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notebook

The ease of Notes, the freedom of files. A native Mac, iPhone and iPad app that writes like Apple Notes and keeps every note a file in iCloud Drive or any folder: Markdown or AsciiDoc when typed, a PDF when written by…

  • Completely free
  • macOS and iOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

notebook is a note-taking program, available on macOS and iOS.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Every note is a Markdown file in iCloud Drive or any folder, right next to your other documents.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “The ease of Notes, the freedom of files: a native notes app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that writes like Apple Notes.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of notebook is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub lukaskaibel/notebook (GPL-3.0-only)

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