Antinote for iPhone and iPad

Everything the iPhone and iPad app does, one page per topic. Notes sync with the Mac app through iCloud, but the two apps are built differently — on iOS everything starts at the orb and the quickbar above the keyboard. The Mac manual covers the desktop app.

Basics

Getting started Antinote on iPhone and iPad is a stack of notes: the newest is on top, swipe right for older ones, swipe left past the newest to start a new one, and everything else starts at the Orb at the bottom of the screen. Settings has a search field that finds any setting by name or description.Navigation Swipe left and right to move through the note stack, pull past the top or bottom for a new note or the latest one, and reorder the stack from Search.The Orb The Orb at the bottom of the screen opens the menu: Search, Latest, actions on this note (Share, Attach, Sketch, Lock, Read-Only, Archive, Read aloud, Widget, Delete) and new notes from the clipboard, an image, the camera or audio.Slotted notes Nine permanent notes named after planets that never auto-delete. Switch to them from the Orb or a gesture, jump between them on the planet bar, and on iPad show them beside your ephemeral notes in split view.Gestures Pull past the top or bottom, two-finger tap and swipe on the note, swipe or hold the Orb — each gesture runs an action you choose in Settings › Gestures. On iPad, the pointer and Apple Pencil join in.The Quickbar The bar above the keyboard holds the buttons you choose. Add, reorder and remove them, keep several quickbars, and let the Math and Lists bars switch in automatically.Quickbar buttons What each Quickbar button does: special keyboards, text capture and dictation, AI transforms, list operations, formatting, quick access, and the text snippets and quick commands you make yourself.

Writing

Special keyboards Antinote swaps the keyboard for the job: a math keyboard with ans, units and variables, a format keyboard, a keywords keyboard, a timer keyboard and a selection wheel.Checkboxes, bullets and numbers Start a line with - [ ], - or 1. and Antinote draws the list. Tap to check, press and hold to reorder, and decide what happens to checked items.Select mode Select mode picks whole lines with a tap or a drag, then copies, cuts, deletes, moves, indents, groups or shuffles them all at once, with its own undo.Markdown and formatting Headers, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, highlight, inline code and code blocks render in place. Apply them from the Quickbar or Format keyboard, and clean text on copy and paste.Links URLs collapse to +domain+ with the full address kept underneath. Open, expand or shrink a link from the bar that appears when the cursor is on it.Keyboard shortcuts Every ⌘ command for a hardware keyboard on iPad — new, search, delete, previous and next note, slots 1–9, split view — the fixed editing keys (Tab, ⌥↑/↓, Esc) and the quick actions from Bold to Find & replace, rebindable in Settings › Keyboard shortcuts and working even with the keyboard hidden.

Keywords

Keywords A word on the first line sets what a note does: math, list, sum, avg, count, timer or code. Triggers are editable in Settings.List Type list on the first line and every line becomes a checklist item. Headings and comments stay as they are.Math Lines ending in = are calculated in place. Define variables with name: value, use ans for the previous answer, and convert units and currencies.Sum, Average and Count sum adds every number in the note (lines ending in "=" are calculated first and only their answer counts), avg averages them, and count reports lines, words and characters — all live, as you type.Timer Type timer 5 for a countdown or timer 25 5 for a pomodoro, or use the Timer keyboard and widgets. A full-screen alert and a no-peek streak when it ends.Code The code keyword syntax-highlights a note; backticks and the Code block button fence code inside an ordinary note.

Extras

Search Search lists the stack newest first and filters as you type — a sheet on iPhone, a sidebar beside the note on a wide iPad window. Switch between ephemeral and slotted notes, browse the archive with the archived token, swipe a result to archive or delete it, and select several to copy, duplicate, archive or delete at once.Dictation Dictate into any note with Apple, an on-device Parakeet or Whisper model, or a cloud provider with your own key (OpenAI, Soniox or a custom endpoint). A stop word ends it; magic words turn it into an AI request.Read aloud Antinote reads a note aloud with an Apple voice, the on-device Kokoro voice, or a voice provider you connect, and keeps going in the background.Text from photos Capture text with the camera or from a photo, crop to the part you want, and the recognized text lands in the note. Optional AI clean-up.AI features Bring your own key for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and more, use Apple Intelligence on device, or try a few free clean-ups with the Antinote demo. Polish text, custom prompts and voice requests, with consent before anything is sent.Extensions Type a command like sum(2, 3) and press Return to run a JavaScript extension. Browse and pin commands, import your own, and sync them through iCloud.Widgets Pinned, billboard, to-do, favourites, latest and slotted note widgets, quick actions, search and timers, a note pinned to the lock screen as a Live Activity, plus Control Center controls and extra large sizes on iPad.Shortcuts and Siri App Intents for new notes, dictation, text capture and opening notes, with Siri phrases, for the Shortcuts app and automations.URL Schemes The antinote://x-callback-url actions other apps, scripts and extensions use to create, change, search and delete notes — the same URLs as the Mac.Sharing into Antinote Share text or a link from any app and it is saved straight into a new note, with no compose step. On iPad, drag text or an image from another app into a note.Publishing a note Orb menu › Publish puts a note at a link on antinotes.app — open to anyone with the link, or encrypted behind a passphrase. Links expire (30 days by default, 90 at most), display settings choose the appearance, theme, text size and font readers see, and Settings › Published notes lists every link with its state, views and expiry.Attachments Attach photos, scans, PDFs, clips and sketches to a note from the Orb menu and keep them in a rail beside the note: a column of tiles on an iPhone, a preview pane with a filmstrip (and an inline video player) on an iPad. Swipe the rail to change notes, drag a tile out to remove it, crop and annotate pictures in place. Files sync end-to-end encrypted through iCloud.Statistics Settings > Statistics collects anonymous usage counters in the background - notes created and deleted, characters typed, time Antinote spends focused, and your consecutive-day streak - and charts the last 28 days for this device, your Mac, or everything summed.

Notes Management

Locked notes Lock a note behind Face ID. One unlock opens them all, they relock on a timer and on quit, and they stay out of search while locked.Archived notes Archive a note to take it out of the stack without deleting it, and find it again with the archived search token.Read-only notes Mark a note read-only so a stray tap cannot change it; Allow Edits turns it back.The Void Deleted notes go to The Void, where they can be restored or permanently deleted, and from which they are emptied automatically after a time you choose.Auto-delete and new notes Notes you have not touched are deleted after a chosen time, and Antinote can open on a fresh note when you come back after a while.

Sync & Data

iCloud sync Notes and preferences sync end-to-end encrypted through your private iCloud database, with no account. Choose which preference groups travel in What syncs.Backups and restore Antinote keeps rolling backups on the device. Restore one from Settings › Notes; it applies on the next launch.Privacy and network access Every network connection the app can make is listed under Network access and is off until you turn it on. No analytics, no account, consent before any third-party service sees your text.

Themes & Visuals

Themes and backgrounds Built-in and custom themes, separate looks for ephemeral and slotted notes, and photo or video backgrounds with opacity, blur and colour removal.Type, paper and app icon Font size that follows the system text size, any font, paper textures, optional note count and date lines, and a choice of app icons.

License

Trial and lifetime license Everything is free for 14 days; after that a one-time purchase unlocks sync, themes, widgets, dictation, read aloud, extensions, AI, OCR and more. Writing, lists, math, timers, search and locked notes stay free.Refer friends Share your code; friends get 30 more days of trial, and three friends earn you an App Store code for the Lifetime license.