Jotter: Sticky Notes & Lists

Handwriting, voice & widgets

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

New in 1.5: swipe back from any note, PDFs that wear your theme, and a tidier, friendlier app everywhere. Seven free themes. No ads, no subscription, no account. Jotter is the notes app that feels like your desk: sticky notes, checklists, handwriting and voice notes in one place. Tick off groceries from the Home Screen widget, or ask Siri to "add milk to Groceries in Jotter." No ads, no subscription, no account. Your notes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. WHY JOTTER • Fast: one tap on New note, the widget or Control Center, and you are typing • Free: no subscription, no ads, nothing locked • Private: no account and no Jotter server. Notes sync through your own iCloud • Yours: export any note as a PDF or text, or every note as Markdown files CHECKLISTS THAT TICK Type [] and a space to start a checklist. Tick items off with a tap — groceries, packing lists, the ten things to do before Friday. Tap New, pick List, name it, and start adding items. HANDWRITING WITH APPLE PENCIL Write or draw on iPad with Apple Pencil, or with your finger on iPhone, on blank, lined, grid or dotted paper. The page grows as you go. Your handwriting is read on the device, so it turns up in search, and it converts to typed text with a tap. PHOTOS, SCANS AND VOICE NOTES Take photos, scan documents, record voice notes and add files right inside a note. The text in your photos and scans is searchable, and voice notes are transcribed on your device. SEARCH THAT FORGIVES Type a word or two, in any order, without worrying about capitals or accents. Jotter searches titles, text, tags, handwriting and the words inside your pictures, and shows you the sentence it found. ORGANISE LATER, OR NEVER Pin what matters. Write a #tag and it becomes a filter. Make a folder when a set of notes wants a name. Or don't: everything is always in All Notes. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including a list you can tick without opening Jotter • A New note button in Control Center • Siri: "Jot down in Jotter" • The Share button in any app: save a link, photo or text into a new note or one you already have SEVEN THEMES, EACH ITS OWN WORLD Classic sticky notes, Lamplight's desk lamp, Herbarium's field book, Blueprint's drafting grid, Airmail's stamps, Washi tape, and Velvet's plum and gold. Each theme changes the colours, the type, the highlighter, the checkboxes and what happens when you finish a list, and can change your app icon to match. FORGIVING, AND PRIVATE Deleted notes wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Lock a private note behind Face ID. Set a reminder on any note. No analytics, no ads, no tracking — Jotter has no server at all. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD A calm paper-and-ink design with a little comic-book fun around the edges. Light and dark mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and keyboard shortcuts on iPad, where your folders, your notes and the open note sit side by side. Jotter is free. If it earns a place on your Home Screen, you can buy the maker a coffee in Settings. It unlocks nothing, and it is entirely optional. Privacy: https://thebighead.ca/jotter/privacy Terms: https://thebighead.ca/jotter/terms

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Jotter 1.5 is all about feel: easier to get around, tidier everywhere, and lovelier on paper. EASIER TO GET AROUND - Swipe from the left edge to go back from a note. - "All notes" now stays at the start of the chip row, so you're always one tap from home. - Every sheet closes the same way, with a round × in the top corner. - Cancel a scan, drawing or recording you just started and you're back on your list, with no empty note left behind. - The Share button holds every way to send a note; the ••• menu holds what you do to it. PRETTIER PDFs - Exported PDFs now wear your theme: your title highlighter, checkboxes and cross-offs, tidy quote and code cards, and a calmer header and footer. POLISH - + New floats over your notes instead of cutting the list off. - List buttons say what they do: Add item, Untick and Clear. - Clearer names everywhere: Lists, Handwriting, Voice notes. - Headings and titles get their theme's mark, drawn in full. - Undo pops up in your theme's colours, and ticked items read better in Airmail. - iPad keeps your note wide in portrait. - Picking a night theme no longer overwrites your own Light or Dark choice. FIXES - The list widget ticks the right item even if your list changed. - Sending several items to a list from Shortcuts adds each one. - Many small fixes and a smoother, lighter app. Enjoying Jotter? A quick rating on the App Store helps other people find it.

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    Seller
    Jashandeep Singh
    Size
    18.7 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
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