Bamboo Lite vs Kapy Notes

Bamboo (简帛) is a beautifully restrained, fully offline reader built for one thing: making long-form writing readable again. That tutorial you bookmarked. The newsletter you've been meaning to finish. The lecture notes shared in a group chat. The README that scrolls forever. Open them in the Files app and they show up as broken plain text or mangled code blocks. Bamboo turns them into ink on rice paper — measured line height, restrained type, IDE-grade code highlighting, generous white space. WHO IT'S FOR • Read-later collectors who actually want to read it later • Bloggers and newsletter writers • Students and researchers reading lecture notes & papers • Developers reading READMEs and technical blogs • Anyone who wants to finish a good article without distraction REFINED TYPOGRAPHY • Full GFM: headings, tables, task lists, footnotes, blockquotes • Prism.js highlighting for 20+ languages, one-tap copy • Built-in humanist fonts (LXGW WenKai), live font-size control OPEN FROM ANYWHERE • .md / .html from WeChat, Telegram, Mail, Files — tap "Open with..." → done • Or open files directly from the Files app • Share Extension brings Bamboo into every share sheet ONE PIECE, MANY USES • Export as a long image — share to social with watermark • Export as PDF with auto-generated outline • Three curated themes: White Silk, Dark Bamboo, Cyan Reed ON YOUR DESK • Read documents auto-land on the "Bookshelf" • Star to keep favorites within reach • "Timeline" walks back through your reading journey PURE PRIVACY • No accounts. No cache. No cloud servers. • 100% local parsing & rendering, fully offline • No analytics SDK, no ads, no tracking For the written word — Bamboo.

Kapy Notes is a fast, private notebook with a live calculator built into every line. Write a thought, type a calculation, and see the result right beside it. There is no mode switching, formula setup, or separate calculator required. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK • Notes, checklists, journals, meeting notes, and everyday scratch work • Budgets, splits, percentages, estimates, and running totals • Currency, unit, temperature, and time conversions • Markdown-style headings, emphasis, lists, tables, links, images, videos, and voice notes • Search, archive, protected hidden notes, export, and import VOICE NOTES YOUR WAY Record without an account. Choose local transcription to keep audio on your device, or sign in and deliberately enable cloud transcription. Local transcription and local summaries are unlimited. Cloud usage is shown clearly in Settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • Notes stay on your device unless you turn on sync • Sync is end-to-end encrypted; we cannot read your notes • Shared notes are encrypted for the people you share them with, by email or by link • Block and report controls are built into sharing • No ads, advertising identifiers, or cross-app tracking • Close your account from inside the app whenever you like • Works offline for notes and calculations FOREVER FREE Use every writing and calculation tool with up to five editable notes, 100 MB of storage, 15 minutes of cloud transcription each month, and 100 cloud summaries or rewrites each month. On-device transcription and summaries do not use those allowances. If you reach a limit, nothing is deleted and extra notes remain readable and exportable. PRO LIFETIME Every account begins with a 14-day Pro trial. No card is required and nothing renews. Pro Lifetime is one purchase, not a subscription. It unlocks unlimited notes, encrypted sync and sharing, 1 GB of storage, 120 cloud transcription minutes each month, and 1,000 cloud summaries or rewrites each month. Pro members can optionally buy repeatable 5 GB storage and 1,000-minute transcription packs through the App Store. Currency exchange rates come from Frankfurter, with ExchangeRate-API as a fallback.