# Silt: Writing — Writing, close to your reading

> Writing, close to your reading (iPhone/iPad app by Santiago Sonzini.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/silt-writing/id6782198209 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Santiago Sonzini](https://appshunter.io/developer/6782198242)
- Category: Books, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-24
- Data updated: 2026-07-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/silt-writing/id6782198209/reviews.md

## What is Silt?

Silt is a calm place to think on the page.

It's built for two kinds of writing — essays and journaling — and for the
reading that feeds them. Choose your intent and the room changes to suit it:
an open canvas for an essay, a quiet daily page for a journal, a focused
reader for a book.

Most writing apps forget what you've read. Silt doesn't. As you write, it
brings the relevant lines from your reading alongside the paragraph you're
working on — so the right quote or idea is there when you reach for it.

WRITE WITH INTENTION
• Start from a prompt — "What are you here to think about?" — not a blank page.
• Separate modes for drafting and revising: get the words down first, shape them later.
• Every paragraph keeps its own version history. Try a line three ways and never lose the one you liked.
• Set a gentle deadline and a daily writing reminder.

A LIVING READING CORPUS
• Bring in highlights from Kindle and Obsidian, or highlight as you read inside Silt.
• While you write, Silt surfaces the passages that match what you're saying, ranked by relevance.
• Drop any highlight straight into your draft as a quote.

READ INSIDE THE APP
• Open your own PDFs and EPUBs in a clean, distraction-free reader.
• Your books stay on your device.
• Highlights you make flow back into your corpus, ready to resurface later.

ONE LIBRARY, EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE
• Notes, journal entries, highlights, and books — organized and searchable.
• Light and dark, with accent colors you can tune to your taste.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Your writing is end-to-end encrypted (AES-GCM-256). Only you hold the key.
• Local-first: the app works fully offline, with no account required.
• Optional sync keeps your work in step across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Silt runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — one app, all your devices.

Writing settles like sediment, layer on layer, until something solid forms.
Silt is where it settles.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-06-24

No release notes.

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