls
- Ask Nana, our AI helper, about the platform, and let her suggest topics, summarise and translate chats
- Earn from journal subscriptions and gifts, from referrals, and by promoting other members' products on the affiliate marketplace
- Run it all under your own name, with your own site from Free Basic and your own domain on Business and Enterprise plans
- Play Notes Life, our free life game, with your NotesApp account
Anyone can read, comment, book a session or buy from a shop for free. To publish and earn, you start on the free Basic tier and can move up to Pro, Business or Enterprise as you grow.
Play free · a NotesApp game
Notes Life
Start in a room in Wuse, Abuja with N$ 100,000. Work at Chef Adams, itel Energy or Candellux, learn a tech skill at Digital Witch, pay with a tap of your Paylony CardTap card, survive NEPA's blackouts, own your own Chef Adams or itel outlet, invite your friends and climb the Billionaires List, with your NotesApp account.
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Our vision
Africa’s knowledge, shared, valued and rewarded.
Our mission
#NotesApp gives Africa’s creators, teachers, professionals and businesses one home to share what they know, teach it, sell it and get paid for it, in their own currency and, in time, their own language.
Share
Journals, communities, messages and calls take what people know to the people who need it.
Learn
Notes Academy, Naija Exam Prep and certificates anyone can check turn knowledge into qualifications.
Earn
Bookings, subscriptions, gifts, Notes Market and course sales pay out in Naira, with our commissions set out in the open.
Belong
Everyone is welcome as family: readers become buyers, learners become teachers, customers become creators.
Include
Built for African realities: phone-first, light on data, local payments, and African languages, starting with Kiswahili.
What we value
- Members first. Every feature has to help someone be heard, learn, sell or get paid.
- Knowledge earns. What people know has value, and the people who share it deserve a fair share of what it makes.
- Trust and safety. We protect young members, check credentials, keep data private and keep a copy nobody can reach.
- Built for Africa. Naira first, mobile first and data-light, growing country by country across the continent.
- Open by default. Our prices, commissions, status and changelog are public, and we build in the open.
The pain we started with
Five tools to do one job
We started #NotesApp to fix our own problem. To publish, take a booking, sell and get paid in Naira, an African creator, professional or business stitches together a blog, a booking link, a WhatsApp catalogue, a payment page and a spreadsheet. The best of those tools were built for somewhere else: Substack takes paid subscriptions only through Stripe and Calendly only through Stripe or PayPal, so neither has a Naira checkout. Every handoff between them loses a reader, a booking or a sale.
What we saw
Our clients and their customers are one family
Building for our first clients, we saw what the usual tools miss: the writer and the reader, the shop and its buyer, the tutor and the learner are the same people on different days. A reader books a coach, a buyer opens a store, a learner starts teaching. So instead of a tool for one side, we built a home where everyone is welcome as family, for real social and economic needs: somewhere to be heard, to learn, to buy and sell, to talk, and to get paid.
What we built
One account, the whole loop
Publish a journal, get booked from it and get paid in Naira through Paystack or a NotesApp Credit wallet. Sell physical goods and downloads in Notes Market, and teach courses in Notes Academy with certificates anyone can check. Keep in touch by email, messages and group chats, and free calls that are end-to-end encrypted. Businesses run it on their own domain; Enterprises plug in with our API. Reading, commenting, booking and buying are free; we earn a commission when our members earn, set out in the open below.
Why Nigeria, why now
Online, paying and ready
100M+
internet users in Nigeria
DataReportal, early 2024
36.75M
social media user identities
DataReportal, early 2024
12.4M
Instagram users
DataReportal, early 2024
1.3B+
hours Nigerians spent listening on Spotify
Spotify Wrapped, 2025
17M
Verve cards issued by OPay and Moniepoint
TechCabal, 2024
150K+
Netflix subscribers
World Population Review, 2024
Nigerians are online, they pay for what they love and they carry cards in their pockets. What they don't have is one home, built here and paying out in Naira, where the people they follow can publish, sell, teach and talk to them. That's the gap #NotesApp fills, starting in Nigeria and growing across Africa.
Who's already here
Built with the people who use it
We build alongside the creators, professionals and businesses who run their work on #NotesApp, starting with our first reference customers: Precheks, a journal at notes.precheks.com.ng (its main website, precheks.com.ng, runs on our API and webhooks); ApexGlitz, a fashion shop that sells to Africa through #NotesApp at apexglitz.com.ng; and LWB, founded by @emmanuela, which teaches free courses in Notes Academy.
Where we're going
Help us build it faster
Next on the roadmap: our own live streaming for communities, with bigger meetings; iOS and Android apps, with NotesApp Inc, our US company; payments across Africa (Kenya first, then Ghana); WhatsApp reminders; Send-Na, our email, WhatsApp and SMS service priced in Naira; and the Team hub and finance tools for Business and Enterprise. We've built lean and in the open, and we're now looking for investors, accelerators and partners who want to build Africa's home for creators and the people they serve.
Talk to usWhat you can do today
Messages, calls & group chats
One-to-one messages, and groups of up to 50 people you follow or who follow you, with bold, italic and underline, sent and read ticks with times, pictures, videos and documents, voice notes of up to 5 minutes, and stickers. Pin your important messages and chats, see when someone is typing, and edit or delete what you sent. Free voice and video calls with anyone you follow who follows you back, straight between your two devices, end-to-end encrypted with a safety code to compare, and never recorded, with screen sharing on computers and group calls of up to 6 (4 on video), ringing on the installed app even when it isn't open. Replies to your moments land here too, and notifications on your device are on by default.
Moments
Share a picture, a video of up to 90 seconds or text, with an optional voice-over, on your profile picture for 24, 48 or 72 hours. See them in the Moments row on Journals, like WhatsApp Status; you choose whether only your followers or everyone can see yours.
Journals
Publish with a rich-text composer and up to 3 topics; readers follow, comment, like, share and save.
The journal feed & Explore
For you (your interests first), Following, Latest and Top this week, with Most read and Who to follow. Explore topics, people and channels, and the week's most looked-at products and courses in its Market and Academy tabs. Keep journals, store items, courses and chat messages in Saved. On a phone, a tab bar along the bottom: Feed, Explore, Market, Academy, Messages, Profile.
Notes Market
Every #NotesApp store in one place: items for you, the most viewed this week, new arrivals, categories and a list of stores.
Notes Academy
Free courses from any publisher, with lessons from their own YouTube that play inside #NotesApp, and paid courses on Pro and above: text lessons, PDFs and, on Business and Enterprise, uploaded videos that never download and carry each viewer's name. Quizzes with a pass mark check what learners have learnt. Teach alone, with up to 4 co-tutors, or as your organisation. Learners like, save and review courses.
Certificates anyone can check
Finish a course and claim a certificate with its own ID and QR code, in the teacher's academy name and logo. Anyone can check it at notesapp.name.ng/certificates; add it to LinkedIn or save it as a PDF or picture. On paid courses it can be included in the price.
The Weekly Digest
A Sunday-evening email with up to ten journals from the week, chosen for your interests, plus four items from Notes Market and four courses from Notes Academy.
Paid 1:1 sessions
Your own price and weekly availability, Paystack checkout, reminders and a clear cancellation policy.
Monthly subscriptions
Readers subscribe to unlock your premium entries; renewals are automatic.
Discount codes & coupons
On every plan, discount codes for your shop, downloads, courses and sessions, shown as coupons in your shop and shared as cards; a My coupons list with reminders before one ends, codes affiliates share as their own, #NotesApp's codes on plans, and Nana applying the best coupon at every checkout.
Gifts
Readers can send you a gift on your profile or on any post.
NotesApp Credit wallet
Top up once and pay for boosts, badges, adverts, gifts, shop items and sessions without entering your card each time. Top-ups of ₦5,000 and more add Bonus Credits. Credit can't be cashed out; sellers are still paid to their banks.
Co-authoring
Write a post with other members, choose who can view or edit the draft, agree each person's share of its earnings, and share the byline.
Referrals & affiliates
Invite friends with your link or code (their first month of a plan free, 20% of their plan payments to you for 12 months) and promote publishers' products from the affiliate marketplace for a share of each sale.
Sell physical goods & digital downloads
Sell in your store (or your organisation's): physical items with photos, Size and Colour options and managed stock, the buyer's money held until delivery is confirmed and a parcel ID anyone can track — or digital downloads that buyers get instantly after paying. Boost any item to reach more readers.
Boost
Promote a post or a store item and pay only for validated impressions.
Verification badges
A verified ✔ for accounts in good standing, and a gold ✔ for accounts we endorse or identity-check.
Ads & ad share
Buy a banner campaign online and reach readers across the site; Pro and Business publishers can opt in and earn a share, paid monthly after review.
View-only files & video courses
On Pro and above, sell PDFs and video lessons that buyers watch or read on #NotesApp with no download, on up to 2 devices per purchase. Videos are hosted on Cloudflare Stream and play only with short-lived links.
Community & Events
For churches, NGOs, schools and clubs: Clubhouse-style audio rooms with a live chat, a General announcement channel, public and members-only Spaces, private Circles on Business, admin tools with View as, and you choose what non-members see. Giving with named funds and receipts, charged like a bank transfer with no commission. Events for every account, with reminders, Join live links and paid tickets with QR check-in at the door.
Parcel tracking for riders & drivers
A chain-of-custody log for every parcel: record each holder — bike rider, bus driver, park agent — and they update the location or hand on to the next person from a short link, with no login.
Shipments & the logistics network
Logistics businesses book shipments, hand them rider to rider and give customers a Track page on their own site. Stores pick a delivery partner from the logistics network, and buyers pay its price at checkout. Business and Enterprise, or the logistics add-on for Free Basic and Pro.
Inventory
Stock per item and option, SKUs, cost prices, low-stock alerts, the history of every change and spreadsheet import and export. Included on Business and Enterprise; an add-on on Free Basic and Pro.
Team seats & your own site
Business includes 4 seats (owner plus three team members) and your own domain with a semi white-label site; Enterprise has as many as you need, an API and the lowest commissions.
Nana AI & help centre
Ask Nana, our helper, about anything on #NotesApp from the chat button on every page, in Messages, or browse the help centre. She links you to the right page and passes you to a person when she can't help. Choose her gem (Pearl, Emerald or Ruby, by plan), use the free allowance that refreshes weekly or top it up with Nana credit; questions asked before are answered free. She also suggests topics from your title, and summarises and translates chats. She is powered by Claude, from our partner Anthropic.
Merch store
Official #NotesApp merch with your choice of logo — pre-order in batches, delivered in Nigeria.
Trending
The most visited notes, store items, courses and publishers on #NotesApp.
Your own site, API & Console
From Free Basic, your own website at /s/your-name: kits by type of business, the Clean, Luxe, Scholar, Legacy, Aurora and Maroon looks with colour sets, and sections for buttons, hours, prices, a gallery, testimonials, team and answers, or publications, awards, talks on a globe and news, a storefront for the shop with a basket, and courses that open inside the site. Business and Enterprise put it on their own domain. Enterprise adds a server-to-server API, signed webhooks and Console keys.
Trust & security
How payments, files, access rules and your data are protected — including downloading or deleting your own data.
#NotesApp in your AI assistant (MCP)
AI assistants that support MCP can find creators, journals, Notes Market items and Notes Academy courses, show open session times and share booking links. With your API key, they can read your own profile, bookings, orders and earnings. It only reads; booking, buying and paying happen on #NotesApp.
Analytics
Earnings, orders, customers, best sellers, stock running low, visits and where they came from, by plan: 7 days for everyone, 90 days with customers and a download on Pro, visits by page and source on Business.
Status & changelog
Live service health with response times and incident updates, plus a changelog of every release.
Video on posts
Add a short video to a post — one MP4 or WebM up to 3 minutes — played in our own player that only loads when you press play.
New: Day, Night or Auto for the whole app, our African pattern behind every chat, and emoji packs with Afro culture drawings and flags. New too: giving and paid event tickets with QR check-in for communities. Still to come: live streaming for communities, the Enterprise course packages, WhatsApp reminders, Send-Na (email, WhatsApp and SMS for builders, priced in Naira), iOS and Android apps, sharing to more social networks (LinkedIn and X are live), and Google and Meta ads alongside our own. The Team hub, company finance tools, an investor data room and advertising on LinkedIn are being tested by our own team and will be paid add-ons for Business and Enterprise once that testing is done — see the roadmap.
Trusted by
Our partners and the services we connect to
Logos and names belong to their owners. They are shown only to say which services we work with, and do not mean those companies endorse #NotesApp.
With thanks
Programmes that back #NotesApp
We are a young company, and these programmes have given us tools and credits that let us build faster. We are grateful.
Worth up to $11,920in credits and free plans, put together. It is a ceiling: what we use will be less.
Claude Startups
- 12 months of the Claude Team plan, up to $625 a month off (2-seat minimum)
- $1,000 in API credits
Thank you, Anthropic. Claude is the AI behind Nana, our helper.
Moda
- 3 months of Moda Pro free, with up to $3,000 in AI credits
Thank you, Moda. Our new look was drawn there.
Granola
- 3 months of Granola Business free, for up to 10 seats
Thank you, Granola, for the AI notepad for our team's meetings.
The total adds each programme's own stated maximum: $1,000 API credits, Claude Team at up to $625 a month for 12 months (that cap is per account, not per seat), up to $3,000 of Moda AI credits, and Granola Business for 10 seats for 3 months at its list price of $14 a seat ($420). Logos and names are the property of their owners and are shown here to thank them. They do not imply endorsement.
Recognition
Special Recognition, Build With NKENNEAi Hackathon
October 2026
For #NotesApp in Kiswahili: journals and lessons translated, read aloud and transcribed with NKENNEAi, so readers in Kenya and across East Africa can read and listen in their own language. Thank you, NKENNEAi.
How we make money — in the open
Reading, commenting, booking, subscribing and buying merch are free to do. Publishers set their own prices; #NotesApp takes a commission on paid sessions, subscriptions and gifts that falls as you move up the tier ladder (from 35% on Free Basic to 15% on Business, negotiable on Enterprise), and a smaller one on store sales: 6% of physical items and 9% of downloads on Free Basic, down to 2.5% and 4% on Business and from 1% and 1.5% on Enterprise. Boosts are priced by validated impressions with no commission. Pro and Business are paid plans; verification badges, gold and our own merch are paid add-ons; free courses cost nothing to publish, and their certificates are paid; paid courses carry the same fee as digital downloads; and advertisers' banner campaigns (paid up front, reviewed before they run, refunded for anything undelivered) fund the ad share we pay opted-in publishers. Every number is on the pricing page.
Trust & safety
- Payments are handled by Paystack — we never store card details.
- Publisher earnings are held until the session has happened (or a 7-day window for subscriptions and gifts) and paid to a verified bank account.
- One published cancellation and refund policy for every session.
- You can download a copy of your data or delete your account yourself — see Trust & security.
- Verified emails are required to pay; accounts can be suspended, for a set time or until lifted, and appealed.
- Messages are private to the two people in them, and calls go straight between the two devices, end-to-end encrypted (with a safety code to check), and are never recorded, and your moments are seen only by the people you allow: your followers, or everyone if you choose (Edit profile, Moments privacy). Anyone can block a member or report a moment or conversation; reports of nudity or violence are reviewed within 24 hours — see Privacy.
- Badges: the #NotesApp team mark for staff and guest writers, the maroon ✔ for accounts in good standing, and a gold badge for accounts we endorse (identity-checked gold also available) — see Verification badges.
- Live service health is public on the status page; see our Terms and Privacy Policy.
Gold badge
Show clients you're the real thing
The gold ✔ marks accounts #NotesApp has either endorsed or identity-checked. It sits beside your name on your profile, in the people directory and on every post — and it's the same price on every plan, from Free Basic to Enterprise.
Endorsed by #NotesApp
We review your public work by hand — who you are, what you publish, links that back it up — and endorse accounts we'd vouch for. No fee to apply or to be reviewed.
Open now · ₦1,999/mo personal · ₦2,999/mo organisation
Identity-checked
People are checked with their NIN and a live face check; organisations with their CAC registration — through our verification partner Dojah. We don't keep your ID documents. A one-off, non-refundable deposit (₦999 personal / ₦1,999 organisation) covers the check, then the same monthly price applies.
Open now · ₦1,999/mo personal · ₦2,999/mo organisation
- 1 Apply on the badges page
- 2 We review it (identity: after the deposit)
- 3 You're approved
- 4 Subscribe — gold shows straight away
Gold replaces the maroon ✔ while it's active and lapses if you stop renewing. The maroon ✔ only shows good standing; gold means we've vouched for you or checked who you are. Apply for gold →
Founder & Guest Writer
Company Accounts
Two, deliberately different. @notesapp is the platform's own voice — our explainer posts, with comments closed. @na-notesapp mirrors everything we publish on our official social handles — real published entries, real comments, same as any journal on here.
