Nestwell vs ZenNotes

Eight tools for a more productive life. One calm, private app. Nothing leaves your device. Your whole life doesn't belong scattered across a dozen apps, each one wanting your email, your data, and another monthly fee. Nestwell brings your planner, wallet, notes, diary, password vault, PDF reader, scanner, and reminders into a single beautifully calm home — every word, number, and secret stored locally on your device, with your vault locked behind a key only you hold. No accounts to create. No profiles to build. WHAT'S INSIDE Planner — Tasks, events and habits in one clear view. Build streaks and watch your consistency grow on a calm monthly calendar. Wallet — Track income, expenses, budgets and savings in any currency on earth, with a built-in calculator so the numbers always add up. Vault — Keep passwords, logins, secure notes and IDs behind a passphrase only you know. Zero-knowledge encryption means no one else can look inside. Notes — A real editor with rich text, tables, checklists, a freehand pen and file attachments — built for depth, not just quick capture. Diary — Write day by day in a warm, paper-style journal made for your eyes only, and keep your streak alive. Reader & Scanner — Open your PDFs in a built-in reader, and turn paper into clean digital documents in seconds. Reminders — Tie a reminder to a note, a diary entry, a vault item, or a plan. Eight tools that truly work as one. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything you create stays on your device — nothing is transmitted anywhere unless you choose to. When you choose to back up, every file is encrypted with a passphrase only you know before it ever leaves your phone, so even your backups are yours alone. Send them to iCloud or Google Drive, keep them on local storage, or stay completely device-only. Your vault goes even further — protected in a way that means no one, not even us, could ever look inside. That's Nestwell's promise. MAKE IT YOURS Three premium themes: Nestwell (dark), Paper (light), and Midnight (OLED black), paired with eight accent colors, from jewel tones to quiet neutrals. Available in 21 languages, so it feels like home in yours too. Beautiful on iPhone and iPad. Stop juggling apps. Stop handing over your data. Your private, productive life finally in one calm place. Download Nestwell and make it yours.

ZenNotes is a local-first markdown notes app for writing, organizing, and connecting ideas without giving up ownership of your files. YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES Every note is a plain .md file in a vault you control. Start with storage on your iPhone or iPad, use iCloud Drive, or open a folder through the system document picker. Local and iCloud vaults work without an account. ZENNOTES CLOUD Connect an optional ZenNotes Cloud plan to: • Sync a vault across ZenNotes desktop and mobile • Sync notes and attachments • Create manual and automatic daily backups • Restore a full vault or a single note from a backup • Publish notes to the web and manage their public links Cloud never replaces the free local-first workflow. Use it only when you want hosted sync, backup, or publishing. WRITE IN MARKDOWN Use a focused editor with headings, lists, tasks, tables, code, links, wikilinks, tags, callouts, footnotes, and frontmatter. A mobile formatting bar keeps common actions close to the keyboard, and a pinch resizes the text to your eyes. RICH, OFFLINE PREVIEW Render KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, JSXGraph, function plots, tables, callouts, and more directly on your device. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Pin your go-to notes and folders to the top, swipe rows to act on them, create and rename nested folders, browse tags, search the full vault, manage tasks, create periodic notes, and work with table databases stored as CSV. CAPTURE QUICKLY Create a quick note from the app or send text and links to ZenNotes from the iOS share sheet. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Start a note, open a recent one, or check today's tasks without opening the app. New Note also lives on the Lock Screen, and the widgets wear your theme. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT ZenNotes has no advertising or tracking. Local and iCloud notes stay in the storage you choose. When you enable ZenNotes Cloud, the account identity, connected-device information, and vault content needed for the Cloud features you use are sent to the ZenNotes service. Payment details are handled by Stripe. ZenNotes is open source. Your vault remains useful outside the app because it is made of ordinary files.