# Pear Notes - Private AI & Sync — Offline encrypted notebook > Offline encrypted notebook (iPhone/iPad app by Amresh Venkatesan Suresh.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pear-notes-private-ai-and-sync/id6803172019 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Amresh Venkatesan Suresh](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803172021) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.6 · 161 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-15 - Data updated: 2026-10-29 ## What is Pear Notes? Pear Notes is a private, offline-first notebook. Your notes are encrypted on your device and sync directly between your own devices — no cloud account, no server holding your data, nothing to leak. On-device AI handles voice typing, transcripts, translation and summaries without sending a single word off your phone. PRIVATE AI THAT RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE Every AI feature is optional, off until you turn it on, and runs entirely on your hardware. Each one downloads its model once and then works offline, in airplane mode, forever. • Voice typing — speak and your words appear in the note as you talk. • Transcribe recordings — turn a voice memo into text. • Extract text — copy text out of photos, scans and PDFs. • Describe images — get a caption for a photo. • Ask, write and summarize — ask a question about a note, summarize it, pull out key points, suggest a title, or fix, shorten and rewrite selected text. • Translate — 48 languages, to and from English, each downloaded on demand. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no API key, no usage limits. ZERO-SERVER PEER-TO-PEER SYNC Sync your notebook across phone, tablet and computer without your data ever resting on a third-party server. Pear Notes uses a decentralised multi-device sync engine that merges changes locally. There is no central database and no coordinator — the notes remain completely yours. CRYPTOGRAPHIC DEVICE PAIRING Link a new device with a blind pairing handshake that never exposes your identity to onlookers. Scan the pairing QR code, confirm the matching identity keys, and the devices hold a permanent encrypted channel. Invites expire automatically. LOCKED NOTES Lock any note behind Face ID, Touch ID or a password you choose. Locked notes stay locked on every paired device, are hidden from screenshots and the app switcher, and the password is never stored — only a verifier derived from it. WRITE, SCAN AND RECORD • A document scanner that turns pages into a single PDF. • A voice recorder with playback, embedded straight into the note. • Photos, videos, PDFs and files attached inline, with previews. • Share from any other app straight into a note. • Folders, pinned notes, search, and a Recently Deleted that holds notes for 30 days. • Note history showing what each device changed, with the ability to recover a discarded edit. • Elegant typography (Lora, Inter, Outfit, Newsreader, IBM Plex Mono), light and dark themes, and adjustable text size. ENCRYPTED BACKUPS YOU CONTROL Export the whole vault into one secured and encrypted .pnbk file with a password only you know. The password is never stored or transmitted and there is no reset — so you can keep the backup anywhere, and nobody, including us, can open it without you. PERMISSIONS • Microphone — voice notes and voice typing. Audio never leaves the device. • Camera — document scanning, photos, and scanning pairing QR codes. • Photos — attaching images you pick, and saving images you export. • Face ID / Touch ID — unlocking locked notes. ## Is Pear Notes safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Pear Notes. ## Is Pear Notes legit? Pear Notes - Private AI & Sync has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pear Notes is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-27 Pear Notes 1.1.1 makes locked notes and device linking more secure. • Locked notes are now encrypted with your lock password, including their attachments on top of existing vault encryption. Files you add to a locked note are encrypted right away. • Locked notes now need a lock password. If your password is an older style, you'll be asked once to choose a new one. • Unlock with Face ID or Touch ID, and the app shows which one it will use. • Device linking shows a pairing code to confirm on both devices, and asks you to update devices running an older version. • Pear Notes warns you before restoring a backup or combining vaults when some devices are out of date. • New Locked view: every locked note in one place. • Joining another vault is easier to find: Settings › Devices has a Join another vault section, and the invite field has a paste button. • Each notes list has one options menu with Select notes and Settings, plus Rename and Delete for your own folders. • Report a problem now opens our contact page, including from Ask answers. • Fixes to reminders and Upcoming, the editor keyboard and caret, search, the change password flow, and checkboxes in dark mode. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-26 Pear Notes 1.1 brings improvements to on-device AI and supports multiple vault. • Ask your notes: ask a question and get an answer drawn from your own notes, with links to where it came from. • Search by meaning: find notes even when you don't remember the exact words, and see related notes and possible duplicates. • Full-text search across every note, plus find in note. • Extract text from photos and scans, and describe images. • Recap: a weekly digest of what you worked on. • Upcoming: dates, reminders and birthdays pulled from your notes, with reminder notifications. • Attachments: every file and image across your notes in one place. • Multiple vaults: keep separate vaults, or join someone else's. • Simpler device linking: add a device from Devices, and the new device chooses whether to keep its notes separate or combine them. • Background sync tips when your settings stop sync from keeping up. • Help and FAQs inside the app. • Faster startup and note list, plus many fixes to sync, backup, storage and the editor. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-15 No release notes. ## Related topics [notes free encrypted](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/notes-free-encrypted) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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