Sift — Notes You Can Find
Markdown notes, found fast
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Search that survives typos, plurals and compound words. Wikilinks and backlinks. Every version of every note kept. Your notes stay on your device as plain Markdown files.
Sift is a notes app built around one question: can you find what you wrote?
Most note apps can't. Their search matches text exactly, so it misses "lightbulb" when you typed "light bulb", misses "running" when you searched "run", and gives you nothing at all when your thumbs put an extra letter in a word. Sift is built the other way round.
FIND WHAT YOU HALF REMEMBER
• Typo tolerance — "meting notes" finds "Meeting notes"
• Word endings — "run" finds "running", "city" finds "Cities"
• Compound words, both directions — "light bulb" finds "lightbulb", and the other way round too
• Accents ignored — "resume" finds "résumé"
• Results as you type, with the matching words marked so you can see why something matched
• Filters when you want them: tag:work/clients, is:todo, "exact phrase", -exclude, updated:>2026-01-01
NOTHING IS EVER LOST
Every save is a revision. Open the history of any note, read any earlier version, and bring it back with one tap. Restoring is itself just another revision, so it can't destroy anything either.
Notes are written one file at a time, and the history is written before the file is replaced — so even an interrupted write leaves your words recoverable. Deleted notes wait 30 days in the trash.
NOTES THAT KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER
Type [[ to link one note to another. The link works both ways: the note you point at shows everything that points back. A connections view draws the shape of what you've been thinking about, and notes you've mentioned but not written yet become an invitation to write them.
WRITING THAT FEELS RIGHT
• Live Markdown — headings, bold, highlight, quotes, code, checklists
• Lists continue themselves; Return on an empty item ends the list
• Tap any line to put the cursor exactly there
• Tick checkboxes without entering edit mode
• Nested tags like #work/clients/acme
• Pin, archive, and lock notes behind Face ID
• Light and dark, six accent colours, three writing fonts, four text sizes
YOUR NOTES ARE YOURS
Every note is a plain Markdown file stored on your device. No account. No server. No sync that can fail, because there is nothing to sync. Export any note, or all of them, whenever you like.
Sift is free. There is no subscription, no advertising, no note limit, and no paid tier holding features back.
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The developer, Muhammad Hasan Zafar, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Muhammad Hasan Zafar
- Size
- 30.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Muhammad Hasan Zafar