markdown notes - Smolpad

markdown notes - Smolpad

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  • August 5, 2026
  • September 4, 2026

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Smolpad is a smol Markdown editor with respect for your files. Every note is a plain .md file you can open with any app, on any device, forever. Your files are your own. No database. No lock-in. No bloat. Just a tiny, fast home for your notes on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. WRITE IN MARKDOWN, BEAUTIFULLY • Syntax dims as you type, or hides away entirely with one tap • Task lists become real checkboxes. Checkboxes that check. • Headings, bold, italic, code, and quotes, styled as you write • A formatting bar for common touches, plus full keyboard shortcuts • Pictures too: drag or paste one in, resize it by its corner, and it lives as a plain file beside the note YOUR FILES, ANYWHERE • Notes sync through your own iCloud Drive, included free • Open your notes folder in Finder or Files any time • Organize with folders, pins, and instant search • Nothing ever leaves your devices except to your own cloud SMOL ON PURPOSE • On the Mac, Smolpad lives in your menu bar, one hotkey away • Tear off a note into its own window when you want to stay a while • On iPhone and iPad, it opens fast and stays out of your way • Seven hand-picked fonts and a clean, quiet interface MAKE IT YOURS WITH SMOLPAD PRO • Unlimited notes (the free tier includes ten) • Dropbox sync, in an app folder that belongs to you • Twenty-seven editor themes, from Tokyo Night to Catppuccin • Seventeen app icons and the full menu bar icon set Smolpad Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The free tier is a real notes app, not a trial. Made by a smol team that believes plain text outlives everything. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smolpad.com/privacy
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What's New in markdown notes

1.3.5

September 4, 2026

NEW • Pictures in your notes. Drag or paste an image into a note and it appears in the text at its own size. Smolpad copies the file so the note keeps working when the original moves: beside the note, or into an images folder, your choice in Settings > Editor. Drag a corner to resize it. Pictures travel with their notes on iCloud and on Dropbox. • An image button in the formatting toolbar, next to the link button. On iPhone and iPad it asks Photos or Files. On the Mac, Shift-Command-V does the same thing. When the editor is too narrow for the whole row, the buttons that do not fit move into a More menu. • A picture has its own menu: right-click on the Mac, press and hold on iPhone and iPad. Resize to a width in points or back to its original size, Show in Finder or Show in Files, and Delete, which asks first and removes the file too unless another note still uses it. • Edit a link you cannot see. With Reveal syntax under the cursor turned off, select a link and press Command-L or tap the link button: a small card opens with the link's text and its address, both editable, plus Remove Link. • Tap the title to rename a note on iPhone and iPad. A small panel opens with the name ready to edit. The name then stays put and no longer follows the note's first line, the same as Rename from the list. • Option-Command-S inserts a separator, the line that divides one part of a note from the next. • Show in Finder, from a note's right-click menu on the Mac. On iPhone and iPad it reads Show in Files and appears when your notes are in iCloud or in Smolpad's own folder, which the Files app now lists under On My iPhone. • A New Note button in the Mac panel's header, for anyone who turns the editor's floating one off. One of the two is always there. • Your first week of Smolpad Pro Yearly is free. Cancel any time before it ends. CHANGED • The panel opens ready to read, not ready to type. No cursor lands in the note until you click into it, and switching notes lets the cursor go. A note you just created is the exception: it opens with the cursor on its first line, keyboard up on iPhone and iPad. • The Dock icon follows the tear-off on the Mac. Drag the panel into its own window and Smolpad appears in the Dock and in Command-Tab; close the window and it goes back to living in the menu bar. With Menu Bar & Dock set, the icon stays put as it always has. • While you type on iPhone and iPad, the New Note button floats above the formatting bar, level with the character count, out from under your thumbs. • Settings > Editor keeps the type controls together under Font Settings, and the counts read a size larger. • The indent button is gone from the Mac toolbar. The Tab key does the same job. iPhone and iPad keep it. • Smolpad may ask you to rate it, at most three times a year and only after you have finished writing on three separate days. There is a Rate Smolpad link in About whenever you want it. FIXED • Editing a note's title no longer takes the cursor away on the Mac, or the keyboard down on iPhone and iPad. • A tag can start with an accented letter. #Übersetzung and #élan are tags now, like #ideen and #idees always were. • A fresh install remembers your purchase, and trying a TestFlight beta no longer unsets Pro in the App Store app. • The toolbar's image button works on the Mac. It opened nothing before. • The outline pane paints to the bottom with the keyboard up, hiding Markdown hides a picture's code too, and press and hold lifts just the picture instead of the whole note. • On iOS 27, typing near autocorrect no longer flashes the cursor to the wrong line for a frame.

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