Palim: Scratchpad

A calm scratchpad for plain text, code and Markdown. No account, no ads, no tracking: your notes stay on your device.

Palim is a calm scratchpad for plain text, code and Markdown. Open it and start typing: there is no Save button, no files and no account. Notes save themselves as you type and are still there when you come back days later.

• Many notes, titled automatically from the first line (or rename them) • Plain Text, Code with highlighting for 33 languages (React and Vue included), and Markdown with Edit, Split and Preview views; in Split the preview scrolls along • Diagrams written as text in Markdown (Mermaid), drawn in the colours of your theme • Folders, nested as deep as you like, and notes in your own order (drag and drop) • Select several notes and folders to move, export or delete them together • Pin the notes you use every day to the top • Search every note at once, ignoring accents: "pho" finds "phở" • Tick tasks right in the Preview • Paste Markdown or code into a new note and Palim recognises it • A keyboard bar with Undo, Tab, arrows and the symbols you need • Adjustable text size • Present a folder as slides: every note is a slide, and a --- line in Markdown starts the next one. Make the text bigger or switch the theme from the slide toolbar • Open text, code, Markdown, JSON and ZIP files in Palim from Files, Mail or any app (Open With or Share); the original is never changed • Import files as notes and share any note as a file • Six light and dark themes • Delete with Undo; the Trash keeps notes for 30 days • Made for iPhone and iPad, in any orientation

Private by design: your notes stay on your device. Palim has no account, no server, no ads, no in-app purchases, no analytics and no tracking.

Your notes come with you to a new iPhone or iPad: they are part of your own iCloud Backup, so restoring a device or setting up a new one brings them back. Export All Notes saves everything into one file you keep wherever you like.