Igneous: Markdown Notes
Fast, gesture-driven vault
Free · In‑App Purchases
Igneous is a notes app you drive with one thumb. On iPhone there's no toolbar at the top of the screen: everything lives in one dock at the bottom, and it moves the way Safari's tab bar does. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose — on your device, in iCloud Drive, or anywhere Files can reach — so they open in any other app, today and in twenty years. No account, no database, no analytics.
GET ANYWHERE WITHOUT REACHING
• Tap the pill in the dock to search every note, like tapping Safari's address bar.
• Swipe it sideways to move between open notes, and keep going past the last one for a new note.
• Swipe up on it and your open notes spread out as cards.
• Swipe in from the left edge for your notebook, and from the right for the Inspector.
• Pull down on a note to find a word in it. Hold any button for more.
• While you read, the dock folds into a slim pill out of the way. Liquid Glass on iOS 26; solid with Reduce Transparency.
• On iPad: a floating notebook pane, a real tab bar, and as many windows as Stage Manager will hold.
CAPTURE THE MOMENT
• Press the Action Button, a Lock Screen widget or a Control Center tile and you're typing in a new note — even from a closed app.
• Record a voice note from the Action Button, Siri, the app icon or the note you're in. Igneous transcribes it on your device while you talk, shows the words on the Lock Screen, and saves the audio and transcript into today's note or a note of its own.
• Copy a voice note — recording and transcript together — and paste it into Messages, Mail or another note.
WRITE IN MARKDOWN, SEE IT BEAUTIFULLY
• A live editor that renders headings, lists, tasks, tables, callouts, highlights, maths and diagrams as you type, while the file stays plain text.
• A formatting bar just above the keyboard, and Writing Tools that keep your links and structure intact.
• Wikilinks, embeds, backlinks, tags and a graph of how your notes connect.
• Search every note instantly, including handwriting on your canvases.
• Daily notes, a calendar, tasks gathered from every note, templates and a board view.
DRAW WHEN WORDS WON'T DO
• Canvases for sketches and diagrams, with Apple Pencil on iPad, beside cards and links to your notes.
• Opens JSON Canvas and Excalidraw drawings.
WORKS WITH YOUR MAC — AND OFFLINE
• Keep a notebook in iCloud Drive ▸ Igneous and it's on all your devices.
• Or pair with Igneous on your Mac over your own network: the phone keeps a full offline copy and sends its edits when it's back. Changes to different lines are combined, and if you both changed the same words, both versions are kept. Drawings merge shape by shape.
• Nothing ever passes through a server of ours — there isn't one.
SHORTCUTS, SIRI AND WIDGETS
• Actions for new notes, today's note, tasks, search and voice notes, ready for Shortcuts and Siri.
• Home Screen widgets with buttons you choose, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls, Focus filters and Live Activities.
YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES
Igneous reads Obsidian-flavoured Markdown as written and never adds anything you didn't type. Point it at the vault you already keep.
Fixes for the side panes and the recording banner, a rework of the iPhone Duo outer display, and a new Portrait only option.
• Fixed a rare case where the notebook drawer stayed open and pushed the note to the side after a swipe was interrupted. Panes now always settle fully open or fully closed.
• Fixed the closed notebook pane peeking in at the edge of the screen when an iPhone is turned sideways.
• New Settings ▸ Capture & Gestures ▸ Portrait only keeps Igneous upright on iPhone.
• While you record a voice note, the recording banner now folds out of the way when the Inspector opens, the way it already did for the notebook drawer.
• iPhone Duo outer display: the pill is back at the bottom with the same gestures as on iPhone, and the header is gone so the note fills the screen top to bottom.
• iPhone Duo: Back and Forward are stacked at the bottom of the side bar, and there is a new Inspector button. The notebook and Inspector buttons each open and close their pane, alongside the swipes.
• iPhone Duo: the "…" menu is organized into Navigate, Note, Tabs and Settings.
The developer, JASON RANDALL DORFMAN, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- JASON RANDALL DORFMAN
- Size
- 44.2 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
- Small Tip $9.99
- Large Tip $49.99
- Medium Tip $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jason Dorfman
