# Calamus Ideas — Notes & quotes for authors

> Notes & quotes for authors (iPhone/iPad app by Calamus LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calamus-ideas/id6804830402 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Calamus LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6804830794)
- Category: Productivity, Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-10

## What is Calamus Ideas?

Calamus Ideas is a notes and writing-tracker app for novelists and anyone working on a long project.

WRITE THE NOTE BEFORE YOU LOSE IT
Open the app, type, save. There is no project to pick and no file to name.

Share an article from Safari and the link is attached to the note for you.

FILE IT SO YOU CAN FIND IT
Every note can carry a category, a pen name, and a book title. 

Eight categories are built in: Book Title, Character Name, Concept, Article, Phrase, Design, Musing, Other. Add your own.

Create pen names and book titles inside the app. You do not have to set them up somewhere else first.

COLLECT QUOTES
Save lines from what you read, and from your own books.

Quotes are grouped by pen name and book.

Share a quote to any app on your phone. The book title and your buy link go with it.

Quoting somebody else? Record who said it.

FOCUS TIMER
A Pomodoro timer for writing sittings.

Set 5 to 90 minutes, in 5 minute steps.

Put your own photograph behind the clock.

Choose how it tells you time is up: a sound, a screen flash, or a vibration. Set it in Settings.

When you finish, send the sitting to your writing log and add a note about what you got done.

WRITING LOG
Words written and words cut are counted as two separate numbers, because a day spent cutting is still a day of work.

See both, by day.

Keep a daily streak.

Assign any session to a pen name and a book, or leave it unassigned.

Log a session by hand, or send one straight from the Focus timer.

WORKS WITH CALAMUS
Everything saves to your account. The same notes, quotes, and log are on your Mac, your iPad, and in the browser.

A note assigned to a book is waiting with that book when you sit down to write.

Already own Calamus? Calamus Ideas is included. Sign in with the same account.

SUBSCRIPTION
Calamus Ideas, $4.99 per month, auto-renewing.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.

Terms of Use: https://calamusapp.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://calamusapp.com/privacy

Without an active subscription you can still read everything you wrote, take a full copy of it, and delete any of it. You cannot make changes.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Calamus Ideas | $4.99 | per month |


## Is Calamus Ideas safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Calamus Ideas.

## Is Calamus Ideas legit?

Calamus Ideas has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Calamus Ideas is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-07

Fix a pen name or a book title. In Settings, tap any pen name or book to rename it. The new name shows everywhere it is used: your notes, your quotes, and your writing log.

Move a book to a different pen name. Its notes and writing log go with it.

Delete what you no longer need. Delete a pen name or a book from the same screen. Notes filed under it are kept and move to Unassigned, so nothing you wrote is lost.

Changed your mind? Deleted books wait in Archived Books in Settings for 30 days, with a Restore button on each.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-06

Capture anywhere, even offline. Ideas and quotes you save without a connection are kept on your iPhone, shown right away, and sent the moment you are back online. The share sheet holds on to anything it cannot send yet, so nothing you share is lost.

Collected quotes. Quotes now record their source, no longer need a pen name, and every quote opens to be edited, Collected ones included, showing who said it. Sharing a quote posts it just as Calamus does on the web.

Your accent color from the very first screen and on every sheet, and clearer messages when a change cannot be saved.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-21

No release notes.

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