Apple Notes
Launched 2011
123 features found available
In their words
Capture thoughts or detailed notes. Your notes are always up to date on any device and on the web. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Apple Notes:
Free
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Can suggest how to revise/rewrite selected text using AI
Longform text can be analyzed with specific improvement suggestions, which can be individually approved/rejected
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Content of the PDF can be marked up inside the note, rather than using an external editor
Content of the PDF can be viewed inside the note, rather than clicking on PDF and having it open in an external PDF viewer
Playing and interacting with YouTube videos is possible from within a note
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
Company offers on-site real time chat support, or a chat server in which the company participates
The company offers a version of the product that can be used indefinitely at no cost, without a note limit
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Can enable two-factor authentication from within the app (not only via third parties) to protect account access
Note data can be encrypted before leaving the user's device such that the decryption key is not shared with the note app provider (sometimes referred to as "end-to-end encryption")
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
Documented claim that all note data and their attachments are encrypted on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
A note or block can have a password applied to hide it
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Audio can be placed in a note with embedded controls to start and stop the audio
a vertical bar formatted to the left of the selected text allows for an indented "quote" styling
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Drawn content from within the app can be translated into text
A permanent text selection formatting menu is available at the top or bottom of the editor
Can font size be explicitly set? I.e., not just through setting it as a header
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
Numbers are used at the beginning of the line to assemble ordered lists
A sub-list contained within an ordered list
Text formatting can be toggled between left to right and right to left in the editor
Videos can be placed in the body of a note, with controls to start and stop the video
What functionality specific to images is possible?
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be cropped (e.g., to remove the left half of it)
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
Words in the image are added to full text search, so the note will show up in search results that contain a word from within the image
Without leaving the app, text can be drawn on top of an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be rotated (e.g., 90 degrees, counterclockwise)
Text or handwriting from within an image can be inserted into the note body
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
An entire account can be deleted (including all notes and personal data) without emailing the company
App includes a built in importer for Evernote notes (ENEX)
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Addition, subtraction and multiplication is possible within an evaluated expression (not including table formulas)
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
How fast is it?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App or thin Electron wrapper
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
When entering text into the search field, matching hierarchical tags/directories are offered to help the user filter note content
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
Using whatever mechanism the app provides to organize notes (e.g., tags, folders), can that mechanism be used as a full text search filter?
A dialog is provided to look up other notes as link targets while creating a new link in a note
A note can be in multiple navigation hierarchies concurrently (i.e., because it has multiple tags)
A note can be pinned to the top of the note list for easy access, and will stay there until unpinned
A hotkey is available that can be used to access an input box that searches notes, and a note can be selected from that list without using the mouse
The portion of the note that matches a user search query is shown on all desktop and mobile platforms
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently with a real-time editing system that prevents merge errors if the same paragraph is concurrently edited
Enable a specific user or multiple users to view and/or edit one's otherwise private note content
The note owner has options for different levels of permissions when sharing a note with other users who have an account (ex: full access, read only, editable by others)
It's possible to define a group of notes to be shared through a single action
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Allows for basic text formatting (e.g., bold, italics) to an entire row or column of data within a table
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
A hotkey allows entering a new note or task while in the midst of using any desktop app
Text can be prefaced with a completable checkbox, but is not removed from the task list when completed
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
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