OV Notes vs Keepout

A calm, minimal place to write in plain Markdown, plan your days, and let a private AI Copilot do the busywork on the notes you already wrote. OV Notes keeps everything simple and yours. No account, no sign-up, no ads. Just open it and write, on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write in Markdown • Plain Markdown that stays simple, readable files you actually own • A clean, focused editor that stays out of your way • Light and Dark themes that follow your system automatically Calendar and to-dos • A monthly calendar greets you on the home screen • Add to-dos to any date and check them off • See today's tasks at a glance AI Copilot for your own notes • Summarize a long note in seconds • Draft a meeting-note outline to start from • Organize today's to-dos so nothing slips • Ask "what's on my schedule this week?" and get a clear answer • It only ever works on your own notes, never anyone else's Stay organized • Folders and a nested file-tree vault keep everything in its place • An "All notes" list puts every note one tap away, even as it grows Widgets that keep up • Home-screen and Lock-screen widgets show your to-dos without opening the app Sync across your devices • iCloud sync keeps notes current on iPhone, iPad, and the OV Mac app • It uses your own iCloud, so your notes stay private to you Private by design • Local-first: your notes live on your device and in your own iCloud • No account or sign-up needed • No ads, no tracking, and nothing collected by us Free to use, and fully bilingual in Korean and English. Write a little, plan a little, and keep it all in one quiet place that's truly yours.

Keepout is a private notes app for iPhone and iPad. Your writing stays on your device, encrypted at rest, with local tools for connecting and understanding ideas. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • AES-256-GCM encryption protects every note at rest. • Your vault key stays in this device's non-synchronizing Keychain. • Opaque filenames keep note titles and links out of the file system. • There is no account, cloud sync, analytics, remote prompt processing, or plaintext search index. CONNECTED KNOWLEDGE • Link notes with familiar double-bracket wiki links. • Follow backlinks and suggested related notes. • Explore an interactive knowledge graph built with Apple's local sentence embeddings. • Search decrypted notes in memory while the vault is unlocked. LOCAL AI • Ask questions, summarize a note, and suggest connections without sending note text to a server. • Use Apple Foundation Models on supported devices. • Choose the optional MLX engine for local inference. Its compact model downloads once on first use; inference then stays on your device. FOCUSED WRITING • Open the transient action bar from the toolbar or with Command-K on a hardware keyboard. • Type / in the editor for headings, lists, tasks, quotes, code blocks, dividers, and links. • Switch to a centered typewriter view that hides the side columns and softly fades the page edges. • Navigate with touch or hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad. • Markdown syntax and link destinations stay visually quiet until the caret enters them. Keepout stores each encrypted note in a .md file so your vault remains a collection of Markdown documents without exposing their contents at rest.