Notes & Writing

Md2Docx

Markdown to editable Word, with real equations and diagrams

If your pipeline ends in a .docx for someone who will never open a terminal, this makes the handoff one command instead of a Pandoc wrestling match.

CV Builder: Resume Architect

Eleven resume templates on an iPhone that never phone home

Everything stays on the device and Pro is one $7.99 unlock, so a job hunt does not leave you with another renewal to cancel afterwards.

Enzyme

Indexes your Markdown vault so a coding agent can cite it

If your decisions live in Markdown, this hands an agent a ranked, citable index of them instead of a grep across months of notes.

Most journals fail because they ask too much, and this one asks two questions a night, so a year later the ordinary days are still there.

Kalem

A Rust editor for code, Org, CSV, PDFs and spreadsheets, driven by Vim keys

If you juggle a code editor, a notes app and a spreadsheet viewer, Kalem tries to open them all in one Vim-keyed window while keeping files as plain text.

mosaic

A private desktop board of tasks, notes, sheets and readers that never syncs out

It is a Notion-style home screen for people who would rather not hand their lists and notes to anyone's server.

If your audience lives on personal blogs rather than platforms, this is a way to be found, and to find them, without an algorithm built for ads.

nTree

An outline for the household facts you only need once a year, with reminders

It gives the small recurring chores and records of life, filters, leases, warranties, one nested place with dates that nudge you, for free.

anygrep

Find a half-remembered note, PDF page or screenshot without a GPU or cloud

It lets you search your own files by meaning on an ordinary laptop, with nothing leaving the machine and no vector database to run.

Biblio Times

An RSS reader for Apple devices that lays your feeds out like a printed paper

It turns feed reading into a finite daily object with an end, fetched on your own device with no account, for a one-time price.

Read Rare

A hand-picked shelf of 54 internal memos, decks and out-of-print tech books

Founders get the primary documents behind how Apple, Intel, Netflix and Microsoft actually decided things, in one place, for an evening's reading instead of a week of hunting.

WordCraft

A native editor that opens and saves .docx, with the ribbon intact

Track changes, styles and mail merge are the reasons teams never leave Word, and this is a free native app that keeps them rather than quietly dropping them.

Tabbin

An MIT-licensed Windows notes app with no account and no cloud

Windows finally gets the kind of small, free, open-source desktop utility that usually only ships for the Mac.

Refactoring English

A writing course in book form for engineers who write design docs and emails

The writing developers do every day, such as design docs, tutorials, emails and blog posts, decides how far their work travels, and this book treats it as a skill you can practise.

iwrote

A writing page that keeps a tamper-evident log of how each piece was typed

Instead of guessing with an AI detector, a writer can hand readers a checkable record of pauses, deletions and pastes.

KnowNote

Ask questions of your own documents on your desktop, with every answer cited

If NotebookLM is off the table for confidentiality reasons, this gives you cited answers over your files with retrieval that never leaves the laptop.

Weave

A voice or text journal whose AI reflections never leave your iPhone

Journaling with AI usually means handing your most private writing to a server; Weave does the transcription, search and reflection on the phone itself.

Sanemark

A Markdown language server for keeping notes in your editor, not a notes app

People who keep notes in VS Code, Zed or Neovim get daily notes, link checking and tidy reference links while their files stay plain Markdown that renders on GitHub.

For people who left Bear or Apple Notes for plain files but miss the polish, it keeps notes as .md and charges only for sync and transcription.

If Notion's own clipper leaves you with half an article and empty columns, this one fills in author, date and tags, and sends your data only to Notion.

Tono It

A pre-send coach in your iPhone keyboard: safer, funnier or your own voice

The free path runs on Apple Intelligence with drafts never leaving the phone, which is the privacy bar most tone-rewriters fail.

Gdocs-me-up

Turn a Google Doc into standalone HTML and CSS that still looks like the doc

If you write in Google Docs and publish elsewhere, this gets your headings, spacing, lists and images out intact without the broken Publish to web page.

TypeSeer

On-device AI autocomplete for almost every text field on a Mac

It brings the grey ghost-text completion people know from code editors to mail, chat and documents, without any of the typing leaving the machine.

PenDate Notes

A calendar-first handwriting planner for iOS and Android, free core

If you think in dates rather than notebooks, this puts handwritten pages on the calendar itself, with no account and no ads.