Barely Notes
Ashley Cornette Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Barely Notes is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Ashley Cornette. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 2, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 1 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 2
- 2026 · v1.3.2
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About Barely Notes
Barely is a minimalist note app. One note at a time. No folders. No tags. No noise. Write what matters right now. Archive when done. Start fresh. Time-aware The app shifts with you. Warm mornings. Clean middays. Deep evenings. The tone changes automatically, or set it manually. Weekly surface Your archived notes surface back to you for seven days. Review, restore, or let them fade away. After a week, they're gone. Camera Capture a photo or record a video directly into your note. Share it however you want. Widgets See your active note at a glance. Small, medium, and large home screen widgets. Lock screen widgets. Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island. Bokashi themes Five curated color gradients inspired by the traditional color vocabulary of Japan. Sakura, Matcha, Sumi, Kumo, and Akatsuki. Each theme changes your app icon to match. One-time purchase. No subscription. Barely enough. Exactly right.
What’s new
Version 1.3.2 · Updated October 2, 2026
Checklist improvements Press Return on any checklist item to insert a new item below it; works between existing items, not just at the end. Tapping a checklist item places the cursor at the end instead of selecting all text. Empty checklists now gray out archive and delete, matching plain text behavior. Toggling checklist mode off properly clears the focus state.
App privacy
The developer, Ashley Cornette, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barely Notes | – | Free | October 2, 2026 | |
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