What you get
Dingpin does one job: keeping a notification or note where you will actually see it. Everything runs on your phone — there is no sign-up, no server, and no data leaving the device.
- Pin notes and notifications to the top of the notification shade, where they stay until you unpin them.
- Keep a searchable history of notifications that arrived, including ones you already dismissed.
- Add your own notes to a captured notification so the context is not lost.
- Copy text straight from a pinned item without reopening the original app.
- Export or share what you captured — the last day, week, month, or everything.
Requirements and permissions
Dingpin runs on Android 8.0 (API 26) and above, which covers the large majority of phones still in use. Beyond installing it, the only permission it needs is notification access — that is what lets it read and pin notifications. It does not request contacts, location, storage, or phone access, and there is no account to create.
Is the APK safe to install?
A fair question, since Dingpin is distributed as an APK rather than through an app store. The full source is public on GitHub under Apache-2.0, so you can read exactly what the app does or build it yourself. Captured data stays on your device and is never uploaded — see the Privacy Policy for how the app and this website handle data.
If the install is blocked
Android warns you the first time you install an app from outside a store. If the install button is greyed out, open Settings, search for Install unknown apps, and allow it for the browser you used to download the file. You can switch it back off afterwards. If Play Protect shows a prompt, choose Install anyway — that message appears for apps that are not yet widely installed, not because something is wrong.
Not what you were looking for?
You do not need an app for every situation. The built-in options are covered in the guides: see how to pin a notification on Android and the full notification guide index.