SnapNote vs Recto MD

Local AI. Zero cloud AI API calls. Zero subscription fees. Unlimited use. SnapNote is a document-to-note app that performs text recognition and content organization on your device. Download and activate a local model, then capture or import pages to turn images into structured, editable, searchable, and exportable notes. No account required. No per-scan or processing fees. Documents, images, and notes are processed and stored on your device and are not uploaded to SnapNote's processing servers. Capture once. Get a useful note. - Scan documents with your camera or import photos. - Process multiple pages, then reorder, crop, rotate, and enhance each page. - Recognize text and organize content with on-device AI. - Structure titles, paragraphs, fields, and tables using document types and templates. More than OCR SnapNote does more than turn an image into plain text. It keeps the original images and recognized text alongside an organized result that is easier to read and reuse. You can compare the source, edit the content, and file the note whenever you need. Make information easy to find again - Organize notes with tags and document types. - Search saved content to quickly locate information. - Open, edit, or reorganize previous notes. - Turn scattered document photos into a personal knowledge library. Works with the documents you already use Use SnapNote for meeting whiteboards, class notes, study materials, receipts, tables, contracts, checklists, and other paper documents. Choose a built-in template for common content or create a custom template that matches your own structure. Flexible exports Export organized content as Markdown, plain text, CSV, XLSX, or PDF for further editing, archiving, or sharing. Local processing. Ongoing use. Once the model is downloaded, core recognition and organization run on your device. There are no cloud AI API quotas or monthly subscription fees, so you can use SnapNote whenever you need it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Recto MD opens a Markdown file and gets out of the way. Open one from Files, Mail or Safari with Open in Recto MD, or share it in from any app. On iPadOS and iOS 26, Files > Get Info > Always Open With makes it the default. Reading comes first: pick a file and it is on screen, typeset and ready, nothing to configure. When you want to change something, Edit mode puts the source next to the live preview - side by side on iPad, a Source/Preview switch on iPhone - and Save is explicit, so nothing is written until you ask for it. TYPOGRAPHY FIRST The reading column, the leading and the vertical rhythm are the product. Pinch to zoom the whole page from 50% to 300% - text, measure and margins scale together, the way a browser's page zoom does - the column measure also has three widths, and the page is laid out so a long document stays comfortable rather than merely legible. RENDERS WHAT YOUR DOCUMENTS ACTUALLY CONTAIN - CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks, footnotes - GitHub-style alerts: NOTE, TIP, IMPORTANT, WARNING, CAUTION - Mermaid diagrams, loaded only when a document has one - Mathematics and chemistry, typeset by KaTeX: inline and display LaTeX, and mhchem chemical equations. The delimiters are narrow on purpose, so a price written as $5 stays a price - Syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks, with a copy button - Wide tables scroll inside the reading column, so the page itself never scrolls sideways EDITING, WHEN YOU WANT IT Edit mode puts a source pane beside the live preview - side by side on iPad, a Source/Preview switch on iPhone. Save is explicit, and nothing autosaves in the background. Export the document as a PDF whenever you want a copy to share. FIND YOUR WAY AROUND An outline is generated from the document's headings: a sheet on iPhone, a sidebar on iPad that also holds your recent documents. Search inside a document with a live match count and step through the matches. Recents remembers where you stopped reading and puts you back there. IT UPDATES WHILE YOU READ Change the file somewhere else and the document updates in place - same scroll position, no flash, no reload button to hunt for. If you have unsaved edits, the app stops and asks instead of choosing for you. Turn auto-reload off and you get a "File changed" tap target instead. A THEME EDITOR, NOT A THEME PICKER Duplicate a built-in theme or start from nothing, and tune it in six groups: text (font, scale, line height, spacing, indent, justification); headings (font, weight, an accent color, rules, and a size for each of the six levels); layout (column width by characters, points or percent, a max width, custom margins, a page-card look); sidebar (font size and step per level, row height, indent, background and accent mix); blocks (code font and size, table density and zebra striping, blockquote style, the code syntax palette); and color, down to the selection highlight. Import or export any theme as JSON. OFFLINE, AND PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION The app makes no network requests at all. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, nothing collected. Your documents are files on your device or in your iCloud Drive, and that is where they stay. BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM Dynamic Type through to the accessibility sizes, VoiceOver reading real document structure, Increase Contrast, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are all honoured. With a hardware keyboard, every navigation shortcut is independently rebindable - pick the key, choose Command, Option or Shift, and the app flags a conflict before you save one - and Open, Find, Find Next, Reload, the zoom commands and Settings are all one keystroke away, listed in the Command-hold sheet. The interface is available in twelve languages, with a System option and a picker for the one you want.