Ilaro 4+
Research Note Database
twenty.two o.nine squared, llc
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- £4.99
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Description
Organize your notes and increase your research productivity with Ilaro, a research note taking database that combines the best features of note cards, research journals, and databases in one beautiful and friendly interface. Ilaro makes it easier to organize research notes, track citations, develop new ideas, and prepare to write research reports. Used by students, professors, authors, and professionals, Ilaro saves time and gets the most out of your research.
WIDESPREAD ADOPTION
* Reached top grossing app lists in 34 countries!
* Used by students, authors, and professionals for a wide range of projects
* An excellent tool for organizing writing notes
Key Features:
EFFICIENT WORKFLOW
* Quickly record citations and sources
* Organize research notes with simple tagging of topics and sources
* Enter sources using ISBN lookup or use your device camera to scan barcodes
* Track research questions and ideas in the journal
* Manage multiple projects
* Keep iOS devices synced via iCloud
DISCOVER NEW IDEAS
* Discover the strongest connections between research topics, sources, and authors
* Ilaro automatically tracks key connections between your research notes and topics
* View research notes along with related topics, sources, and authors
* Filter note cards by many attributes such as topic and source
* Use full-text search to filter notes
* Save live updating filters
* Track your topic, source, and author card counts and relationships
* See research activity on a per-day basis
FLEXIBLE AND POWERFUL
* Stay organized by taking structured notes
* View notes related to events on a structured timeline
* Make notes of any length you desire
* Helps enforce strong research note taking skills
* Prepare bibliographies and export references
ACTIVELY USED IN A VARIETY OF PROJECTS
* Academic research
* Research papers
* Book writing
* Lecture preparation
* Business and legal research reports
* Historical research
SHARE YOUR WORK
* Print note cards over Air Print
* Export notes and bibliographies
* Open exported notes in other apps
* Export cards to other Ilaro users
RESPONSIVE SUPPORT
* All user feedback is carefully considered for improving the app
* Contact support at https://www.ilaroresearch.com/help/ with any questions, feature requests or just to share how you use Ilaro!
Thank you for supporting independent developers!
What’s New
Version 3.74
This update includes stability and performance improvements:
* fixed issues related to list selection
* improved cloud sync behavior
* updates for forward compatibility
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing
Under its simple-to-use surface this is a more sophisticated app than might be obvious. That's how it should be. A great app makes life simpler whilst increasing the amount you get done. I'm bowled over by the sensible design.
There are other database apps for iOS, good in their way. But I found them a bit clunky and they were taking time from the job I was trying to do. For me they failed the test of survival in real-life use. Index Card is a great app but it doesn't do what Ilaro does.
Ilaro presents itself as a card index with searching by keywords. The beauty is that anyone making notes understands this. But as the blurb makes clear, it's quite a bit more cunning, and is so without being abstruse. For example, details of an author only need to be recorded or edited once for all the notes made on that author's works. Similarly, I misspelled the keyword 'History'. But I only needed to correct it in one place for it to appear correctly on all the cards to which it applied. Then of course you can select, rearrange, display, export an print your cards in a variety of useful ways and keep a diary of your thoughts. Unlike a real card index your data are backed up on iCloud (provided you've synced at some stage via iTunes & you're connected to iCloud).
Because it's purpose-made for one job you don't need to think about database design. That's good; very good. But the one job lends itself to more uses than research notes. Some cataloguing for example. Or writing.
Launched in November 2012, it's improved steadily and the amazingly responsive developer tells me that some improvements which sound seriously good to me are in the pipeline. Even without these I'll carry on using it enthusiastically.
Ilaro is a delight to use, neatly addresses a real task, and has solved a set of note-keeping problems for me. Brilliant.
No guide to use it
There is no user manual or video available to show you how to use it.
I have emailed several times, got auto-acknowledgement, but never a reply.
Retried the app after May/June 2018 update. App crashed as soon as "Use iCloud" was selected in Settings!
Update
I was told there would be an update in December 2013, I have sent two emails this year asking when it would be updated and now they have my money they don't even reply.
App Privacy
The developer, twenty.two o.nine squared, llc, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Provider
- twenty.two o.nine squared llc
- Size
- 105.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © twenty.two o.nine squared, llc 2012 - 2019
- Price
- £4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.