# Keepout: Private Notes

> Private, local AI notes

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6799290256](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6799290256)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6799290256`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alex Richard Fiore
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-19
- **First published:** 2026-08-19
- **Size:** 27 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepout-private-notes/id6799290256)
- **Website:** [https://harborline.co/keepout](https://harborline.co/keepout)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://harborline.cloud/keepout/privacy](https://harborline.cloud/keepout/privacy)

## Description

Private notes with encrypted markdown, connected ideas, and on-device AI. No account, cloud sync, analytics, or remote prompt processing.

Keepout is a private notes app for iPhone and iPad. Your writing stays on your device, encrypted at rest, with local tools for connecting and understanding ideas.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

• AES-256-GCM encryption protects every note at rest.
• Your vault key stays in this device's non-synchronizing Keychain.
• Opaque filenames keep note titles and links out of the file system.
• There is no account, cloud sync, analytics, remote prompt processing, or plaintext search index.

CONNECTED KNOWLEDGE

• Link notes with familiar double-bracket wiki links.
• Follow backlinks and suggested related notes.
• Explore an interactive knowledge graph built with Apple's local sentence embeddings.
• Search decrypted notes in memory while the vault is unlocked.

LOCAL AI

• Ask questions, summarize a note, and suggest connections without sending note text to a server.
• Use Apple Foundation Models on supported devices.
• Choose the optional MLX engine for local inference. Its compact model downloads once on first use; inference then stays on your device.

FOCUSED WRITING

• Open the transient action bar from the toolbar or with Command-K on a hardware keyboard.
• Type / in the editor for headings, lists, tasks, quotes, code blocks, dividers, and links.
• Switch to a centered typewriter view that hides the side columns and softly fades the page edges.
• Navigate with touch or hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad.
• Markdown syntax and link destinations stay visually quiet until the caret enters them.

Keepout stores each encrypted note in a .md file so your vault remains a collection of Markdown documents without exposing their contents at rest.

## Rankings

- #2,176,931 — Overall

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6799290256)