Maho Notes

Markdown notes that live on your device. iCloud and GitHub sync, on-device semantic search, and full multilingual support — including 中文, 日本語, and 한국어.

Maho Notes is a markdown-based note-taking app for people who care about their words — and want to keep them.

Every note is a plain .md file on your device. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in, no servers you don't control. Sync through your own iCloud, your own GitHub repo, or keep notes purely local — your choice.

A NOTES APP THAT SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE

Full multilingual support, including search across English, 中文 (Traditional Chinese), 日本語 (Japanese), and 한국어 (Korean) — powered by a CJK-aware tokenizer that actually understands word boundaries in each language.

Add furigana to Japanese kanji, Zhuyin to Mandarin, Tâi-lô to Taiwanese, or readings to Korean — all with one simple syntax: {漢字|ふりがな}.

THREE WAYS TO SEARCH

• Keyword search — fast SQLite FTS5 across every note • Semantic search — on-device vector embeddings find ideas, not just words • Hybrid — both, fused into one ranked list

Models run entirely on-device. Nothing about your notes leaves your hardware.

WRITTEN IN MARKDOWN, RENDERED BEAUTIFULLY

• Full CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown • KaTeX math equations • Mermaid diagrams • Syntax-highlighted code blocks • Ruby annotations for any language • Image and asset embedding • Tables, task lists, footnotes

ORGANIZE YOUR WAY

Vaults hold collections. Collections hold notes. Drag-and-drop reordering, custom icons and colors, hierarchical sub-collections, and per-collection ordering — all stored in plain YAML you can read.

SYNC THAT RESPECTS YOU

• iCloud — seamless across your Apple devices • GitHub — version your notes as a private repo, sync through your own account using GitHub's official Device Flow login (no third-party server in the middle) • Device-only — keep everything offline

Conflicts get clearly-named files (note.conflict-DeviceName.md), never silent overwrites.

UNIVERSAL APP

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Optimized layouts for each: a focus-friendly stack on iPhone, a three-column workspace on iPad and Mac, with the same vault wherever you are.