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The notes app that's actually yours.

A fast, beautiful markdown workspace with banners, an infinite canvas, wikilinks, a power-user command palette and Public View — a privacy mode no other notes app has. Your notes are plain files you own — synced across every device.

Plain-text markdown Syncs across devices Yours to keep, forever
Vault Notes in dark mode — a travel note with a mountain cover banner, callouts, highlights and a live table, split beside a packing checklist
Live markdown Wikilinks & embeds Infinite canvas Public View privacy Mac · Windows · iPhone · iPad
Everything in one vault

A real workspace, not just a text box

Powerful where you need it, invisible when you don't — with a few tricks no other notes app can match.

Live markdown editor

Headings, tables, task lists, callouts and code render as you type — with floating and contextual formatting toolbars.

Wikilinks & transclusion

Link with [[brackets]], preview on hover, embed whole notes or sections inline, and see every backlink.

Infinite canvas

Drop images, notes and text onto a boundless surface, group them, and wire them together with arrows.

Public View

Hide flagged folders and media on a schedule — or instantly with one command. Built for screen-shares and shoulder-surfers.

Command palette

Hit ⌘K to search, run commands, browse folders with /, jump by #tag or filter your whole vault.

Daily notes

A fresh dated entry every day, automatically. Build a habit and watch your journal grow into a searchable timeline.

Split view & tabs

Chrome-style note tabs, drag one aside for a side-by-side split, with a live outline and version history.

Rich pages

Cover banners with parallax, image galleries, inline floats and a full attachments library — no plugins required.

Handwritten notes

On iPad, write and sketch with Apple Pencil. Hold a stroke to straighten it, and rough triangles, boxes and circles snap crisp — each sketch lives in your note as an editable drawing.

Everywhere you are

Native Mac & Windows apps and a SwiftUI iPhone & iPad companion with a home-screen widget — your vault, in sync.

Themes & focus mode

Auto light/dark with a warm gold accent, custom widths, and a distraction-free focus mode with typewriter scroll.

Take the tour

Built for the way you actually think

From a quick daily log to a sprawling visual canvas — every view is fast, focused and beautiful. These are real screenshots, not renders.

Infinite Canvas

Spread everything out and connect the dots

Pull images, notes and text onto an endless surface, group what belongs together, and draw the relationships between them. Brainstorming without borders.

  • Image, note & text nodes you can drag anywhere
  • Directional arrows and labelled groups
  • Pan, zoom and frame to focus
A canvas note: four photos in a labelled References group, connected by arrows to a text card and a live snapshot of the Iceland note
Command Palette

Your whole vault, one keystroke away

Brought over from the best search I've used. Hit ⌘K and go: open notes, run commands, browse a folder, filter by type, or search a phrase and land right on it — highlighted.

  • : commands — /folder browse — #tag jump
  • Full-text search that scrolls to & flashes the match
  • Filters for canvases, pinned, images, orphans & more
The command palette open over the editor, listing : commands — :public Toggle Public View highlighted, plus :settings, :focus, :theme and :new
Tabs, Split & History

Work two notes at once — and never lose a version

Open notes as Chrome-style tabs, drag one to the side for an instant split, follow long docs with a live outline, and roll back any change with built-in version history.

  • Reorderable note tabs with drag-to-split
  • Live outline, backlinks & one-click history
  • Custom page widths, from full-bleed to focused column
Split view: a project note with callout, tasks and banner beside its research note with rich link cards, a pricing table and highlighted text
Rich Pages

Notes that read like a magazine

Cover banners, gap-free photo grids, floated images with polaroid frames and captions, highlights, callouts — all of it plain markdown underneath, styled with a couple of tokens.

  • Image floats with text wrap, captions & frames
  • 2–5 column photo grids, packed edge to edge
  • ==Highlights==, callouts & footnotes
A Lisbon travel note with a floated polaroid-framed photo and caption, a checklist, highlighted text and a three-image photo grid
Daily Notes & Timeline

A journal that keeps itself organized

A fresh dated note every day, automatically. Timestamped lines get a timeline rail in the margin, and you can embed any section of any note — the trip budget lives in the trip note, and today's entry just quotes it, live.

  • Auto-created daily note, searchable forever
  • Timeline dots beside **9:30am** lines
  • Transclusion — embed a live section of another note
A daily note with timeline dots beside timestamped entries, wikilinks, a highlight, and the Iceland budget section embedded live
Math & Beyond

LaTeX when you need it, invisible when you don't

Inline and display math render with KaTeX — currency-safe, so $5 and $10 stay plain text while formulas turn beautiful. Step-by-step column layouts keep the derivation on the left and the plain-English on the right.

  • Inline $…$ and display $$…$$ math
  • Multi-column blocks for side-by-side working
  • Tags, TL;DR callouts & footnotes round it out
A finance note rendering KaTeX display math, a step-by-step two-column derivation, tag pills and a TL;DR callout
The feature no one else has

Public View — present without oversharing

Flag any folder or image as private. Then hide it all on a schedule, or flip it instantly with :public. Perfect for screen-shares, presentations, a café table, or handing your phone to a friend — your personal notes simply aren't there until you say so. It's airtight by design: every view, preview, search and thumbnail respects it — and a Touch ID lock can blur the whole app the moment it loses focus.

Public View On9:00–17:00
Vault Notes locked — the entire app blurred to unreadable behind a Touch ID gate
The full list

Everything Vault Notes can do

Fifty-plus features, all in one app you own — free to use, no plugins to wrangle.

Pricing

Free to use. Pro to sync.

The whole app is free, forever, on one device. Add Pro when you want your vault backed up and in step across everything.

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$0 / forever
The whole app, on your device.
  • Every editor, canvas & navigation feature
  • Privacy Mode & the command palette
  • Plain-text files you own, on your disk
  • Obsidian vault import
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$4.99 / month
or $49.99 / year — 2 months free
Everything in Normal, plus:
  • Google Drive sync across all your devices
  • Automatic cloud backup of your whole vault
  • Mac, Windows, iPhone & iPad, always in step
  • Cancel anytime
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Make your vault today

Turn a folder on your computer into the fastest, most private, best-looking workspace you've ever owned — and carry it in your pocket. Launching soon on Mac, Windows & iOS.