Supported Features
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Reduced Motion
Notesmith
Private notes, no account
$29.99
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Notesmith keeps your notes on your own iPhone, iPad and Mac. Turn on Sync and they travel straight between your own devices. No account, no server, nothing in the middle.
Notesmith keeps your notes on your own iPhone, iPad and Mac. No account and no server.
Turn on Sync and your notes go straight between your own devices, so nothing sits in the middle.
SYNC
• Pair once with your Mac and your notes and tags come over
• Your notes travel straight between your own devices. They never reach a server, because there is none
• The first time a device asks to pair, you accept it by hand, and every session is encrypted
• Off by default. With Sync off, the app opens no connection at all
• Edits travel both ways every half minute while both apps are open on the same network
• A small preview of each picture comes over too; the original, PDFs and recordings stay on the Mac. Locked blocks arrive still locked
WRITING
• A note is a stack of blocks. Type / for a heading, a list, a checklist, a quote or code
• The / menu knows other names for things, so todo finds a checklist and bullet finds a list
• On iPad, a toolbar keeps marks and lists one tap away. Hide it to have the page to yourself
• On iPhone, the toolbar docks above the keyboard and appears only while you are typing
• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and highlight, with the Markdown markers hidden
• Three heading sizes, round or dashed bullets and numbered lists that renumber themselves
• Checklists, with a tap to check one off
• Nest list items, then fold them away with a chevron
• Long-press the margin beside a block to move it, turn it into another kind or delete it
• Select across several blocks to copy, cut or delete them in one go
• With a hardware keyboard, shortcuts cover indent, every mark, each heading size, moving blocks and links
CONNECTIONS
• Write [[Note Title]] to link another note, and #tag to tag it
• Connections draws what a note links to, what links to it and what shares a tag. Tap any of them to open that note
• A note that cites a Bibliome document shows that too
SIRI & SHORTCUTS
• Create a note or notebook, append, open by name, get its text or find notes by title or tag, hands-free or from a Shortcut
• Mark a task done and list what is still open, without opening the app
STAYING TIDY
• Swipe or long-press a note to pin it, and pinned notes get their own section at the top
• The list is grouped into Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days, then by month
• The sidebar lists every tag with a count, and a tap shows the notes that carry it
• A deleted note waits 30 days before it is gone for good, and one tap restores it
• Import an Apple Notes export or an Evernote .enex file
• Also Markdown, plain text, HTML, PDF and spreadsheets (.csv, .tsv)
• Import on the Mac to keep pictures and PDFs, because Sync does not carry them from the phone
• Mark a note Never Share with AI to keep Writing Tools out of it. Sync carries the choice to your Mac, which also keeps the note from Apple Intelligence, Spotlight, Shortcuts and Bibliome
The app is in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese.
ON THE MAC
These are on the Mac today, not on iPhone or iPad:
• Search, find in a note, undo and note history
• Notebooks and saved searches, plus templates and Someday/Maybe notes, which sync but show only on the Mac
• Due dates for checklist items, the Tasks list and the Getting Things Done section
• Organise Library, which proposes notebooks from your tags
• Full-size pictures, PDFs and voice notes
• Tables, dividers, callouts and maths
• Locking and opening a block with a passphrase
• Exporting a note as PDF, Word, Markdown, Rich Text, a web page or plain text
• Apple Intelligence writing help, on Macs that support it
• Asking your Bibliome library and finding sources, with Bibliome 1.6 or later
Notesmith is one purchase for both, so if you have this you have that.
Evernote is a trademark of Evernote Corporation. Apple Notes is a trademark of Apple Inc. Notesmith is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
Ratings & Reviews
• typing a web address and pressing Return now makes it a link
• tap a link inside a table cell to open the note it names, and tags in cells are found
• Sync sends an edit by itself a couple of seconds after you stop typing, and looks for your other devices again when you come back to the app. when two devices change different lines of one block, both edits are kept, and when they change the same block the older one is kept under the newer
• fixed: tables and pictures were cut off at the right edge on iPhone
• fixed: typing a backslash next to other markup could move the paragraphs below it
The developer, Joshua Langberg, 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.
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Joshua Langberg
- Size
- 18 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Joshua Langberg 2026
