footnotes: notes for noticing
everyday field notes
Only for iPhone
Free
footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life.
you can:
- capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together.
- return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape.
- make notebooks for different parts of your life, and
- turn moments into little stories to share.
slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole.
footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.
more • A friendlier start: skip the first note, and see how people use footnotes
• A cleaner notebook shelf
• Easier date changes for notes with several entries
• Fixes for deleting entries, capture messages and note times
1.3.3 5 days ago
• notes work even without offline
• import a photo along with its time and place, with undo
• change the date and time of notes with several entries
• a photo added to a note dates its new entry
• a note's first entry stays at the top; deleting it deletes the note
• other stability fixes
1.3.1 13 Oct
• write from the home-screen widget: widen it for camera and write
• a short "saved" moment as new notes land on the timeline
• reposition a photo's thumbnail in the timeline and note
• a daily reminder, offered after your first note
• photos are taken the instant you tap the shutter
• more reliable gallery video imports
• vietnamese writing in one font
• shared notes show video frames and have clean edges
1.3.0 11 Oct
this one's a big one: we rebuilt footnotes from the ground up for iPhone, so it feels more at home on your phone.
here's what's new:
- no more login issues when on wifi (hopefully!)
- keep up to 6 notebooks now.
- notifications are here. set gentle daily reminders to write, at a time you choose.
- your photos are sharper. the camera now uses the full camera on your iPhone, not a smaller frame from it.
- every lens is yours. step between ultra-wide, standard and telephoto, and get close for macro. it switches over on its own.
- selfies stay the way you framed them, and no longer flip after you take them.
- saving a note is one tap, even mid-sentence. to put the keyboard away and keep writing, just swipe down on your words.
- record, listen back and delete your recordings right from capture.
- jump through a long notebook by date with the new date scrubber.
- choosing notes is simpler. tap a note to select it, or press and hold an entry to share or delete it.
- photos no longer show up sideways while they load.
- lots of little fixes and polish all around.
please keep telling us what you'd love to see next. we'll share what we're focusing on building over on discord!
1.2.9 6 Oct
this one's a big one: we rebuilt footnotes from the ground up for iPhone, so it feels more at home on your phone.
here's what's new:
- no more login issues when on wifi (hopefully!)
- your photos are sharper. the camera now uses the full camera on your iphone, not a smaller frame from it.
- every lens is yours. step between ultra-wide, standard and telephoto, and get close for macro. it switches over on its own.
- selfies stay the way you framed them, and no longer flip after you take them.
- saving a note is one tap, even mid-sentence. to put the keyboard away and keep writing, just swipe down on your words.
- choosing notes is simpler. tap a note to select it, or press and hold an entry to share or delete it.
- photos no longer show up sideways while they load.
- lots of little fixes and polish all around.
please keep telling us what you'd love to see next. we'll share what we're focusing on building over on discord!
1.2.5 2 Oct
this one's a big one: we rebuilt footnotes from the ground up for iPhone, so it feels more at home on your phone.
here's what's new:
- your photos are sharper. the camera now uses the full camera on your iphone, not a smaller frame from it.
- every lens is yours. step between ultra-wide, standard and telephoto, and get close for macro. it switches over on its own.
- selfies stay the way you framed them, and no longer flip after you take them.
- saving a note is one tap, even mid-sentence. to put the keyboard away and keep writing, just swipe down on your words.
- choosing notes is simpler. tap a note to select it, or press and hold an entry to share or delete it.
- photos no longer show up sideways while they load.
- lots of little fixes and polish all around.
please keep telling us what you'd love to see next. we'll share what we're focusing on building over on discord!
1.2.3 1 Oct
this one's a big one: we rebuilt footnotes from the ground up for iPhone, so it feels more at home on your phone.
here's what's new:
- your photos are sharper. the camera now uses the full camera on your iphone, not a smaller frame from it.
- every lens is yours. step between ultra-wide, standard and telephoto, and get close for macro. it switches over on its own.
- selfies stay the way you framed them, and no longer flip after you take them.
- saving a note is one tap, even mid-sentence. to put the keyboard away and keep writing, just swipe down on your words.
- choosing notes is simpler. tap a note to select it, or press and hold an entry to share or delete it.
- photos no longer show up sideways while they load.
- lots of little fixes and polish all around.
please keep telling us what you'd love to see next. we'll share what we're focusing on building over on discord!
1.2.2 30 Sept
thank you so much, everyone, for the overwhelming love and support you've shown us. we read every message you sent, and this update is our first answer to what you told us.
here's what's new:
- you can change when and where a moment happened. if a note saved with the wrong time or place, you can set it right afterwards.
- editing feels like going back to the moment. tap edit and you're returned to where you captured it. if it holds photographs, they're
right there, to keep or let go.
- you can delete a note from its own page now, and a collection has its own menu to share, remove, or delete.
- a note with several entries moves to another notebook all together, in one step.
- the camera can turn around. there's a new button to switch to the front camera.
- writing is gentler. autocorrect, suggestions and capital letters at the start of sentences are on.
- your first notebook no longer has to stay forever. any notebook can go, as long as one remains.
- signing in is more dependable, with fewer interruptions, even on busy wi-fi.
please keep telling us what you'd love to see next. we'll share what we're focusing on building over on discord!
1.1.11 25 Sept
thank you so much, everyone, for the overwhelming love and support you've shown us. we read every message you sent, and this update is our first answer to what you told us.
here's what's new:
- you can change when and where a moment happened. if a note saved with the wrong time or place, you can set it right afterwards.
- editing feels like going back to the moment. tap edit and you're returned to where you captured it. if it holds photographs, they're
right there, to keep or let go.
- you can delete a note from its own page now, and a collection has its own menu to share, remove, or delete.
- a note with several entries moves to another notebook all together, in one step.
- the camera can turn around. there's a new button to switch to the front camera.
- writing is gentler. autocorrect, suggestions and capital letters at the start of sentences are on.
- your first notebook no longer has to stay forever. any notebook can go, as long as one remains.
- signing in is more dependable, with fewer interruptions, even on busy wi-fi.
please keep telling us what you'd love to see next. we'll share what we're focusing on building over on discord!
1.1.10 25 Sept
thank you so much, everyone, for all the love you've shown this app. it means more to us than we can really say.
we read every piece of feedback that comes our way, and we're working hard on all of it. please keep it coming, it genuinely shapes what we build next.
here's what's new:
- you can add to a note you've already kept. a photograph you take later, a voice note, a thought that arrives in the afternoon — they join the same note instead of starting a new one. a morning can stay one morning.
- signing in is simpler. apple and google now sign you in right here in the app, without sending you off to a browser and back again.
- everything feels steadier. fewer unexpected closes when you open the app or while you're capturing, voice notes that hold together properly, photographs that load when you expect them to, and sharing that sends only what you picked.
we'll keep you updated on what we're building next over on discord!
1.1.9 22 Sept
footnotes is here. so are you.
1.1.7 20 Sept
footnotes is here. so are you.
1.1.5 20 Sept
footnotes is here. so are you.
1.1.4 19 Sept
A more reliable footnotes experience, with improved capture, cloud sync, writing, and account controls
1.1.3 15 Sept
• A friendlier start: skip the first note, and see how people use footnotes
• A cleaner notebook shelf
• Easier date changes for notes with several entries
• Fixes for deleting entries, capture messages and note times
more Version 1.3.3 5 days ago
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