Vanishing Notes vs Rune Secure Notes

Some notes don't need to live forever. The hotel Wi-Fi password. Your table number. The delivery driver's phone number. The gate code for a place you're visiting once. Where you parked—again. These aren't memories. They're temporary. So why do they clutter your notes app forever? Vanishing Notes is a notepad for temporary notes. Write something down and it deletes itself automatically—after 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days, or any custom time from 1 to 24 hours. You choose. No manual cleanup. No scrolling past outdated notes. Just what you need, right now. SIMPLE BY DESIGN • Tap to write. Swipe to delete. That's it. • Clean, minimal interface with a paper-and-ink look • See at a glance how much time each note has left • Edit notes right in the list—no extra screens • Copy any note with one tap • Dark mode that's easy on your eyes WORKS EVERYWHERE • Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Home Screen widgets show your notes at a glance • Siri & Shortcuts: create, find, and hear your notes by voice • Spotlight search finds your notes from anywhere • Keyboard shortcuts on Mac and iPad • Available in 20 languages NOTHING IS TRULY GONE Changed your mind? Deleted notes stay in Trash for 30 days. Restore anything with one tap. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. No account, no sign-up, no ads. TRY IT FREE Vanishing Notes includes a 7-day free trial. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited notes forever. No subscriptions. Stop letting temporary notes become permanent clutter.

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.