Alto: Index & Export App Data

Export Apple Notes, Messages, Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Screen Time to Markdown files you own, and keep them in sync as you go.

Your Mac holds years of your own writing, conversations and history, locked inside apps that will not let an AI read them. Alto Index copies it all out as plain Markdown into a folder you choose, and keeps that folder current.

Everything stays on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

HOW IT WORKS

- Connect the apps you want
- Alto Index exports them as Markdown to a folder you choose
- Point Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Obsidian, Cursor or any tool that reads files at that folder

Every file links back to the original, so you can jump straight to a note in Notes, an event in Calendar or a thread in Messages.

READY FOR AI WITHOUT ANY SETUP

Every sync writes the folder's own documentation:

- README.md describing what is in it
- Claude Code skills, so running claude in that folder already knows how to search your notes, messages and calendar
- a built-in MCP server, so Claude Desktop can read your data directly

CONNECTIONS

Apple Notes, Apple Mail, Messages, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Safari, Chrome bookmarks, Phone Calls, Voice Memos, Screenshots, Screen Time, Apple Books, Kindle, Podcasts, Bear

FREE, WITH NO LIMIT

Bear, Voice Memos with their transcripts, Podcasts, Screen Time and Contacts export in full, for free.

FREE TO TRY, PAY ONCE TO UNLOCK THE REST

- Messages, Mail: 200 items free
- Safari: 10 days of history free, with every bookmark and the Reading List
- Notes, Calendar, Reminders, Phone Calls: 100 items free
- Screenshots: 50 items free
- Apple Books, Kindle: 20 items free

PRICING, one time, never a subscription

- A single connection, any three, or all of them
- All of them means every source, including the ones we add later, at no extra cost
- Prices in your own currency, straight from the App Store

Your notes, your messages, your files. On your own disk, in a format that outlives any app.