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FoldNotes

Foldsoft Pty Ltd

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Some notes are short. Others grow into chapters, plans and running logs you scroll past a hundred times. FoldNotes lets you fold the finished parts away, so a long note stays as small as the part you are actually working on. Every note is a plain Markdown file. No database, no proprietary format, no export step. Your notes sit in iCloud Drive or on your device, and any other app can open them, today or in ten years. It is also a real iOS app, written in Swift. Not a web page in a wrapper. It opens instantly, works offline, handles a hardware keyboard properly, and does not sit in the background eating your battery. FOLD ANYTHING • Collapse any heading or list item and everything beneath it folds away • Hoist a section to work on it alone, with everything else out of sight • Task counts stay on the folded heading, so you can see what is left without unfolding WRITTEN FOR MARKDOWN • Live styling as you type — headings, lists, quotes, code, links • Six heading levels, and GFM tables with a real table editor • Code blocks with syntax highlighting • Wiki-links [[like this]], with previews and automatic backlinks • Nested tags TASKS WHERE YOU WROTE THEM • Four states: to do, in progress, done and cancelled • Due dates and priorities written inline, in plain text • Assign them to a project and add context and comments • Counts roll up to the section above them BUILT FOR IPAD • Library, notes and editor side by side • Hardware keyboard shortcuts throughout • An inspector with outline, tasks, references, properties and a note graph • Scan printed text straight into a note with the camera FIND ANYTHING • Search every note, including regular expressions • Saved queries and database views across your whole collection • Daily notes with a calendar COMING FROM ANOTHER APP • Import from Bear or Obsidian in a tap • Or simply point FoldNotes at the Markdown files you already have MAKE IT YOURS • Light and dark themes, including Nord, Dracula and Catppuccin • Choose your body, heading and code fonts • Paragraph focus, sentence focus and typewriter scrolling Folding is not a formatting trick. A long document asks you to hold every section in your head at once; folding lets you put the finished ones down. That is the whole idea, and everything else here is built around it. Your notes will outlive this app, and every app like it. That is rather the point.

What's new

Version 1.5.0 · Nov 8, 2026

**Major Release** • Interactive Whiteboards • Hide or show Markdown: it's now your choice • Neat tables and code syntax highlighting • Interactive Whiteboards. A whiteboard lays your notes out on a canvas, with text boxes, shapes and arrows between them. Each note becomes a card that shows the note itself: its tags, words, pictures and tasks. New whiteboards are made in FoldNotes for Mac 1.2 and sync here through iCloud, under the new Whiteboards row in the sidebar. On iPad and an open iPhone Duo you can work on them: drag notes and other boards in, connect them, and add text boxes, shapes, frames, and pictures and PDFs from your attachments. On iPhone you can look around a board, open its notes, and follow a card or a link to another board. • Sample whiteboards to try. Three whiteboards come with FoldNotes, under Whiteboards > Samples in the sidebar: a short tutorial to practise on, a tour of what a board can do, and a map of how FoldNotes fits together. On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, try anything on them: nothing is kept, so each one starts fresh, and your own notes are never changed. To hide them, turn off Show Sample Whiteboards in Settings > Behaviour. • Hide or show Markdown: it's now your choice. Markdown now hides as you write, so a note reads like the finished page. Headings, bold, italic, highlights, links and quotes show as they look, without their marks, and the marks come back only where your cursor touches them. Links read as their words and still work. Tasks draw as squares, the same as the Preview: tap one to move it to its next state. A picture's reference reads as its caption, and a --- line draws as a line across the page. Prefer to see every mark? Switching back is easy: turn on Show Markdown in Settings > Editor, or in a note under Focus & POS. With a keyboard on iPad, it's View > Show Markdown (Control-Command-M). Either way nothing in your notes changes: every mark stays in the file. • Neat tables, right in your notes. A table draws as a neat grid: a shaded header, a thin grid between the cells, your body font, and no pipes or dashes. Columns are sized to their words, so a word is never cut in two, and a table too wide for the screen moves when you drag sideways over it. Tap a table to select it, then copy or delete it whole from its menu, or choose Edit Table to change its cells in the table editor. A double-tap opens the table editor too, and a table you copy pastes in as a table of its own. • Syntax colours in code blocks. Name the language after a code block's opening backticks and its code is coloured as you type, in the Preview's own colours. 28 languages, among them Swift, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, shell, C, Go, Rust and SQL. • Focus Mode and tables. In paragraph and sentence focus, a table always stays bright, so you can read it while you write about it, and a whole code block stays bright while the cursor is anywhere in it. The fold arrow beside your focused text stays at full strength. • Fixed: ticking a task's square moved the cursor to the end of that task's line. It now stays exactly where it was. • Fixed: the code block and comment buttons did nothing in a new, empty note. • Fixed: a sync conflict's banner stayed on screen when you opened another note, and that note couldn't be edited. • Fixed: opening or closing a group in the sidebar, such as Queries or Database Views, made the whole list jump. • Plus a number of smaller fixes.

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