Maho Notes
Beautiful Markdown note-taking
Free · In-App Purchases
Markdown notes that live on your device. iCloud and GitHub sync, on-device semantic search, and full multilingual support — including 中文, 日本語, and 한국어.
Maho Notes is a markdown-based note-taking app for people who care about their words — and want to keep them.
Every note is a plain .md file on your device. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in, no servers you don't
control. Sync through your own iCloud, your own GitHub repo, or keep notes purely local — your choice.
A NOTES APP THAT SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE
Full multilingual support, including search across English, 中文 (Traditional Chinese), 日本語 (Japanese),
and 한국어 (Korean) — powered by a CJK-aware tokenizer that actually understands word boundaries in each
language.
Add furigana to Japanese kanji, Zhuyin to Mandarin, Tâi-lô to Taiwanese, or readings to Korean — all with one
simple syntax: {漢字|ふりがな}.
THREE WAYS TO SEARCH
• Keyword search — fast SQLite FTS5 across every note
• Semantic search — on-device vector embeddings find ideas, not just words
• Hybrid — both, fused into one ranked list
Models run entirely on-device. Nothing about your notes leaves your hardware.
WRITTEN IN MARKDOWN, RENDERED BEAUTIFULLY
• Full CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown
• KaTeX math equations
• Mermaid diagrams
• Syntax-highlighted code blocks
• Ruby annotations for any language
• Image and asset embedding
• Tables, task lists, footnotes
ORGANIZE YOUR WAY
Vaults hold collections. Collections hold notes. Drag-and-drop reordering, custom icons and colors,
hierarchical sub-collections, and per-collection ordering — all stored in plain YAML you can read.
SYNC THAT RESPECTS YOU
• iCloud — seamless across your Apple devices
• GitHub — version your notes as a private repo, sync through your own account using GitHub's official Device
Flow login (no third-party server in the middle)
• Device-only — keep everything offline
Conflicts get clearly-named files (note.conflict-DeviceName.md), never silent overwrites.
UNIVERSAL APP
One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Optimized layouts for each: a focus-friendly stack on iPhone, a
three-column workspace on iPad and Mac, with the same vault wherever you are.
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The developer, Kuo-Chuan Pan, 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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Information
- Provider
- Kuo-Chuan Pan
- Size
- 17.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Large Tip $9.99
- Medium Tip $4.99
- Small Tip $1.99
- Copyright
- © Kuo-Chuan Pan
