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About markdown notes - Smolpad

Smolpad is a smol Markdown editor with respect for your files. Every note is a plain .md file you can open with any app, on any device, forever. Your files are your own. No database. No lock-in. No bloat. Just a tiny, fast home for your notes on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. WRITE IN MARKDOWN, BEAUTIFULLY • Syntax dims as you type, or hides away entirely with one tap • Task lists become real checkboxes. Checkboxes that check. • Headings, bold, italic, code, and quotes, styled as you write • A formatting bar for common touches, plus full keyboard shortcuts • Pictures too: drag or paste one in, resize it by its corner, and it lives as a plain file beside the note YOUR FILES, ANYWHERE • Notes sync through your own iCloud Drive, included free • Open your notes folder in Finder or Files any time • Organize with folders, pins, and instant search • Nothing ever leaves your devices except to your own cloud SMOL ON PURPOSE • On the Mac, Smolpad lives in your menu bar, one hotkey away • Tear off a note into its own window when you want to stay a while • On iPhone and iPad, it opens fast and stays out of your way • Seven hand-picked fonts and a clean, quiet interface MAKE IT YOURS WITH SMOLPAD PRO • Unlimited notes (the free tier includes ten) • Dropbox sync, in an app folder that belongs to you • Twenty-nine editor themes, from Tokyo Night to Catppuccin • Seventeen app icons and the full menu bar icon set Smolpad Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The free tier is a real notes app, not a trial. Made by a smol team that believes plain text outlives everything. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smolpad.com/privacy

What’s new

Version 1.3.6 · Updated September 15, 2026

NEW • A daily note, one per day. Turn on Daily note in Settings > General and Smolpad keeps one note per calendar day in a Daily folder, named by its date in the format you pick from eight. On the Mac, the Shortcut group in Settings > General gains Set keyboard shortcut to open today's note: press it anywhere and today's note comes to the front, created if need be. • A calendar for daily notes. With Daily note on, the note list gets a calendar button. Days that have a note carry a dot, today sits on a tinted disc, and tapping any day opens its note, creating it if there is none. • Add to Today's Note from any app on the Mac. Select text anywhere, right-click or open the app's Services menu, and choose Add to Today's Note in Smolpad. The text lands under today's heading. • Smolpad can offer what you just copied. Turn on Enable clipboard notification in Settings > Editor > Customize Editor, and opening Smolpad with new text or a picture on the clipboard shows a small card asking Paste clipboard? New Note puts it in a new note; while your cursor is in a note, Yes pastes it right there. The card leaves on its own after 20 seconds. On the Mac, Settings > General > Notes has Always paste clipboard into a new note. • Save the clipboard from the Home Screen. On iPhone and iPad, long-press the Smolpad icon and choose Save Clipboard: whatever you copied, text or a picture, becomes a new note and Smolpad opens on it. • Import a folder of notes. Settings > Storage > Import Notes has an Import notes button: pick a folder and Smolpad copies the Markdown and text files at its top level into your notes. • Settings > Storage says what iCloud is doing. A line under the storage cards says whether iCloud is on and every note is synced, whether notes are uploading or downloading, or, in amber, that notes are staying on this device. • Tab nests a list item. On a bullet, numbered, or task line, Tab indents the item one level and Shift-Tab brings it back out. Numbered lists renumber to match. On iPhone and iPad this is for hardware keyboards. • Paste a link onto selected text on the Mac. Select some words, copy a web address, and press Command-V: the words become a link to it. iPhone and iPad already worked this way. • Two new editor themes, Doki Sayori and Doki Vanilla. Twenty-nine themes in all. • Always on top for the torn-off window on the Mac, three ways: the switch in Settings > Editor > Customize Editor, the note list's right-click menu, or the pin at the end of the window's status bar. • About shows the build number next to the version, and a Release Notes link opens smolpad.com/release-notes. CHANGED • Settings are grouped under headings: Launch Configuration, Popup, and Notes in General; Import Notes in Storage; Customize Editor in Editor. • The popup appears instantly on the Mac. Settings > General > Popup has Animate popup, off by default, for anyone who wants the old motion back. • The Settings and Search buttons float over the note list, and the list scrolls beneath them. FIXED • The Mac joins iCloud without a relaunch. Turning on iCloud Drive, or signing in to iCloud, while Smolpad is open now copies your notes into iCloud right away. And if iCloud Drive is slow to answer at launch, Smolpad asks again on its own. • A missing picture says so. A note whose picture file has been moved or deleted now shows a small frame with the picture icon and the file's name, instead of a blank line.

App privacy

The developer, BaconWorks, LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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