Anytype - The Everything App 4+
Where no one is in between
Any Association
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Take back ownership of your digital life - starting with your notes, bookmarks, documents, tasks, and ideas. Everything you create in Anytype is secure, end-to-end encrypted and offline-accessible.
Anytype syncs to all your devices, so you can stay productive on the go. Draft secure notes, install templates, and see your most relevant information with a fully customizable home screen.
With Anytype, you can:
- Quickly jot down notes and ideas
- Safekeep digital versions of your secure notes and essential documents, and take them with you on the go
- Save & organize bookmarks from the web
- Find out more at: anytype.io
Why use Anytype?
MINIMALIST LOOK
Create beautiful docs, drag and drop elements within your private journals and pages and embed images and media files with a few taps.
FLEXIBLE CUSTOMISATIONS
Connect all your work and batch modify your notes through Sets and Relations. Add Widgets to your homescreen to quickly preview notes and pages, and mark to-dos. Separate your work journal from your secure notes with Spaces.
YOURS TO OWN, FOREVER
We keep expanding the data ownership boundaries of what you can do with a note-taking app. Anything you create on Anytype is saved on-device. Self-host your network or use local-only mode and never lose access to your data or account.
PRIVATE & SECURE BY DESIGN
We use state-of-the-art technologies to shard, hash, and protect your data, which is decrypted by a key that only you know. That means that nobody - whether hackers, governments, or Anytype - can access your secure notes.
OFFLINE-FIRST
Whether on an airplane or in the woods, you never have to worry about a good Internet connection to use Anytype. All features & functionalities are supported offline, and synced in your local network.
SEAMLESS SYNC BETWEEN DEVICES
Your account data and encrypted notes will sync across devices in your local network. Use our encrypted backup sync up to 1GB at no extra charge.
OPEN CODE FOR AN OPEN FUTURE
Our repositories are open for anyone to verify our promises. Our code base is available here: https://github.com/anyproto.
Please join our contributors' community to learn how you can contribute: https://github.com/orgs/anyproto/discussions
What’s New
Version 0.39.2
iOS 0.39.0 Released!
This update marks a big milestone: for the first time, you can take your content from mobile to the web. Alongside that, Spaces are now easier to navigate and join, properties and templates are more convenient to work with, and editing feels more refined.
Web Publishing
You can now publish your Anytype objects to the web directly from the iOS app, bringing full feature parity with desktop and enabling content sharing wherever you are.
- Access the new "Publish to Web" option in object settings.
- Preview your page with a custom URL before publishing.
- Personalize your domain with a unique name on any.org for your published objects by upgrading your membership.
Enhancements
Prominent Undo / Redo Buttons
We’ve added dedicated buttons to the toolbar above the keyboard so they’re always visible while editing.
Paste Images from Clipboard
When you paste an image, it now appears directly as an image block
Scan Documents in / Slash Menu
A new camera action lets you capture and upload document images, inserted as individual image blocks.
QR Code Space Joining
Join a Space instantly by scanning a QR code right from the Vault screen. Tap the + button, choose Join via QR code, and point your camera at an invite. You can also share your own QR code so others can join your Space just as quickly.
Space Search
A new search bar is now available at the top of your Vault screen, making it easier to navigate when you have lots of spaces.
Properties & Templates
We’ve revamped property and template management for a smoother & more organized experience:
- Redesigned Properties panel with clearer layout and expandable sections.
- "Move to Bin" now replaces permanent deletion to help prevent accidental data loss.
- Smarter templates with a cleaner UI, improved default controls and more predictable behavior.
- Visual polish with updated icons, plural naming fixes and header cleanup.
- Behind-the-scenes fixes for filters, type logic and cross-platform consistency.
Embeds
Embed blocks are now partially supported, showing meaningful previews:
- If the embed contains a URL (like YouTube or Soundcloud), it appears as a link block – tap to open it in your browser.
- If there’s no URL (like LaTeX or Charts), it appears as a labeled placeholder so you know what’s inside and can view the content on the desktop.
Fixes
- Added support for .yaml and .yml files in self-hosted setups.
- The recovery phrase can now be revealed without requiring a device passcode.
- Many small design and UI tweaks for your smoother experience.
Ratings and Reviews
Frustrating UX
Update Apr 2025: the UX was frustrating before, and now it’s unusable.
Data management just got clumsier, and the UI is even less intuitive than before.
The update changes all the bookmarks into direct links. This impacts all Bookmarks that have been edited, had information organised, or even Bookmarks changed to another Type. I’ve lost many hours and a lot of data.
This means that even editing the links is no longer convenient, and the feature I use most (bookmark external link > capture information later, keep link as reference) is now obsolete. It’s unthinkable how every Bookmark is now essentially just a link button.
I have no reason to organise information on this app anymore. Frankly, between the incoherent updates in this app, you shouldn’t either. If you do, you need to maintain a copy of your database on another app.
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I love Anytype’s privacy features, but everything else is a trial.
I use this app daily, to organise one field of knowledge. I’ve lost many links I thought were saved in the database, because I didn’t realise the app wanted me to manually select the space *repeatedly, multiple times, every few hours*.
It also can’t do many rollup or customisation features if you use it for PKM. Simple example would be getting “@today” as a date tag to work as expected in a template setting.
This app works best if you’re manually inputting everything by typing it. Not if you’re copying + pasting text (you get random line breaks) or if you’re organising bookmarks (because of the Space selection issue, that is now touted as a ✨ Feature ✨ in the app updates).
(From an aesthetics POV, I’m so used to having the full emoji library as icons, and now I don’t even have the correct flags as symbols for pages I have about certain countries)
App Privacy
The developer, Any Association, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Any Association
- Size
- 206.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Belarusian, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Any Association
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Builder RM499.90