Write the way you already write. Own everything you create.
A note-taking app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Plain markdown files on your disk, end-to-end encrypted sync between your devices. Yours to keep, forever.
Built around four ideas.
Just write.
Bold, italic, lists, tables, tasks. Keyboard shortcuts you already know. No markdown to memorize, no syntax to learn. Start with a single note today; let it grow into whatever you need.
Lives on your computer.
Your notes are real files on your disk. Open them, back them up, take them with you. The app works offline. Always.
Private by design.
End-to-end encrypted sync between your devices. Your password never leaves your machine. We literally cannot read your notes.
Built on open formats.
Under the hood, your notes are markdown — portable, future-proof, and ready for the AI tools you'll want tomorrow. Without locking you into anyone's ecosystem today.
Two devices. One vault. Only you can read it.
Jot something on your laptop at lunch and pick it up on your desktop at home, seconds later. Your notes are locked on your device before they ever leave it — so the server passing them between your machines only ever sees scrambled gibberish, never your words.
- Your password is the only key — and it never leaves your device.
- A recovery phrase keeps you from ever being locked out of your own notes.
- Change a note in two places at once and both versions are kept — nothing is silently overwritten.
Everything you'd want, nothing you wouldn't.
The features that matter for everyday writing — and none of the clutter that gets in the way of it.
Write naturally.
Headings, bold, lists, quotes, checklists, real tables — the formatting appears as you type. There's no markup to memorize, and a flip to source mode whenever you want the raw markdown.
Find anything in a second.
Jump to a note by its title, or by a phrase you half-remember from somewhere inside it. It stays instant whether you have a hundred notes or ten thousand.
Tables, tasks, and daily notes.
Proper tables you click to edit. Checkboxes that roll up across your vault so you see what's left. A dated note for every day, one keystroke away.
Organize it your way.
A vault is just a folder of folders. Drag notes between them, keep several open in tabs. No rigid structure to fit into, no database to learn.
Plain files, private sync.
Your notes are ordinary markdown files on your disk — open them with anything, forever. Sync encrypts them on your device before upload, with a password that never leaves your machine.
Works on every device.
Mac, Windows, and Linux, with the same vault and notes on each. Move between computers as often as you like — nothing to convert, nothing to re-import.
Your AI, in your vault.
Jotura comes with a command-line companion, so the AI tools you already use — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini — can read, search, and edit your notes directly. Your notes are plain markdown files, so agents work with them natively, with safety checks that keep concurrent edits from stepping on each other.
- No unlock step, no session dance — plain files mean your agent just works.
- Your agent can never quietly overwrite something you wrote — a safety check catches the conflict first.
- Your AI provider only ever sees the snippets your agent sends — never your sync password, never the whole vault.
# Edit safely from any AI agent
HASH=$(jotura read inbox/today.md \
--json | jq -r .hash)
jotura edit inbox/today.md \
--replace "TODO: reply to alice" \
--with "DONE: replied to alice" \
--if-hash "$HASH"Drop in a document. Find it later.
PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets — drop them into your vault and they live right alongside your notes. Jotura builds a searchable markdown mirror of each one automatically, so you can find a document by what's inside it, not just its filename.
- Add by drag-and-drop, paste, the command line, or an optional OS folder you drop files into.
- Open any document in its native app — it's a real file, so your edits save in place.
- The converter ships inside the app and runs sandboxed with no network. Nothing to install, works offline.
Roadmap.
Documents, tables, task lists, and daily notes have shipped. Here's what's next.
Documents
shippedDrop in PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets. Real files right alongside your notes, mirrored to searchable markdown, editable in their native apps.
Tables that don't suck
shippedInsert real tables, click to edit, drag to resize. None of markdown's | --- | --- | cell-counting hell.
Task lists
shippedCheckboxes you can actually use. Track what you're doing, see what's done, roll up across notes.
Daily notes
shippedOne note per day, auto-dated, one keystroke away. Journal, work log, capture-and-process — however you use it.
AI you control
roadmapBring-your-own-key writing assistance. Your notes stay on your machine; AI only sees what you choose to send.
Mobile
roadmapiOS and Android via the same Rust core. Same vault, same keys.
Sharing
roadmapShare a folder or note, encrypted to the recipient. Server still can't read it.
One app. Every platform.
A single, native download for each system — no runtime to install, no bloat to put up with.
macOS
universal binary (Intel + Apple Silicon)
Windows
.msi installer
Linux
.AppImage + .deb
Free, and no account needed to use it. Syncing across devices is optional — when you want it, you sign in with a passwordless magic link.