Scrib vs Mhisper

Scrib keeps your notes on your iPhone. There is no account to create, no server to sync with, and no analytics or advertising code in the app. Every note is stored in an encrypted database inside the app's private container, with the key held in the iOS Keychain. WHAT SCRIB DOES • Notes. Write in plain text. Markdown is fine if you use it, and ignored if you don't. • Folders. Group notes into folders, filter the home screen by folder, and search folder names. Folders can be switched off in Settings without deleting anything. • Checklists. Turn any line into a checklist item. Items and plain text can sit in the same note. Tap an item to check it off. • Tap to edit. Tap anywhere in a note and the cursor lands where you tapped. • Colors. 44 note colors, plus 14 text colors that can apply to the title and body or the body only. • Find in note. Search inside a long note; matches are highlighted. • Search. Plain-text search across all notes, on the device. • Import. Bring in .txt and Markdown files, or exports from Google Keep, Simplenote and Evernote (.enex). Checklists in those exports arrive as live checklists. Files are read through the iOS file picker and parsed on the device. • Trash. Deleted notes go to a trash bin and are removed for good after 30 days. Restore any of them before then. • PIN lock. An optional 4 to 6 digit PIN protects the app. Attempts are rate limited. • Vault. A separate, PIN-protected space for notes you want kept apart from the main list. • Share Scrib. One tap in Settings hands a short line and the App Store link to the share sheet. • Languages. English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Simplified Chinese. HOW YOUR DATA IS PROTECTED • Encryption at rest. Every note is written to an AES-256 encrypted database. The key is generated on the device and stored in the iOS Keychain. • Safe upgrades. When the storage format changes, the migration completes fully or not at all, so an interrupted upgrade cannot leave notes half converted. • Key loss detection. If encrypted notes are found without their key, Scrib shows a recovery screen instead of quietly creating a new key. • Save on switch. Pending edits are written to disk the moment you switch apps. WHAT SCRIB DOES NOT DO • It does not make network requests. • It does not ask you to create an account. • It does not sync your notes anywhere. • It does not collect analytics or crash reports. • It does not show ads. • It does not charge for the features listed above. Scrib is built and maintained by one developer, Patrick Colton, also known as Beeswax Pat, a U.S. Army veteran. Questions and requests: beeswaxpat@gmail.com Privacy policy: https://scrib.blog/privacy

Mhisper is a quieter place to think. Your thoughts become bubbles — softly lit, gently drifting on a starfield — alive until you're ready for them. No streaks. No guilt. No inbox pretending to be a mind. Just a calm sky where what you're thinking becomes something you can see. CATCH IT • Type a thought, or speak it — on-device dictation turns your voice into a bubble before the idea fades • Every thought wears a colour. Choose yours, or pick Rainbow and let each new thought arrive in its own • Made for the shower sentence, the walk-home idea, the 2am worry that just needs somewhere to land BUILD IT • Step inside any thought — it opens into a full note built from blocks: clean Markdown or richly styled Fine Text • Add tasks with deadlines and gentle reminders, so remembering isn't your job anymore • Add tasks and check them out from in the note body itself. • Attach images and files where they belong • Connect your notes with one another using threads , and mention other notes in the note body to easily click to navigate between connected notes. SEE IT • Zones gather related thoughts into glowing regions of the sky • Threads draw quiet lines between ideas that belong together • Clusters fold a whole project into a single constellation — step in, step out • Search by word or colour when you need one thought fast SHARE IT • Presenter mode turns a note into a slow, beautiful reading — like you're speaking to the reader, one passage at a time • Share a note with a link, or open a Shared Space where a family, a book club, or a team keeps one sky together KEEP IT • Your notes are your intellectual property. Mhisper never reads, sells, or trains anything on them — they exist for you and no one else • Save your whole canvas as an encrypted memory file only you can open • Your sky follows you between iPhone and the web at mhisper.app For the racing mind that thinks in every direction. For writers watching scenes find their shape. For students turning reading into understanding. For families keeping memories where the grandkids can wander through them. Mhisper is free. Open it, Mhisper a thought, and watch it land.