Nownote: One Note at a Time
Benoit GRANDJEAN Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Nownote: One Note at a Time is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Benoit GRANDJEAN. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 27, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 27
- 2026 · v1.2.4
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About Nownote: One Note at a Time
Nownote is a digital minimalist note-taking scratchpad designed for pure focus, zero cognitive friction, and instant capture. Inspired by physical index cards and tactile paper notebooks, Nownote provides a single, high-performance active canvas that eliminates organization anxiety. There are no nested folders, no complex tagging hierarchies, and no endless note lists to manage. Just one focused space for what matters right now. KEY FEATURES: • 0ms Instant Keyboard Focus: Launch directly to your cursor at the exact end of your note with zero startup latency. Supported via deep link (nownote://type) and 1-tap lock screen interactions. • Interactive Home & Lock Screen Widgets (17+): Check off todo list items (- [ ] / - [x]), insert live timestamps ([14:30]), and append new tasks directly from your Home Screen without needing to launch the app. • Dynamic Island & Lock Screen Live Activities: Keep your current high-priority checklist or active thought gently pinned to your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island while multitasking. Features content-aware dynamic typography scaling and frosted glass backgrounds. • 8 Curated Minimalist Themes: Handcrafted aesthetic palettes tailored for every environment: Paper & Ink, OLED Pure Dark, Warm Sepia, Nord Frost, Terminal Matrix, Matcha Tea, Solarized Dark, and Midnight Blue. • Typography Control: Choose between four system typefaces: Modern Sans, Monospace, Classic Serif, or Friendly Rounded. • 100% Private & On-Device: Zero accounts, zero logins, zero cloud dependencies, and zero tracking. Your notes and archives remain exclusively within your device's sandboxed local storage.
What’s new
Version 1.2.4 · Updated October 27, 2026
• Your theme on the Lock Screen: turn on Settings › Use Theme on Lock Screen and the pinned Lock Screen bubble uses your theme's background, text and accent colors, like the Home Screen widget. It's off by default, so the bubble keeps its classic white-on-dark look. • Rebuilt vector app icon for crisp edges in Light, Dark and Tinted modes on iOS 26.
App privacy
The developer, Benoit GRANDJEAN, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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