Google has been giving more of its apps the Material 3 Expressive treatment, and Keep is the latest to get the visual refresh. What started as leaked glimpses of the updated search bar and UI tweaks is now officially rolling out to more users.

The standout change in Keep’s update is the revamped M3 Expressive search bar. It’s now chunkier and sits between the profile switcher and hamburger menu, which have been pulled out of the bar itself. That shift makes the bar a bit taller but not as wide. 9to5Google first caught the change.

It’s not just the layout getting a refresh. Google has swapped out the old “Search your notes” placeholder with a simpler “Search Keep.” The search filter chips also have a new look.

The classic “Google Keep” animation still shows up at launch before switching over to the updated “Search Keep” bar and column picker. Even the floating action button (FAB) got a slight revamp, now showing icons first before their text labels.

Rounded corners everywhere, from buttons to image previews

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The toolbar has been touched up too, now rocking bigger icons with rounded backdrops. Down at the bottom, the plus, color/background, and formatting buttons are now circular, and the overflow menu shifts into a pill-shaped look.

Meanwhile, the pin, reminder, and archive buttons up top sit in rounded square backgrounds. Inside notes, image previews get a polish too, with side margins and rounded corners. Even the overflow menu has been shuffled a bit, moving the “Edited” timestamp from the bottom to the top.

The new Material 3 Expressive look is arriving with Google Keep for Android version 5.25.282.00.90, activated via a server-side update. It’s a low-key refresh, but it gives Keep a cleaner, more modern vibe that fits right in with Android’s latest design direction. Similar visual changes have recently popped up in other Google apps like Gmail and Google Wallet, among others.