Scratch Pad works as an all-purpose note pad for your Android phone. Just open the app and tap down your stray thought, list, question, witticism, wry observation, or eureka moment using the Android keyboard. Your notes appear on a single page–with no folders, categories, or structured lists. Scratch Pad autosaves everything you write until you delete it by tapping the menu’s Clear button. You can also control the look of your Scratch Pad page: Manage the text size from Preferences and use the Color Picker to set the text and background to any colors or shades you can imagine.

Scratch Pad provides a useful alternative to specialized grocery and to-do list apps, not to mention pockets full of random slips of paper.