# Notesmith — Private notes, no account > Private notes, no account (iPhone/iPad app by Joshua Langberg.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/notesmith/id6802464646 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Joshua Langberg](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778935245) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: $29.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 17 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-23 - Data updated: 2026-10-13 ## What is Notesmith? Notesmith keeps your notes on your own iPhone, iPad and Mac. No account and no server. Turn on Sync and your notes go straight between your own devices, so nothing sits in the middle. SYNC • Pair once with your Mac and your notes and tags come over • Your notes travel straight between your own devices. They never reach a server, because there is none • The first time a device asks to pair, you accept it by hand, and every session is encrypted • Off by default. With Sync off, the app opens no connection at all • Edits travel both ways every half minute while both apps are open on the same network • A small preview of each picture comes over too; the original, PDFs and recordings stay on the Mac. Locked blocks arrive still locked WRITING • A note is a stack of blocks. Type / for a heading, a list, a checklist, a quote or code • The / menu knows other names for things, so todo finds a checklist and bullet finds a list • On iPad, a toolbar keeps marks and lists one tap away. Hide it to have the page to yourself • On iPhone, the toolbar docks above the keyboard and appears only while you are typing • Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and highlight, with the Markdown markers hidden • Three heading sizes, round or dashed bullets and numbered lists that renumber themselves • Checklists, with a tap to check one off • Nest list items, then fold them away with a chevron • Long-press the margin beside a block to move it, turn it into another kind or delete it • Select across several blocks to copy, cut or delete them in one go • With a hardware keyboard, shortcuts cover indent, every mark, each heading size, moving blocks and links CONNECTIONS • Write [[Note Title]] to link another note, and #tag to tag it • Connections draws what a note links to, what links to it and what shares a tag. Tap any of them to open that note • A note that cites a Bibliome document shows that too SIRI & SHORTCUTS • Create a note or notebook, append, open by name, get its text or find notes by title or tag, hands-free or from a Shortcut • Mark a task done and list what is still open, without opening the app STAYING TIDY • Swipe or long-press a note to pin it, and pinned notes get their own section at the top • The list is grouped into Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days, then by month • The sidebar lists every tag with a count, and a tap shows the notes that carry it • A deleted note waits 30 days before it is gone for good, and one tap restores it • Import an Apple Notes export or an Evernote .enex file • Also Markdown, plain text, HTML, PDF and spreadsheets (.csv, .tsv) • Import on the Mac to keep pictures and PDFs, because Sync does not carry them from the phone • Mark a note Never Share with AI to keep Writing Tools out of it. Sync carries the choice to your Mac, which also keeps the note from Apple Intelligence, Spotlight, Shortcuts and Bibliome The app is in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. ON THE MAC These are on the Mac today, not on iPhone or iPad: • Search, find in a note, undo and note history • Notebooks and saved searches, plus templates and Someday/Maybe notes, which sync but show only on the Mac • Due dates for checklist items, the Tasks list and the Getting Things Done section • Organise Library, which proposes notebooks from your tags • Full-size pictures, PDFs and voice notes • Tables, dividers, callouts and maths • Locking and opening a block with a passphrase • Exporting a note as PDF, Word, Markdown, Rich Text, a web page or plain text • Apple Intelligence writing help, on Macs that support it • Asking your Bibliome library and finding sources, with Bibliome 1.6 or later Notesmith is one purchase for both, so if you have this you have that. Evernote is a trademark of Evernote Corporation. Apple Notes is a trademark of Apple Inc. Notesmith is not affiliated with or endorsed by either. ## Is Notesmith safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Notesmith. ## Is Notesmith legit? Notesmith appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Notesmith is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-13 selecting text in a long note no longer makes the page jump around. • fixed: dictating right after a multi-line code block could crash Notesmith, or land your edit in the wrong paragraph • fixed: deleting a line inside a paragraph that has line breaks in it could bring the line back after you deleted it • Add Link asks for the address when there isn't one to use, so the link you make is one you can click. it can also link to a note with that name • fixed: playing a recording could freeze the app • cutting or copying a whole line no longer leaves an empty line in what you paste ### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-09 pictures now show here after they sync from your Mac, as a small preview. the full-size original stays on your Mac. pictures saved as SVG still show as missing for now. • Suggest Citations from Bibliome is now here too, not just on the Mac • a quote captured in Bibliome can create a new note directly on your phone, with the citation already in place • smarter links: a duplicate note title no longer reaches the wrong note, and a link to a deleted note stops pretending to work • copy and paste keeps [[links]] intact, and paste back is exact; deleting a link's text now deletes the link too • VoiceOver rotor actions for pin, move to trash, rename and more, and calmer animation with Reduce Motion on • the iPhone Duo gets two panes instead of three when it is folded flat • sync recovers cleanly after a damaged library instead of starting over • Add Link no longer asks for permission to paste • fixed: on iPad, typing right after picking another note could crash, or write into the note you just left • fixed: a crash while typing when the screen and the saved note fell out of step ### 1.0 — 2026-09-24 No release notes. ## More apps by Joshua Langberg - [Figmint](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/figmint/id6778935243) - [Bibliome](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bibliome/id6782099149) - [More Garlic](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/more-garlic/id6782392934) - [Groove Number](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/groove-number/id6786836303) - [Major Arcana Meals](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/major-arcana-meals/id6789919644) All apps by Joshua Langberg: https://appshunter.io/developer/6778935245 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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