Zealous Notes
Sortable, Stackable Notes app
USD 4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A lot like the Notes app you're used to, plus some added features:
• Open several notes as a stack.
- related notes can be linked together.
• Subdivide your notes into Sections
• PDFs, Video & Audio files attach inline, alongside your notes' contents.
- PDFs can be zoomed, scrolled, searched & marked-up.
- Videos can play picture-in-picture or full-screen
- Voice Notes audio files can be transcribed (with your permission)
• Keep related notes together:
- embed related notes as attachments
- assign relatable #hashtags to your notes
• Marker Mode
- mark anywhere inside or outside of your notes
- link markup with highlighted or underlined text in your notes.
• Link notes to your Calendar events (with your permission)
• Case sensitive Find/Replace/Replace-All
• Multiple Line-Spacing options
See the included `Getting Started` guide for more, including several additional features available from within the app's Settings.
more • Pasted links present as tappable image attachments, dynamically generated from link metadata.
- Pasted URL strings will also generate an image alongside the URL, which may be deleted, if desired.
2026031801 20 Mar
• Pre-populate the search field with selected text.
• Performance & stability updates, resolving:
- circumstances where text-block-offset feature `clips` its paragraph.
- the ease with which a list item transitions back into normal text mode.
- circumstances where a context menu expansion becomes occluded by or coincides with other UI.
- monospaced text inhibiting carriage returns.
2026031601 17 Mar
• Marker/Overlay Mode Pinch-to-Zoom
• Accessibility:
- Optional `Solarized` setting — higher contrast with reduced glare.
- Larger, isolated Attachments/Text Formatting button with long-press haptics.
- Improved Control Panel background opacity setting
• Performance & Stability Updates
2026030601 7 Mar
• Marker/Overlay Mode Pinch-to-Zoom
• Accessibility:
- Optional `Solarized` setting — higher contrast with reduced glare.
- Larger, isolated Attachments/Text Formatting button with long-press haptics.
- Improved Control Panel background opacity setting
• Performance & Stability Updates
2026022402 26 Feb
• Improved performance for editing Lists & Marker Mode buttons.
2025111001 11/11/2025
• Updated User Interface
- Control bar sits above the on-screen keyboard or below your notes.
- Added Overlay button animation indicating the extent to which a section's overlaid markup has scrolled into view.
• Inline playability for most audio & video attachments.
• Performance & stability improvements.
*v2025103002
- replaces the draggable controls panel in Text mode,
- the final 18.x-compatible version.
2025103002 03/11/2025
v2025042201
• Updated User Interface
• Performance & Stability Updates.
2025042201 23/04/2025
v2025041801
• Updated User Interface
• Performance & Stability Updates.
2025041901 20/04/2025
Attach your selected Voice Memos quotes within your note.
- tap the attachment to jump to the quote within the transcript.
If you have a feature request, please leave a Review from within the app.
- from the app's file browser, tap the star-emblazoned speech bubble!
2025020502 06/02/2025
Performance, stability & guide updates, including:
• More intuitive gestures — Drag-n-Drop Attachments, Swipe-to-Emphasize Text Blocks, Tap-to-Focus Sections, and more...
• More detailed explanations in embedded notes beyond the initial `Getting Started` guide.
• More feature-rich Shared Links benefits.
Attach Images via Apple's Image Playground!*
• From within a note, position the caret wherever you want your image to attach, or select a preexisting image in your note to have Image Playground begin with that,
• Press & Hold on the Plus Button to reveal the options menu, then select "Create an Image",
• Describe the image you intend to create & see what Image Playground creates,
• Tap the "Done" button at the top of the Image Playground sheet to attach the image within your note.
* Apple Intelligence-capable device required.
Be sure to keep your Zealous Notes version up-to-date for the best experience.
If you have a feature request or an issue that needs attention, please submit a Review from within the app; from the file browser, tap the star-emblazoned speech-bubble button, located along the top of your screen.
2025020401 05/02/2025
Attach Images via Apple's Image Playground!
• From within a note, position the caret wherever you want your image to attach, or select a preexisting image in your note to have Image Playground begin with that,
• Press & Hold on the Plus Button to reveal the options menu, then select "Create an Image",
• Describe the image you intend to create & see what Image Playground creates,
• Tap the "Done" button at the top of the Image Playground sheet to attach the image within your note.
Performance, stability & guide updates are always included in every update; this version includes:
• More intuitive gestures — Drag-n-Drop Attachments, Swipe-to-Emphasize Text Blocks, Tap-to-Focus Sections, and more...
• More detailed explanations in embedded notes beyond the initial `Getting Started` guide.
• More feature-rich Shared Links benefits.
Be sure to keep your Zealous Notes version up-to-date for the best experience.
If you have a feature request or an issue that needs attention, please submit a Review via the app!
2025020301 04/02/2025
• Performance & Stability Enhancements
* Future updates will require i(Pad)OS 18.1 or later.
2025012601 27/01/2025
iPad UI additions:
• Resize the top-most note in a stack of notes.
• Tap a note in the stack to bring it to the front.
• Tap the file browser behind a stack of notes to open it in a new window.
All Platforms:
* v2025012101 also addresses issues to do with the PDF attachment markup toggle button & the text-emphasis (block quote) swipe gesture.
2025012101 22/01/2025
The newest version of Zealous Notes includes the following new features:
• Swipe across blocks of text to add prominence.
• Transcribe audio attachments from Apple's Voice Memos app.
- Tap anywhere in a transcript to jump playback to that spot.
- Search transcripts for areas to which you would like to jump.
- Quote selected text from a transcript;
- attach Quotes to other notes via the Plus button.
- Augment transcripts with your own edits, as necessary.
• Create a stack of notes by tapping (or holding) the Stack button.
• Share content from your other apps via their Share Sheets; attach shared items to your notes via the Plus button.
2025011001 12/01/2025
The newest version of Zealous Notes includes the following new features:
• Swipe across blocks of text to add prominence.
• Transcribe audio attachments from Apple's Voice Memos app.
- Tap anywhere in a transcript to jump playback to that spot.
- Search transcripts for areas to which you would like to jump.
- Quote selected text from a transcript;
- attach Quotes to other notes via the Plus button.
- Augment transcripts with your own edits, as necessary.
• Create a stack of notes by tapping (or holding) the Stack button.
• Share content from your other apps via their Share Sheets; attach shared items to your notes via the Plus button.
2025010603 07/01/2025
• Assign drawings to any highlighted or underlined words in your notes.
- Useful for peer-review feedback, or for providing handwritten examples to reinforce text descriptions.
- See the "Getting Started" -> "Controls" -> "Marker Mode" attachment for an explanation of the feature.
• Performance & stability improvements for Overlay, Marker Mode, Inline PDF, Lists & Find/Replace utilities.
* All '+' button actions now use the tap-&-hold (long-press) gesture.
2024062701 27/06/2024
• Assign drawings to any highlighted or underlined words in your notes.
- Useful for peer-review feedback, or for providing handwritten examples to reinforce text descriptions.
- See the "Getting Started" -> "Controls" -> "Marker Mode" attachment for an explanation of the feature.
• Performance & stability improvements for Overlay Markup, Inline PDF, Lists & Find/Replace utilities.
* All '+' button actions now use the tap-&-hold (long-press) gesture.
2024062601 26/06/2024
• Toggle Line-Spacing via the Left Edge Select gesture.
Line-spacing is nominally set from within your app Settings & defaults to 'Medium';
now, you can use the Left Edge Select gesture* to change it on selected Sections.
• Resolves Lists mode stickiness.
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* enabled in Settings->ZealousNotes->Left Edge Select
2024043001 01/05/2024
• Updated "Getting Started" Guide to include recently added features.
• Additional performance & stability improvements.
2024042601 27/04/2024
• Rearrangeable List Items •
- Select items to rearrange via the `Left Edge Select` gesture*.
- Drag an item's thumb button to rearrange the list or reposition it elsewhere in your note.
*Enable the 'Left Edge Select' gesture from within Settings -> Zealous Notes.
• New Settings option to enable case-sensitive #hashTags*
- #important & #IMPORTANT would each refer to their own notes.
- hashtags are not case-sensitive by default.
• On iPad, use Apple Pencil to write & edit below your notes' margins or directly on your notes.
- prior versions required you to choose between these two options in settings.
• Improved text- & attachment- formatting options via the pop-up menu.
- Bold, Italics & Underline are now nearer the top of the menu.
• Additional performance & stability improvements.
2024042201 23/04/2024
• New Settings option to enable case-sensitive #hashTags
- activation would mean #macro & #Macro refer to different sets of notes.
- as of this update, hashtags are *not* case-sensitive by default.
• On iPad, use Apple Pencil to write & edit directly on your notes, or below your notes' margins.
• Improved text- & attachment- formatting options via the pop-up menu.
• Additional performance & stability improvements.
2024041801 18/04/2024
Added Features:
* Auto-generated #hashtags
• Select one or more tags to reference your related notes, and present them as a notes-stack for easier study.
• Link notes to your Calendar events (with your permission).
* The Plus Button
• Tap the button to quickly insert a new section.
• Hold the button to link one or more related notes together.
Linked notes present as a notes-stack & can be shared as a bundle.
2024031701 19/03/2024
Date Improvements + An Important Bug Fix.
• Dates are now localized as per your settings in iOS.
• Tap a note's creation date to jump to that time in your calendar.
• Up-to-date save info is located at the bottom of your notes.
*v2.1.3 resolves a bug causing attached note links to embed themselves in unexpected locations within their host notes.
2.1.3 11/11/2023
• Improved attachment focus & activity indicators.
- displays a 'spinner' during a paste/drop of a large file onto an open document.
- mitigates the potential for confusion vis-à-vis PDF markup mode focus.
2.1.2 07/11/2023
• New Markup Mode auto color opacity Settings toggle.
• Performance & UI enhancements.
* Resolved:
- an issue where a print command from within Markup Mode resulted in a crash or a misaligned print-preview.
* Note: iOS 17.1 Update resolves an issue regarding Markup Mode Lasso Tool responsiveness.
2.1.1 31/10/2023
• Pasted links present as tappable image attachments, dynamically generated from link metadata.
- Pasted URL strings will also generate an image alongside the URL, which may be deleted, if desired.
more Version 2026031801 20 Mar
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