ZenNotes: Markdown Notes

Productivity

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Fold the details, keep the overview. Lists, tasks and callouts collapse as you read or edit, and Atlas gives newly linked notes space of their own. 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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Lists, tasks and callouts now fold. • Keep a long task note to one line per task. Bullets, numbered items and tasks with indented details can collapse in Edit and Read. Folding leaves your Markdown and checkbox states alone. • Callouts support [!note]- to start collapsed and [!note]+ to start expanded. Tap the title in Read, or its chevron in Edit, to bring the details back. Existing callouts stay expanded. • When Cloud finds vault settings that differ from another device, the choice now fits the screen, so its buttons are always within reach. • Atlas gives newly linked notes room beside the notes they connect to and separates linked notes that older layouts piled together. • Note opening hands focus to the editor more reliably, and refreshes preserve open notes with unsaved text. Built on ZenNotes core 2.58.1, shared with the desktop and Android apps. Your notes stay ordinary Markdown files. 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
    • 84.1 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