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About
Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking via its mobile-first design. Featuring Writing in markdown is supported but optional, providing Slightly more technical details, for those into that type of thing - Optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes - Offline note editing, syncing when back online - Category editing and filtering - Favorites - Spell checking - Search within the collection or individual notes - Focus mode and optional hiding of the editor header and formatting bars - In preview: export to PDF, ODT and HTML - A convergent design, seeing Iotas as at home on desktop as mobile - Search from GNOME Shell - Note backup and restoration (from CLI, for using without sync) - The ability to change font size and toggle monospace style - Formatting via toolbar and shortcuts - Syntax highlighting with themes - A formatted view - The ability to check off task lists from the formatted view - Nextcloud Notes sync is via the REST API, not WebDAV, which makes it snappy - There's basic sync conflict detection - Notes are constantly saved - Large note collections are partially loaded to quicken startup - Notes are stored in SQLite, providing for fast search (FTS) without reinventing the wheel. Plain files can be retrieved by making a backup (CLI).
Changelog
Adds The Catalan and German translations also see updates. Contributors - Changing of mouse cursor when hovering over link in editor while holding ctrl - Blank space below bottom of single note view, for readability (#279) - Alt-enter shortcut to select first header bar category - Ability to press enter in the note outline list to open the first filtered entry - Norwegian Bokmål translation - Jürgen Benvenuti - Kjartan Maraas - Victor Dargallo
Additional information
- Developer
- Chris Heywood
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Category
- Utilities
- Languages
- bg, ca, cs, de, el, en_GB, en_US, eo, es, eu, fi, fr, he, hu, it, ka, kk, nb, nl, oc, pt_BR, ro, ru, sl, sr, sv, tr, uk, uz, zh_CN
- Size
- 36.1 MB
- Homepage
- https://apps.gnome.org/Iotas
- Available via
- Flathub (Flatpak), AUR (git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE
- Catalog data as of
- 9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)