Hirsla
Niklaus Gerber Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Hirsla is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Niklaus Gerber. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 31, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 20 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 31
- 2026 · v1.1.1
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About Hirsla
Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. Best with Apple Intelligence, on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, or iPad with M1 or A17 Pro and newer. Hirsla is a small place for the things in between: the door code, the parking level, the claim number, the restaurant someone recommended. Too small for a note, too useful to lose. SHARE IT Tap Share in any app and pick Hirsla. Links, text, places, photos, PDFs, voice memos, calendar files. Nothing to name, no folder to choose. Your iPhone writes the card: a title, a short summary and the details that matter, like codes, addresses and deadlines. Without Apple Intelligence the titles and summaries are simpler. ASK FOR IT LATER Type or speak: "What was the door code for the hotel?" You get the answer and the cards it came from. If it is not in your cards, Hirsla is built to say so. WORKS IN FLIGHT MODE The AI runs on your device with Apple's on-device model. Once Apple Intelligence is set up, your cards, search and Ask work without a connection. Saving a new link needs one, to load the page. SOURCES FOR EVERY ANSWER Each sentence of an answer carries a small number. Tap it to open the card it came from, with the passage it used marked. ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO On iPad, the list and the open card sit side by side, with a sidebar for your card types. Drop anything onto Hirsla to save it, or drag a card out as its original. Keyboard shortcuts such as ⌘K to ask and ⌘N for a new note are in the menu bar. On iPhone Duo, Hirsla uses the system's own toolbar and tab bar. DRAW Add a drawing as a card, with Apple Pencil on iPad or a finger on iPhone. Your handwriting is read on the device and can be found like any other text. MORE - Record voice memos on iPhone or Apple Watch, transcribed on your device once the speech model is installed - Scan documents and photos, with their text read - Widgets, Lock Screen and Control Centre shortcuts - A map of where you saved things, if you turn it on - Your own notes in Markdown - Cards in another language are also described in your phone's language, so a search in your own words finds them - Clean Up and Regenerate Title for notes, both with Undo YOURS No account. No analytics. No server of mine. Export everything as Markdown with your originals, any time. Deleted cards stay recoverable for 30 days. Your cards sync between your devices through your own iCloud. PRICE Free to download, with room for 100 cards. If you need more, you can add room in packs from Settings, as often as you like. Packs are optional in-app purchases. No subscription, no ads. Hirsla is made in Switzerland by one person and is small on purpose. It replaces nothing. Apple Intelligence and Apple Watch are trademarks of Apple Inc.
What’s new
Version 1.1.1 · Updated October 31, 2026
Sharing is fixed: a link from apps such as Amazon or Google is now saved once, as one card named after the page. - Short links (Amazon, Google, bit.ly and others) are followed to the real page, also when you paste or drop them. A short link shared offline is followed the next time you open Hirsla. - Share the same Amazon product again and it lands on the same card. New in 1.1, in case you missed it: - Hirsla runs on iPad and iPhone Duo. - Answers number their sources, sentence by sentence. - Drawing, a new card type. Handwriting is read on the device. - Apple Watch: the watch face shows recordings waiting for the iPhone, and a card offers itself in the Smart Stack. - Draw straight from the widgets, the Lock Screen and a Control.
App privacy
The developer, Niklaus Gerber, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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