Notenda vs Skein Notes

Notenda is your private notebook — for everything you don't put anywhere else. Your notes stay on your device. No account to create, no internet connection needed, no ads: open the app, start writing, that's it. Not just another notes app, and not a classic diary either: Notenda is a personal logbook for what actually matters to you, day after day. DOZENS OF USES - Food diary and meal tracking - Habit, sleep and mood tracking - Health log, symptom and treatment tracking - Care log for an elderly parent, a relative or a child - Reminders and long-running to-dos - Trip planning and travel journal - Pet health and care log - Workouts and fitness goals - Home renovation, project and paperwork log - Reading log, recipes, gift ideas and random thoughts - Job hunting, interviews and career notes - Diary and everyday memories PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes never leave your phone. No account, no profiling, no data reselling, no ads. Notenda works fully offline: what you write goes nowhere. WRITE IN ONE MOVE Open the app and write: no dialog, no decision to make before the first letter. Notenda picks the last category you used in that notebook, and you can fix it right after. Nothing to file away later, no inbox piling up — that is the whole anti mental-load principle behind the app. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY - Create as many themed notebooks as you need (travel, health, pets, fitness, projects...) - Sort memos into customizable categories (icon, color) - Reuse templates to go faster - Get writing prompts when you need them - Date each memo when the event happened, even long afterwards A COMPLETE NOTEBOOK - Rich text: bold, italic, bullet lists and checkboxes - Photos taken on the spot or picked from your gallery - File attachments: PDFs, prescriptions, invoices, receipts, records - Built-in document scanner: your phone becomes a scanner - Text recognition from photos: an image becomes editable text - Voice dictation, through your phone keyboard - Instant search across all your notes - Instant capture from the native iOS and Android share sheet - Light or dark theme, interface available in 27 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Norwegian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Ukrainian, Russian) REMINDERS AT THE RIGHT TIME Set a reminder on a memo and let Notenda notify you when the day comes: a check-up to book, a prescription to renew, a follow-up not to forget. You can hide the memo content in the notification, so nothing shows on a locked screen. NO NOISE, NO PRESSURE No feed, no likes, no streaks to keep alive, no notification begging you to come back. Notenda records what you write and gives it back to you, in the order you need it. Nothing is interpreted, scored or analysed: your notes are yours to read. NOTES THAT DELETE THEMSELVES Give a memo an expiry date: it disappears on its own, for good, on the date you picked. Handy for a temporary code, a passing detail, or anything you don't want to keep forever. CUSTOM PDF EXPORT — MADE FOR SHARING Generate a PDF for the exact period you choose, filtering by only the categories you need. Pick the layout that fits: one column, three columns over three days, or seven columns over seven days. Perfect for handing a food diary, a symptom log, or a health record to your doctor, a family member, or a professional — without retyping anything. BACKUP AND SWITCHING PHONES Export your entire notebook as a single archive — notes and attachments included — and restore it on a new device from the very first launch. Your data stays yours, readable and recoverable outside the app. Notenda is your private space to write down everything — the next-generation diary, built for real life. Download Notenda and start your private notebook today.

Skein is a notes app for people who want to keep their own files. Your vault is a folder of plain Markdown on your device or in iCloud Drive. Skein reads and writes those files directly — the same folder you open in Skein for Mac, or in any other editor. Nothing is locked in a database, and there is no service in the middle. Write it down before you lose it The app opens on a capture field. Type the thought and send it; the first line becomes the note's title and Skein files it where you told it to. No dialog, no folder picker, no naming a file before you have written anything. Find it again Search matches titles the moment you start typing and searches inside every note once the index is ready, ranked, with the matching lines and their line numbers — tap one and land on it. The Vault filters by name, by #tag or by folder in one field, and tags are real: tap one anywhere in the app to see everything carrying it. Real Markdown, properly Headings, lists, task lists, tables, footnotes, code blocks, callouts, ==highlights== and [[wikilinks]] — read cleanly and edited as text. A keyboard bar puts the things you actually reach for above the keys, including arrows that move by character and by word, and you can choose which of them appear. Type / for a command, #for a tag it already knows. Canvas Open a JSON Canvas board, move cards, connect them, colour them and write on them. The same file, the same format Obsidian writes, so a board made on the Mac opens here and back again. It keeps your writing safe Skein keeps earlier versions of a note as you edit, so you can go back to what you wrote this morning. When the same note has been changed in two places, Skein keeps both and asks — it never picks a winner quietly. Also Share text from any app straight into your vault. Four themes, including one for reading at night. Dynamic Type throughout, and full VoiceOver support. Skein does not have an account, a subscription for the basics, a server, or telemetry. Your notes never leave your device except through iCloud Drive, which is yours. Skein for Mac is a separate app on the same purchase.