PurePaper vs smalltype

PurePaper is a high-end document scanning tool for people who value aesthetics and efficiency. A tool should stay out of the way—it shouldn’t track you, require a subscription, or upload your private documents to someone else’s server. [CORE FEATURES] • The “Flatbed Look”: Adaptive shadow removal clears uneven lighting and restores a clean white background. • Precision warping: System document edge detection and perspective correction straighten skewed photos into rectangular pages. • Text sharpening: Boosts contrast for handwriting, stamps, and print. • Four core modes: Magic Color, Flatbed Look, B&W Document, and Original Photo. • On-device OCR & full-text search: Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), English, Japanese, German; search titles and page content from Home. • Searchable PDF: Optional invisible text layer. Enabled by default for PDF export; disable in Export for image-only PDFs. • Sign, annotate & redact: PencilKit markup; redact sensitive text automatically or by hand. • Tags & merge: Colored tags; merge multiple documents into one multi-page file. • App Lock: On by default. Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode is required on launch and when returning from the background. To turn it off: Settings → App Lock → disable “Require Face ID / Passcode”. [OPTIONAL — OFF BY DEFAULT] • Backup Destination: Settings → Backup Destination. Default is Local Only. Switch to iCloud Drive or your own WebDAV server to back up exports. [WHY PUREPAPER?] • Ultra-minimal native UI—no clutter, just scanning. • Anti-subscription: one-time purchase, lifetime ownership. • Native Swift stack for fast launch and processing.

Short notes, many times a day, saved as plain .md files in real folders. Open the same folder on your Mac in VS Code, Vim, or any editor. Calm, minimal, and ready for iPhone Duo. smalltype is for your notes. The small ones, the quick ones, the big ones, the unpolished ones. It's a fast, quiet place to type. ## Start No tutorial, no setup screen. Tap New Note and start typing. Leave one empty and it quietly disappears, so you never end up with a pile of blank untitled notes. That's the whole app. ## Yours Every note is a real .md file, sitting right there in the Files app. You can open it, copy it, or back it up yourself, anytime. Delete one and it still goes to Recently Deleted, same as any other file: nothing's gone for good. ## Sync or Don't Keep notes in iCloud Drive to have them on every device. Or keep them On My iPhone, fully local, never leaving your device. Either way, you can switch anytime. ## Visible Markdown Markdown markers stay gently visible as you type. What you see is exactly what's in the file. A bar above the keyboard types the markers for you, with undo and redo a tap away. ## Organize Folders, search, and quick note-making, all from one screen. Nothing to set up first. Put "daily" in a folder's name and new notes inside it get today's date as their name. ## No Catch No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No account, ever. Markdown notes. Yours to keep.