# Foldcrumbs: Private Answers — Ask your notes, privately > Ask your notes, privately (iPhone/iPad app by Vincenzo Ingrosso.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foldcrumbs-private-answers/id6821162391 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Vincenzo Ingrosso](https://appshunter.io/developer/6819742020) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 323 MB - Languages: American English, Italian - Released: 2026-10-25 - Data updated: 2026-10-29 ## What is Foldcrumbs? Private answers from your notes: ask them anything. Foldcrumbs reads them on your iPhone, read-only, and answers citing the note it came from. No cloud, no account. If Obsidian builds your second brain, Foldcrumbs lets you ask it — and connects it to an AI agent. Foldcrumbs works with any folder of notes on your iPhone or in iCloud Drive, and with Obsidian vaults. Add as many as you like and ask all of them at once, the way you'd ask a person. Foldcrumbs finds the right notes even when you use different words, and on iPhones with Apple Intelligence it writes a short answer that cites each note and where it came from. Tap a source to open it in Obsidian, or preview it for a plain folder. YOUR NOTES, READ-ONLY • Several vaults ("Work", "Personal"…) and folders of .md and .txt notes, each with its own name; switch one off without removing it. • Foldcrumbs reads your notes where they live (On My iPhone or iCloud Drive) and never writes to them. • It understands frontmatter, #tags and [[wikilinks]]: "#recipes" filters by tag, "@Work" searches a single source. • Always up to date: it re-reads only new or changed notes, when you open it and at night while your iPhone charges. YOUR OWN CRUMBS TOO • Tell Foldcrumbs what to remember; answers combine crumbs and notes. • "My Crumbs" has its own screen: search by words or #tag, filter by origin or by what is still to review, sort and group. It stays quick with thousands of crumbs, and each one shows where it came from. Newer crumbs replace older ones, and "Forget" really deletes. DISTILLATION (OPTIONAL, OFF BY DEFAULT) • Foldcrumbs can rewrite your notes into short, clean crumbs, so answers get sharper. Strongly recommended, but it never starts on its own. • You choose who does it: Apple's on-device model (nothing leaves your iPhone, at night while charging), or Claude, GPT or any OpenAI-compatible service with your own API key. • Before anything is sent, you see how many notes go out, to which service and address, and the estimated cost; secrets are removed and you can exclude sources. You review every result: accept, reject or correct it, swipe to decide, or accept them all at once. "Accept automatically" stays off unless you turn it on. CONNECT AN AI AGENT • "Ask", "Search Crumbs and Notes" and "Remember" are available in Siri and the Shortcuts app, so any agent that can run Shortcuts can use your second brain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No data collected by the developer: no account, no server, no ads, no tracking. • Works offline: the search model ships inside the app. • Choose whether your crumbs go into your iPhone backup, or export them as a .zip or a folder of .md files. GOOD TO KNOW Written answers need an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on; without it, Foldcrumbs still shows the notes and crumbs it found. PDFs, photos and recordings are left to FoldFinder, its sister app. Foldcrumbs for iPhone is inspired by foldcrumbs, an open-source project for AI agents (github.com/vcnngr/foldcrumbs). The app itself is a separate rewrite: its code is not part of that project. Foldcrumbs is an independent app that works with Obsidian vaults; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian. Obsidian is a trademark of Dynalist Inc. Includes the EmbeddingGemma 2 model by Google DeepMind, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (license and notices inside the app, under About and Licenses). Gemma is a trademark of Google LLC; this app is not affiliated with Google. ## Is Foldcrumbs safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Foldcrumbs. ## Is Foldcrumbs legit? Foldcrumbs: Private Answers appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Foldcrumbs is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2.2 — 2026-10-27 Fixes and improvements: • More reliable recall: memories and notes containing certain punctuation or special characters (for example «;») are now read exactly the same way every time you open the app, so what Foldcrumbs finds no longer shifts from one launch to the next. • Your existing memories are fixed automatically in the background the first time you open the app: nothing is deleted and your .md files are not changed. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-26 Fixes and improvements: • Export archive (.zip) no longer closes by itself: the share sheet stays open until you save the file. • Restoring from an archive now works with archives larger than 200 MB. • Overnight indexing picks up again on its own if iOS pauses it, so you don't need to tap Continue. ### 1.2 — 2026-10-25 No release notes. ## More apps by Vincenzo Ingrosso - [Sync for Health](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sync-for-health/id6819742018) - [FoldFinder: Ask Your Files](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foldfinder-ask-your-files/id6821163092) All apps by Vincenzo Ingrosso: https://appshunter.io/developer/6819742020 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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