JotBox: Scratchpad
Quick Notes for Real Life
Free · In‑App Purchases
New in 1.2: headings with a jump-to outline, cleaner formatted paste, Paste from Markdown, Keep tags, quick New Note, Undo after delete, and images from the Share Sheet.
Your thoughts, minus the filing cabinet.
JotBox is a fast, private scratchpad for the thoughts you need to catch before they disappear.
Open the app and start typing. A blank page is always ready, notes live in one simple timeline, and structure appears only when it helps.
WRITE AND FORMAT
- Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, text color, and highlight
- Headings (H1, H2, H3) with # shortcuts and a collapsible outline for jumping through long notes
- Bullets, numbered lists, and checklists you can tick without raising the keyboard
- Left, center, justified, and right alignment, plus indent and outdent
- Links, and inline images from your photo library, camera, pasteboard, or the Share Sheet
- Rearrange the formatting bar to put your favorite tools first
PASTE AND COPY CLEANLY
- Formatted paste keeps headings, emphasis, links, and lists while dropping foreign fonts and colors
- Paste from Markdown turns Markdown into real formatting
- Copy a whole note or a selection as Markdown
FIND AND ORGANIZE
- Full-text search with snippets and highlights
- Pin notes, reorder them, or sort by most recent
- Lock private notes with a password and optional Face ID
- Mark reference notes read-only
- Keep tags protect important notes from automatic Recycle Bin cleanup
- Undo a delete, or restore notes from the Recycle Bin
KEEP YOUR NOTES YOURS
- No account required
- Optional live sync through your private iCloud account
- Separate iCloud Drive backups and a restorable backup file
- Export as text, Markdown, or PDF
- No ads and no analytics
JotBox runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with keyboard shortcuts throughout.
Try everything free for 7 days. JotBox Pro is a one-time $3.99 unlock for editing, creating and managing notes, and rich attachments. No subscription. Your existing notes always stay viewable, copyable, shareable, and exportable.
Ratings & Reviews
JotBox 1.2 is about structure without clutter.
- Headings: Body, Heading 1, 2, and 3, with # shortcuts and a collapsible outline for jumping through long notes. On iPad and Mac it stays open beside the note.
- Cleaner paste: formatted text from other apps keeps its headings, emphasis, links, and lists without foreign fonts or colors. Paste from Markdown turns Markdown into real formatting.
- Copy as Markdown for a whole note or just the selection, with a quick Copied confirmation.
- New Note button in the top bar.
- Undo right after deleting a note, which restores its pin and position.
- Keep tags protect notes from automatic Recycle Bin cleanup.
- Sort notes manually or by most recent, from Settings or the sidebar.
- Share images into JotBox from Photos, Safari, and other apps.
- Paragraph alignment, plus a customizable formatting bar.
- Search remembers your last query for a few minutes.
- Mac: Tab and Shift-Tab indent, toolbar tooltips, and a freely resizable window.
- Many reliability fixes for checklists, undo, links, images, and copy and paste.
The developer, Daniel Bragilevsky, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Daniel Bragilevsky
- Size
- 9.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- JotBox Pro $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Dan Bragilevsky

