Fast Idea Book vs Rune Secure Notes

A frictionless capture pad for the ideas you would otherwise lose. If you have ever woken at 3 AM with a great idea and nothing to write it on, or watched a brilliant phrase evaporate while you opened a heavier app, Fast Idea Book is for you. It is a calm, on-device idea book built around one job, capturing the thought before it fades, and one principle: never make you wait or sign in. WHO IT IS FOR Built for writers, founders, students, designers and anyone whose best ideas arrive at the worst possible moment. Use it for story fragments, product ideas, lecture insights, design sketches, gift lists or the plan you came up with in the shower. CAPTURE IN SECONDS A new idea is one tap away: from the plus button, from the quick actions on the app's start page or from the shortcuts on the app icon. Give it a title, write the details and save with a single tap. Brainstorm freely without folder rituals, then add tags afterward when your brain wants structure. • Record a voice memo for hands-free moments and play it back later • Take a photo with the camera or pick one from your gallery • Attach any file or document from the Files app and open it again from the idea • Format with a Markdown toolbar for bold, italic, strikethrough, headings, quotes, bulleted and numbered lists, tasks, code and dividers, then check the result in the preview ORGANISE WHEN YOU ARE READY • Start with five ready folders: General, Business Ideas, Personal, Projects and Notes • Create your own folders with a colour and an icon • Tag ideas with your own keywords and filter by them later • Bookmark the ideas that matter most and find them in one place • See related ideas that share tags or title words with the one you are reading • Each idea keeps its creation and last update date, and you can share it straight from its detail page FIND ANYTHING FAST Search surfaces the half-remembered note in seconds. Filter by tags, folders or attachment type, and sort by creation date, last change, most viewed or title. NEVER LOSE THE THREAD • Set a reminder for any idea: in an hour, tomorrow, next week or at a custom date and time, with your own message • A daily idea check and a weekly review, if you want them • See every scheduled notification in one list and clear them all with a single tap • Smart reminders that bring back week old ideas you have barely opened, ideas you have not updated in two weeks and bookmarked ideas waiting for attention STAY INSPIRED A daily prompt gives you a fresh question to think about, chosen from 31 creative prompts; tap it to start writing your answer right away. A streak counter celebrates the days you capture something new. The statistics screen shows an activity chart, your ideas this week, your weekly average, your most productive day and most active time, plus how your tags and folders are used, for today, this week, this month, this year or all time. WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets show how many ideas you have and your current streak, and the medium and large sizes add today's prompt; a tap opens the app so you can start writing. Press and hold the app icon to create a new idea, open your last idea or jump to search. EXPORT AND BACKUP Export all ideas, only your bookmarks or a single folder as PDF, Markdown, plain text, RTF or HTML and share the file wherever you like. You can also save a backup file of your ideas, folders and tags and import it again later; imported items are merged with what is already in the app. YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR LOOK The interface ships in 39 languages, and you can switch the app language in Settings. Choose light, dark or system appearance. Designed for iPhone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign in. Your ideas, recordings and attachments are stored on your iPhone, and you decide what leaves the device when you export or share. Delete a single idea or attachment at any time, or clear all data from Settings when you want a fresh start.

Rune is a calm, fast notes app for people who don't want to trust an app with their data. Your notes never leave your device, they are encrypted at rest, and the app makes no network connections at all. There is no account, no cloud, and no sign-up. Privacy by construction, not by promise: • No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, none, not "anonymised", not "aggregated". • No networking code. Put your device in airplane mode and everything still works. If anything ever tries to reach the network, that is a bug. • No account and no server. There is no "we" that could hold your data. Real encryption: • Your passphrase derives a key with Argon2id; notes are sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption. Only ciphertext is ever written to disk. • The passphrase is never stored and is not recoverable. If you forget it, your notes are gone, no reset, no backdoor. That is the price of real privacy. • A wrong passphrase simply cannot decrypt your notes. • Optional Face ID / Touch ID unlock: opt in to unlock with biometrics. Even then the passphrase is never stored — only the in-memory key is cached behind the biometric prompt. What you can do: • Create, edit, search, and organise plain-text notes with a clean, calm layout. • Auto-lock on inactivity and lock-on-background; the app starts locked. • Export an encrypted backup (safe to keep anywhere); plaintext export is gated behind an explicit warning. • Capture voice notes and transcribe them to text entirely on your device with on-device speech recognition — no audio and no transcript ever leaves your phone. Free and open source under the GNU GPLv3. The security-critical code is a small, dependency-light core so it can be read and audited. Releases ship with cryptographic provenance and are built reproducibly, so you can verify the binary was built from this source.