# Notebook – Markdown Notes — Your notes, in any folder > Your notes, in any folder (iPhone/iPad app by Lukas Kaibel.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/notebook-markdown-notes/id6823609514 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Lukas Kaibel](https://appshunter.io/developer/1657047393) - Category: Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 27.0 · 30 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-27 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Notebook? The ease of Notes. The freedom of files. Notebook keeps every note as a plain Markdown file, in your own iCloud Drive or any folder you choose. There is no vault to set up and nothing to import: your notes sit right next to the PDFs, photos and documents they belong with, and they stay yours. Obsidian and other Markdown apps open the same files. And it writes like Notes. Headings, bold, lists and checklists look finished as you type, and their Markdown marks show only on the line you're writing. Pictures, PDFs and drawings go right into the note. On the Mac, iPhone and iPad it's an Apple app through and through: widgets, Spotlight, Shortcuts, the share sheet, Apple Pencil and the keyboard shortcuts you know. NEW IN 1.2 • Handwritten notes on blank, lined, squared, dotted or Cornell paper, with Apple Pencil or a finger • All Pages: see every page at once, drag them into a new order, duplicate and delete them • Pictures on any page, and pages added as you write, on handwritten notes and every PDF • Draw on PDFs and highlight their text on the Mac too • VoiceOver reads a note as you see it WRITE • Tables, code, maths and Mermaid diagrams, drawn right in the note • Pictures, PDFs and files in the note, kept in a hidden .assets folder beside it • Drawings with Apple Pencil, a finger, the mouse or the trackpad, in the note and right on PDFs • Version history: every earlier version of a note, with what changed marked • [[Links]] between notes that keep working when you rename or move them FIND • Search finds words in notes, PDFs, pictures, scans and handwriting, and names from a few letters, typos included • ⌘K finds anything and runs any command, and every note is in Spotlight TO-DOS • Every open checkbox of every note in one list, by when it's due, as in Reminders • Dates, times, places and repeats are written into the note, where other Markdown apps read them too YOUR FOLDERS • iCloud Drive as the Finder shows it, with drag and drop, and Undo for moves, renames and the Trash • Share to Notebook from any app, widgets for a new note, today's to-dos and a note, and import from Apple Notes • Folder symbols and colours, kept where the Finder keeps them PRIVATE • No account, no server, no tracking. Notebook sees only the folders you choose. To look around first, Try Sample Notes on the first screen makes a folder of sample notes. Notebook is free and open source: github.com/lukaskaibel/notebook ## Is Notebook safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Notebook. ## Is Notebook legit? Notebook – Markdown Notes appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Notebook is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-04 Notebook 1.2 brings handwritten notes. • Handwritten notes on iPhone and iPad: write with Apple Pencil or a finger on blank, lined, squared, dotted or Cornell paper. A handwritten note is a PDF in your folder, right next to your typed notes, and every PDF app shows what you wrote. On the iPad, New Note asks whether to type or write by hand. • Pages as you need them: pull past the last page for a new one, give a page other paper, and see every page at once in All Pages, where you drag pages into a new order, duplicate and delete them. • Pictures on the page: photos, the camera, scans and pictures from Files, moved, turned and resized with the lasso, and as sharp as the handwriting however far you zoom in. • All of it works on any PDF, so you can write next to lecture slides and after the last one. • On the Mac: draw on PDFs with the mouse, the trackpad or a tablet, highlight their text with ⌃⌘H, and hold Shift for a straight line. • Copy File: ⇧⌘C or a file's menu copies the whole file, as the Finder does, to paste into Mail, Messages or the Finder. Pasted into a note, a file from your folders becomes a link to it, and one from elsewhere is copied in. • VoiceOver reads a note as you see it, line by line, and a double-tap ticks a to-do. • Nothing you write is lost: a note that can't be saved is tried again and kept in Unsaved Notes, and where there is no Recently Deleted, Undo asks before deleting a note you have written in. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-01 Notebook 1.1 brings widgets, version history and a lot of polish. • Widgets: New Note on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and the Mac's desktop, and as a control in Control Center and on the Action button. A Today widget with your to-dos for today and the overdue ones, ticked right in the widget, and a Note widget that shows a note of your choice. • Share to Notebook: text, links, pictures and PDFs from any app's share sheet become a new note, or go at the end of the note you opened last. • Version history: Notebook keeps earlier versions of your notes as you write. Show Changes marks what's new and what went, and Restore puts a version back. File › Revert To on the Mac, Version History in the ⋯ menu on iPhone and iPad. • Import from Apple Notes: export notes from Notes as Markdown, then import them with their pictures, links and folders. • Draw and write on PDFs right on the page on iPhone and iPad, with Apple Pencil or a finger, saved into the PDF itself. Markup for pictures, and a file is renamed by tapping its name, as in Files. • Files are no longer greyed out: every file's icon is in the accent colour, and Settings gives each kind a colour of its own if you like. • To-dos that repeat every week, weekday, month or year, to-dos that aren't in a note, and swipe to delete in To-dos. • Sort a folder by date edited or date created. • Search and ⌘K find names loosely, as Spotlight does: "kytr" finds Kyoto trip, and a typo or two is fine. • On the Mac: Edit › Find in a note, Spelling and Grammar, Attach File, and File › Duplicate, as in Notes. Closing the window no longer quits Notebook. • On iPhone and iPad: a note's text follows the system's text size, the bar above the keyboard has the size of Notes', and notes fade softly under the bars as you scroll. • Notes are saved in the background, so a slow disk or iCloud never makes you wait. • Many fixes, among them a hang on the Mac with the same note open in two windows, and deleting on iPhone and iPad. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-27 No release notes. ## More apps by Lukas Kaibel - [LOGIT – Track your Workouts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/logit-track-your-workouts/id6444813640) - [Issues – Project Board](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/issues-project-board/id6819589759) All apps by Lukas Kaibel: https://appshunter.io/developer/1657047393 --- *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 2026-11-06.*