ZenNotes: Markdown Notes

Productivity

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Notes now open ready to read, every folder opens as a Gallery of its covers, and the new Calendar widget puts your month and the day's tasks on your Home Screen. ZenNotes is a local-first markdown notes app for writing, organizing, and connecting ideas without giving up ownership of your files. YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES Every note is a plain .md file in a vault you control. Start with storage on your iPhone or iPad, use iCloud Drive, or open a folder through the system document picker. Local and iCloud vaults work without an account. ZENNOTES CLOUD Connect an optional ZenNotes Cloud plan to: • Sync a vault across ZenNotes desktop and mobile • Sync notes and attachments • Create manual and automatic daily backups • Restore a full vault or a single note from a backup • Publish notes to the web and manage their public links Cloud never replaces the free local-first workflow. Use it only when you want hosted sync, backup, or publishing. WRITE IN MARKDOWN Use a focused editor with headings, lists, tasks, tables, code, links, wikilinks, tags, callouts, footnotes, and frontmatter. A mobile formatting bar keeps common actions close to the keyboard, and a pinch resizes the text to your eyes. RICH, OFFLINE PREVIEW Render KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, JSXGraph, function plots, tables, callouts, and more directly on your device. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Pin your go-to notes and folders to the top, swipe rows to act on them, create and rename nested folders, browse tags, search the full vault, manage tasks, create periodic notes, and work with table databases stored as CSV. CAPTURE QUICKLY Create a quick note from the app or send text and links to ZenNotes from the iOS share sheet. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Start a note, open a recent one, or check today's tasks without opening the app. New Note also lives on the Lock Screen, and the widgets wear your theme. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT ZenNotes has no advertising or tracking. Local and iCloud notes stay in the storage you choose. When you enable ZenNotes Cloud, the account identity, connected-device information, and vault content needed for the Cloud features you use are sent to the ZenNotes service. Payment details are handled by Stripe. ZenNotes is open source. Your vault remains useful outside the app because it is made of ordinary files.

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A Calendar widget for your Home Screen, notes that open ready to read, a Gallery for every folder, cover images on notes, and math in your diagrams. • Add the ZenNotes Calendar widget to your Home Screen: the month with your writing dots and week numbers, and the day's tasks below with a box to tick (turn on Daily notes under Settings, Vault, Periodic notes). The large size shows a day; on iOS 27 the extra-large size shows the whole week. A tick shows at once, the day's count drops with it, and it lands in the note the next time you open the app. • Notes open ready to read. Open one from Home, Browse, a list, a link, a search, a widget or the command palette, or go back to it, and it shows rendered with the keyboard down: tap the text when you want to type. Closing the command palette, running a toggle from it, or coming back to the app leaves the keyboard down too. • Open a folder as a Gallery: its notes as cards, each led by its cover image. Run Open Folder Gallery from the command palette, and tap a card to read its note. • A note's cover image shows across its top, as on the desktop. In Edit mode its cover lines fold into one quiet line; tap it to edit them. • Database tables choose the columns each view shows, pick rows to show only those, and make new table views or copies of a view with the + button. • Turn a paragraph into a callout, change its type or remove it with Set Callout Type and Remove Callout in the command palette. • Tap a code block's language label to pick its language. A block without one shows the language it detects. • Typing in a note you just named goes under its title, and an empty task indented with Tab keeps what you type after its checkbox. • Leave the Quick Note prefix blank in Settings and new quick notes are named with just the time and date. • The Tasks filter finds a task note by a tag written anywhere in its text. • Mermaid diagrams typeset $$ math in their labels, and text on a colored node stays readable in light and dark themes. • Done and the back button close a PDF opened as a reference and leave you on your note. • The Daily, Weekly and Monthly Notes folders show once in the drawer instead of twice. • Ticking a task in a note saved with Windows line endings ticks the right task. Your notes stay ordinary Markdown files, and local and iCloud vaults work without an account.

The developer, Lumary Labs LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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Provider
Lumary Labs LLC
Size
97.8 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
© 2026 Lumary Labs LLC