ZenNotes: Markdown Notes

Productivity

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Plan on your iPhone: swimlanes, subtasks with progress bars and WIP limits on the Kanban board, and templates kept as ordinary notes in a folder of your vault. 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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Swimlanes, subtasks and WIP limits on the Kanban board, quieter task lists, and templates kept as notes in a folder of your vault. • Split the Kanban board into lanes by priority, folder or tag: tap View, then pick a Lanes option. Tap a lane's name to fold it away. • A task's indented subtasks now sit inside its card, with a progress bar such as 2/3 · 66%. Tap the bar to see them and tick them off right on the card. • Touch and hold a board column's header and choose Set WIP limit… to cap it. With more cards than the limit, the column turns red. • Empty checkboxes, like the ones a daily note template leaves, stay out of Tasks, the Calendar and the Home Screen widgets. Tap the hidden count to see them, or turn off Hide empty tasks in the View menu. • Keep templates as ordinary notes in a folder: Settings, Templates, Template folder. They show up when you make a note from a template, and their checkboxes and text stay out of Tasks and search. • Touch and hold a folder in Browse and choose Open as Gallery to see its notes as cards. • If ZenNotes Cloud refuses one file, the rest of your vault keeps syncing, and Settings, Cloud says what to do with that file. Your notes stay ordinary Markdown files, and 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 .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers

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Provider
Lumary Labs LLC
Size
97.9 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