# markdown notes - Smolpad — Your text files in sync > Your text files in sync (iPhone/iPad app by BaconWorks, LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/markdown-notes-smolpad/id6792438749 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [BaconWorks, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783126115) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 35 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Russian - Released: 2026-08-05 - Data updated: 2026-08-26 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/markdown-notes-smolpad/id6792438749/reviews.md ## What is markdown notes? 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 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 ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Smolpad Pro | $14.99 | per year | | Smolpad Pro | $1.49 | per month | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Smolpad Pro Lifetime | $29.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.3.4 — 2026-08-25 NEW • Thirteen new editor themes: Solarized, GitHub and Everforest in light and dark, GitHub High Contrast, Alucard (Dracula's own light half), Afterglow, Nord and Bearded Milkshake Mint. Twenty-seven themes in all, eleven of them light. • Five new app icons: Smol Skeuomorphic, Smol Coast, Smol Notebook, Smol Sketches and Smol Pixels. Seventeen in all, and every one has a line of its own if you point at it. • An outline of your note, beside it. Turn it on from the editor's toolbar or with Option-Command-O, and every heading lists down the side. Click one to jump to that section. On iPhone it opens as a sheet. • Open Markdown and text files with Smolpad. Drop a .md on the Dock icon, use Open With, or drag files onto the note list. Your originals are never touched or moved. • Reorder notes by hand on iPhone and iPad, and drag them into folders. Press and hold a row anywhere outside its title, then drag. • More keyboard. Command-1 to Command-9 jump to a note by its place in the list, Command-K goes to search, Command-L inserts a link, Command-W puts Smolpad away without quitting it, and Command-/ opens a card listing every shortcut. • Markdown syntax can stay hidden for good. Settings > Editor has a new switch under Hide Markdown syntax: turn off Reveal syntax under the cursor and the markers never appear at all. • A wider note list on the Mac. Settings > Appearance offers Compact, Standard, Wide and Extra Wide, or right-click the list to change it without opening Settings. • The panel has a close button in its top left corner. The quit button is off by default now, and quitting is a right-click on the menu bar icon. • Reduce Motion is respected, and Settings > Storage opens your notes folder in the Finder or the Files app. FIXED • A deleted welcome note stays deleted, and the folder Smolpad makes on first launch cleans up after itself. • Hide Markdown syntax now hides it while you type. Only the piece you are editing shows its markers, and opening a note no longer reveals its first heading. • The Mac panel can no longer be dragged too small to use, and Reset Window Size puts an oversized one back. • macOS 27 beta: tearing the panel off works again, and the delete and rename dialogs take clicks. ### 1.3.3 — 2026-08-19 NEW • Tags. Type #ideas in any note and it becomes a chip you can click. Browse every tag from the tag button, filter the list down to one, and autocomplete offers tags you have already used. • Word and character counts in the status bar, each with its own switch in Settings. • German and French. The whole app, translated by people who use it. • Pick your icon set: Chonk, the hand-drawn original, or San Francisco, Apple's own symbols. Switches instantly. • Two new app icons: Smolpad Lemon and Smolpad Travelers. • Search can stay open for good. • Pinned notes can be dragged into your own order without putting the whole list into Manual sort. FIXED • Dragging notes to reorder them works again. It had been broken since 1.3.2, and it is rebuilt from scratch underneath. • Bug fixed: The panel no longer shows a transparent strip across its top, and stray window buttons stay gone. • A cancelled subscription now returns to the free tier promptly instead of lingering. • Restore Purchases says the App Store could not be reached, instead of telling you that you never bought anything. • On the free tier, deleting a note now brings back your oldest hidden note, rather than offering a slot that would swallow the next note you write. • App icon previews in Settings are sharp again, and the theme picker grows with larger accessibility text instead of clipping it. ### 1.3.2 — 2026-08-08 Send anything to Smolpad: this update adds a share extension. On any web page, tap Share and pick Smolpad to clip the page's link into a note. Have text selected first and the selection comes along, formatted your way: a tidy quote with a linked title, plain text, or a bullet. Pick a note or start a new one, and Smolpad remembers your choice for next time. Also in this update: swipe a note all the way to delete or pin it in one motion, a delete confirmation that is easier to read in every theme, and assorted small fixes. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-06 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*