Notes find their meeting
Write something during a lecture or a meeting, and Mote links it to that event. Put events on a page as live blocks, or give a table an event column and turn any appointment into a new row.
Just write it down.
Mote is the notes app that tidies up after you. Catch a thought in seconds, and it finds its place in your pages and tables. Privately, on your device.
For iPhone, iPad and Mac
Inbox
A chat with yourself.
Type, send, done. The inbox looks like a conversation, so there is nothing to decide while you write. Add a photo, a PDF or a voice note. Sorting can wait.
- Menu bar on the Mac (⌥⌘N)
- Share Sheet
- Widget
- Action Button & Shortcuts
- Dictation
- Photos, PDFs & files
Pages
Pages within pages.
Give every project, client and course a page, and every detail a subpage. Build them from blocks, link them together, and keep them in the sidebar you arrange yourself.
Blocks for everything
Headings, lists, to-dos, quotes, code, images, video, PDFs and simple tables. Each block can take a colour.
Links both ways
Type [[ to link a page. Every page lists what links to it, and the graph shows how it all hangs together.
Markdown in and out
Shortcuts as you type, Markdown when you paste, and every page exports as a .md file.
History for every page
Mote keeps earlier versions of a page. Look back at any of them and restore it with one tap.
Tabs on iPad and Mac
Keep several pages open side by side and jump between them with ⌃Tab.
Folders and web links
Link a folder on your Mac, a NAS or iCloud Drive, or drop a web link and Mote fetches its title.
Apple Pencil
Draw right on the page.
On iPad, a drawing is just another block. Pick up Apple Pencil and sketch between your notes, no mode to switch, no other app.
- Draws in place. Apple Pencil draws, your finger scrolls the page. Turn on finger drawing when you want it.
- An endless board. Open a drawing full screen and keep going in every direction, with the pens, markers and colours you know.
- Handwriting you can search. Mote reads what you write, so a scribbled word turns up in search.
- On iPhone and Mac too. Drawings sync through iCloud. Tap one on iPhone or click it on the Mac to open the same board.
Tables
Tables, kept simple.
A product roadmap, a hiring pipeline, a reading list. A table is a small database of its own: text, numbers, dates, choices, checkboxes, links, events and mail. Sort it, filter it, see it as a grid or a list. Every row opens as a page.
Embed the same table on as many pages as you like. Change it in one place, and it changes everywhere.
Apple Intelligence
Filed for you.
Quietly.
Mote uses Apple’s on-device model to do the tidying you never get round to. It suggests; you decide.
Suggests where every note belongs
Mote reads a note and proposes a page, a section or a table. One tap on File, and it is in place.
Tidies up while filing
A quick list after a colon becomes bullets, “still need to…” becomes a to-do, and a new page gets a title.
Answers from your notes
Ask in the search field. Mote answers from what you wrote and shows the notes it used.
Writes with you
Summarise a page, rephrase a paragraph, continue a draft, pull out the to-dos or turn text into a table.
Search finds words and meaning, even inside PDFs, photos and handwriting. Suggestions, answers and writing need a device with Apple Intelligence. An iPhone without it still captures, writes and searches, and your Mac does the sorting for it.
Calendar & Reminders
Your notes know what’s on.
Mote works with Apple Calendar and Reminders, so a page can hold the meeting, the notes and what comes next.
Reminders on the page
Pull in a reminder or create one right where you are writing. Check it off on the page or in Reminders, and both stay in step.
Google, Exchange and other calendars work too, once they are added to Apple Calendar.
Mail, right where it belongs.
The client’s reply, the booking confirmation, the invoice. Keep the mails that matter next to the notes they belong to.
- Drag a mail from Apple Mail into the inbox or onto any page. It becomes a card with sender, subject, a preview and the attachments.
- Pick senders once, and on the Mac the Mote extension for Mail drops their mails into your inbox on its own.
- Share a mail to Mote on iPhone and iPad.
- A Mail column turns any table into a tracker for applications, orders or support tickets.
Privacy
Private by design.
Your notes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. Nobody else can read them. Not even us.
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On-device intelligence
Sorting, answers and writing run on Apple’s on-device model. No note goes to a cloud AI.
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Your own iCloud
Notes sync through the private database of your iCloud account. We run no server at all.
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No account
Nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to. Open the app and write.
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No tracking
No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. This website sets no cookies either.
iPhone, iPad and Mac
One Mote. Every device.
Jot it down on your iPhone, file it on your Mac, draw on your iPad. Everything syncs through iCloud, in light and dark.
Get Mote.
One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26. Suggestions, answers and writing need Apple Intelligence.