Atelier Libretto vs Noter

Word processing for your Word documents, Markdown, and source code. Libretto opens Word documents (.docx and .docm), Markdown, plain text, and source code, and saves them back in the format they came from. Write, review, and export on iPhone and iPad. Documents - Open and save .docx, .docm, Markdown, plain text, and source code files in place - Export as .docx or PDF - Source code is set in a code font and colored by its syntax - Find text, and undo or redo any change - Read on a phone-sized reflow of the page, with text set at your Dynamic Type size Text and Layout - Styles, and list styles with bullets, numbers, and outlines - Tables, with header rows that repeat at the top of each page they run across - Pictures, symbols, and special characters - Sections, headers, and footers, with page numbers and other fields - Cross-references to headings and bookmarks, and a table of contents - Office Math equations, written and edited on one line - Footnotes and endnotes, numbered as they appear in the text - Links Review - Record tracked changes, step through them, and accept or reject them one at a time or all at once - Comments in threads, with replies and resolving

Share a link, some text, a photo or a PDF to Noter and it becomes a note. The share sheet saves it straight away, without opening the app, and the note shows up on your other devices. A note with a link gets a preview card with the page's title, image and description. GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, Hacker News and X links also get a detail line, like stars, points, comments or the channel. If you add an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini, Noter writes a title, a short summary and tags for each note you share. The key stays in your keychain and the request goes from your phone straight to that provider. Edit the title or body yourself and Noter leaves your text alone. The rest is a plain notes app: 1. Pinned notes on top, then the most recent. 2. Search over titles, bodies, tags and link previews. 3. Tags that suggest the ones you already use, each with its own color. 4. Pin, archive, share or delete from the note's menu. A delete can be undone for six seconds, or by shaking the phone. 5. Home and lock screen widgets for pinned notes, recent notes, or a new note. Notes sync through your private iCloud database. Noter has no account, no analytics and no server of mine in the middle. Noter for Mac is free and open source at github.com/hex/Noter. It keeps your notes as a row of dots on the edge of the screen, and has a command line and an MCP server, so coding agents can read and write notes too.