About

A native notebook
for what you say.

Notabe is a voice-first notes app built the way Apple builds its own — SwiftUI on the device, on-device transcription, iCloud for sync, Apple In-App Purchase for billing. No investor deck, no VC roadmap. One person reading the inbox.

Philosophy

Apple users notice details. The corner radius of a sheet, the curve of an animation, the way a button sinks under your finger. Cross-platform wrappers can't fake those details — they always feel off by a hair. So Notabe is built natively, in SwiftUI, the way Apple builds its own apps. It's slower to make. It pays back forever.

A notebook is not a recorder. A recorder rewards you with a pile of clips you never open; a notebook rewards you with thoughts you can read, search, and return to. Notabe is built around that distinction: you speak, and the AI does the transcribing, titling, and filing you keep meaning to do — so your thoughts stop vanishing and start being a place you return to.

Why voice notes, why now

Everyone has a notes app, but almost none are voice-first — and the ones that transcribe usually ship your audio to a server. Apple Notes barely organizes; the big note apps are web-first and heavy. There is a real, narrow gap for a native Apple app that captures by voice, transcribes on device, and organizes with AI you never have to think about — and stays under $60/year. Notabe is built for that gap.

How Notabe is built

SwiftUI on iPhone and iPad. SwiftData for your local notes, CloudKit for sync, and Apple's on-device speech for transcription — your audio never leaves the device. Gemini (Google) for summaries, auto-titles, and tags, Claude (Anthropic) for collection naming, Voyage AI for the embeddings behind semantic search and the Graph. A small backend service handles those AI calls and stores embeddings in Postgres with pgvector. There's no login — identity lives on your device and syncs over iCloud.

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