Igneous is a notes app you drive with one thumb. On iPhone there's no toolbar at the top of the screen: everything lives in one dock at the bottom, and it moves the way Safari's tab bar does. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose — on your device, in iCloud Drive, or anywhere Files can reach — so they open in any other app, today and in twenty years. No account, no database, no analytics.
GET ANYWHERE WITHOUT REACHING
• Tap the pill in the dock to search every note, like tapping Safari's address bar.
• Swipe it sideways to move between open notes, and keep going past the last one for a new note.
• Swipe up on it and your open notes spread out as cards.
• Swipe in from the left edge for your notebook, and from the right for the Inspector.
• Pull down on a note to find a word in it. Hold any button for more.
• While you read, the dock folds into a slim pill out of the way. Liquid Glass on iOS 26; solid with Reduce Transparency.
• On iPad: a floating notebook pane, a real tab bar, and as many windows as Stage Manager will hold.
CAPTURE THE MOMENT
• Press the Action Button, a Lock Screen widget or a Control Center tile and you're typing in a new note — even from a closed app.
• Record a voice note from the Action Button, Siri, the app icon or the note you're in. Igneous transcribes it on your device while you talk, shows the words on the Lock Screen, and saves the audio and transcript into today's note or a note of its own.
• Copy a voice note — recording and transcript together — and paste it into Messages, Mail or another note.
WRITE IN MARKDOWN, SEE IT BEAUTIFULLY
• A live editor that renders headings, lists, tasks, tables, callouts, highlights, maths and diagrams as you type, while the file stays plain text.
• A formatting bar just above the keyboard, and Writing Tools that keep your links and structure intact.
• Wikilinks, embeds, backlinks, tags and a graph of how your notes connect.
• Search every note instantly, including handwriting on your canvases.
• Daily notes, a calendar, tasks gathered from every note, templates and a board view.
DRAW WHEN WORDS WON'T DO
• Canvases for sketches and diagrams, with Apple Pencil on iPad, beside cards and links to your notes.
• Opens JSON Canvas and Excalidraw drawings.
WORKS WITH YOUR MAC — AND OFFLINE
• Keep a notebook in iCloud Drive ▸ Igneous and it's on all your devices.
• Or pair with Igneous on your Mac over your own network: the phone keeps a full offline copy and sends its edits when it's back. Changes to different lines are combined, and if you both changed the same words, both versions are kept. Drawings merge shape by shape.
• Nothing ever passes through a server of ours — there isn't one.
SHORTCUTS, SIRI AND WIDGETS
• Actions for new notes, today's note, tasks, search and voice notes, ready for Shortcuts and Siri.
• Home Screen widgets with buttons you choose, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls, Focus filters and Live Activities.
YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES
Igneous reads Obsidian-flavoured Markdown as written and never adds anything you didn't ask for. Point it at the vault you already keep.
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• New: select several notes and folders at once. Press and hold a row, choose Select Multiple, then tap the rows you want. A bar at the bottom shows how many are picked, with Actions to move, pin, duplicate, share or export them, copy their links, open them in tabs, or move them to Trash. On iPad with a keyboard, Command-click and Shift-click pick rows too.
• Undo: after deleting, moving or renaming, tap Undo on the bar that appears.
• iPad sidebar menus now match the iPhone's: rename, move, duplicate, set icon, copy link and delete on notes and folders. Delete works from a keyboard.
• Folders show how many items they hold, and Expand All / Collapse All is in the Notebook menu. Sort by name, date modified or date created, in either direction.
• Rename or merge a tag everywhere: press and hold a tag in Tags.
• Search remembers recent searches and lets you save the ones you use often. Your notes can also appear in Spotlight (Settings ▸ General).
• Export a note as Markdown or plain text, or a whole folder as a zip. Rows can be dragged out of the iPhone sidebar into Files or Mail.
• Settings ▸ General can empty the Trash automatically after 7, 30 or 90 days.
• Fixed: the Custom folder choice for voice notes and Quick Capture did nothing. It now lets you pick any folder. Daily notes can go in the notebook root, Daily Memos, Daily Notes, or a folder you choose.
• Voice: Copy on the Live Activity copies the transcript, and Record Voice Note keeps working when it needs to open the app.
• Share status is clearer: the offline line counts changes waiting to send, and times keep updating.
• Everything from 1.3.2 stays: SMB network shares work completely, and sync is faster and clearer.
Version 1.3.3
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