# Owly: Smart Notes & Voice — Dictate, record & remind > Dictate, record & remind (iPhone/iPad app by Manuel Re.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/owly-smart-notes-and-voice/id6807171642 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Manuel Re](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807171644) - Category: Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 7 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-24 - Data updated: 2026-10-21 ## What is Owly? Owly keeps your notes as plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. Speak, type, sketch or record, and Owly writes it down, files it and reminds you. There is no account and nothing to sign in to. CAPTURE IN A SECOND • Jot a thought on the home screen and press Return. It is saved without opening a note • Start a note, dictation or a recording from Control Center, the Lock Screen, a Home Screen widget, Siri or Shortcuts • "Add a note to Owly" with Siri saves it without opening the app • Share text, links, pictures and files to Owly from any app • Find your notes from the Home Screen search SPEAK INSTEAD OF TYPE • Dictate into any note, with pauses, until you tap stop • Format as you speak: say "bold this" or "quote this" • Record a meeting into a note, with the moments you mark, and pause it when something is off the record REMEMBER • Put a reminder on any note, and repeat it daily, on weekdays, weekly, monthly or yearly • Mark it done in the app, or swipe it from Coming up • See what is coming up, and what you have not filed yet WRITE AND ORGANISE • Markdown styled as you type: headings, bold, lists, quotes and links • Folders you name, holding ordinary .md files • Search by title or by what is inside a note • Add photos to a note ON IPAD • Your notes in a list beside the one you are writing • Draw straight into a note with Apple Pencil or a finger • Turn handwriting into typed text, recognised on the iPad ON IPHONE DUO • Open the phone and Owly reads like a book: your notes on one page, the note on the other ON APPLE WATCH • Tap the microphone and speak. A voice note of up to 12 seconds reaches your notes, and your iPhone writes down the words • Start, mark and stop a meeting your iPhone records • Needs an iPhone with Owly, paired with the watch AI, ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Owly works fully without AI. If you want help, Owly can suggest a title, suggest where notes belong, tidy your dictation and answer questions from your notes. On a device with Apple Intelligence that runs on the device itself. You can instead use a cloud AI provider with your own API key: nothing is sent until you agree, and requests go straight from your device to that provider under your own account. Owly sells nothing and takes no cut. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. Company31 has no server in Owly and never sees your notes. ## Is Owly safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Owly. ## Is Owly legit? Owly: Smart Notes & Voice appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Owly is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-18 • Jot a note straight from the home screen, or start one from Control Center, the Lock Screen, a widget, Siri or Shortcuts • Share to Owly from any app, and find your notes in Spotlight • Record a meeting from your Apple Watch or any note, and pause, mark or stop it from the Lock Screen • Dictation keeps everything you say until you tap stop, pauses included • Mark reminders done right in the app • A new round record button on Apple Watch • Bug fixes and a cleaner design ### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-10 Now ready for iPhone Duo. Open the phone and Owly lays out like a book: your notes on one page, the note you are writing on the other, and the divider sitting on the fold. Hide the list and that page shows the note's own headings instead, so nothing is ever read across the crease. Folded, it is the Owly you know. Also in this version: the end of every list now clears the buttons that float above it; a note whose first line repeats its own name shows that name once, and the heading comes back when you put the cursor on it; the iCloud invitation is one quiet line rather than a banner; the Folders row wears a folder; and Ask Owly takes the platform's own mark. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-24 No release notes. ## More apps by Manuel Re - [Math Citizen](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/math-citizen/id6815316007) - [Grinly](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grinly/id6817874912) All apps by Manuel Re: https://appshunter.io/developer/6807171644 ## Related topics [owly](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/owly) --- *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 2026-10-21.*