Husky Notes

Markdown notes you'll love. Sync you can trust.

Husky Notes pairs the open, plain-text soul of Obsidian with the effortless reliability of Bear — wrapped in a beautiful, themeable editor that's a genuine pleasure to write in. Every note is just Markdown, and always yours. Built from the ground up in SwiftUI for iPhone, iPad and Mac, so it feels at home on every Apple device you own. No account, no subscriptions, no tracking. Free forever, with every single feature included.

MARKDOWN AT HEART
Every note's body is plain CommonMark, with the GitHub-Flavored extensions you actually use — tables, task lists, footnotes and fenced code. Write with live, inline-rendered formatting powered by a real native text engine: headings, quotes, lists, code and #tags style themselves as you type. No web view, no preview pane to flip to, no lag. The file underneath stays clean, portable Markdown the whole time — nothing proprietary, nothing trapped.

THE EDITOR
Powered by TextKit 2 — Apple's modern native text engine, not a web view bolted into a shell. The difference is felt constantly: no lag between keystroke and screen, smooth selection, a cursor that behaves, and real system-quality typography.
• Live inline Markdown — no preview pane to flip to
• Native typography and full hardware-keyboard support on iPad and Mac
• Code blocks, checklists, tables and footnotes
• Distraction-free focus mode for when you just need the words

SYNC THAT JUST WORKS
Your notes live in your own private iCloud database, scoped to your Apple ID and encrypted in transit and at rest. Record-level sync with automatic conflict handling keeps every device in step. There's no Husky server and no account to create — we never see a word you write. We didn't promise not to look; we built it so we can't.
• Offline-first — keep writing with no connection, it catches up automatically
• No account, ever — nothing to sign up for, no password to forget
• Optional Face ID / Touch ID app lock, handled entirely on-device

YOUR DATA IS NEVER TRAPPED
Flip one toggle and Husky Notes continuously mirrors every note to real .md files with YAML frontmatter. Drop them straight into Obsidian or any editor you like. Not a one-time export you have to remember to run — a live, ongoing mirror of your library as plain files you fully control. Your notes are files, and files go anywhere.

BEAUTIFUL THEMES
Theming is a core feature, not a setting buried away — and it's fully decoupled from storage, so switching carries zero risk to your notes. Ship with the signature Blue Husky, plus Husky Day, Pine and Ember — or build your own palette and typography from scratch.

TAGS & SMART LISTS
Drop #inline tags anywhere and Husky builds smart lists automatically — Pinned, Today, Untagged and per-tag — with no folders to create and no rules to configure. Structure that emerges from how you actually write.

INSTANT SEARCH
A full-text index keeps search fast across thousands of notes. Compose tag filters with free text — like #work invoice — and narrow straight to the note you mean.

OPEN SOURCE, BY DESIGN
Husky Notes is fully open source under the MIT license. Read the code, audit the sync, file an issue, or build it yourself. Combined with first-class Markdown export, that turns every privacy claim here from "trust us" into "verify it" — the real, enforceable promise that your data is yours, forever.

NOTHING IT SHOULDN'T
No account. No subscription. No ads. No tracking, and we never use your notes to train anything. No proprietary format. Fast, native, private and open — that's the whole pitch.

Requires iOS / iPadOS 18 or macOS 15 or later.
Open source at github.com/ChrisNicholson30/HuskyNotes