Bottled Note

Why Bottled Note

What makes a notes app pro?

Private where it matters. Powerful where you work.

Private by design.

No account, no tracking, no ads. Nothing you write ever passes through a server of ours. With Advanced Data Protection, not even Apple can read it.

Your notes are yours.

Every note is a plain file in a folder you choose. Open it in any app and back it up any way you like. If we stopped tomorrow, you would still have every word.

In sync on every device.

Start on the Mac, keep going on the iPad, look it up on the iPhone. Your own iCloud Drive keeps them in step, with nothing to sign up for.

Drawing, native to Apple Pencil.

Built on Apple’s own PencilKit, so the pen feels the way it should: no lag, pressure and tilt, your palm resting on the glass. Sketch beside your text or fill a whole sheet.

A PDF editor, built in.

Open the slides next to your notes. Highlight, underline, cut out a passage and drop it into your note with its page number. Your original file is never changed.

Everything links.

Link a note to a note, to a PDF page or to a single word on it. References like “Art. 8” or “Lecture 3, slide 12” turn into links by themselves.

Who makes it

Made by a law student who tried them all.

Hi, I’m Julius, a law student from Switzerland.

I tried every note-taking app on the market, but none of them gave me what I needed. I spent hours building tools, add-ons and templates just to get close to something I was happy with. When I talked to friends from my course, they told me the same thing. That’s why I built Bottled Note: a note-taking app that handles Markdown notes, PDFs and native Apple Pencil drawing, without compromising on ease of use or design.

Today almost every app is a subscription, built with as much friction as possible to keep you from leaving. As a customer myself, I decided against that. Bottled Note is a one-person project, with no investors and no crowdfunding, so I chose one fair price that you pay once and that lets me keep working on it.

I hope you will love Bottled Note as much as I do. Try it for yourself.

Julius, maker of Bottled Note

Write

As simple as you want. As deep as you need.

A note can stay a few lines. When it needs more, it takes tables, formulas, code, drawings, flashcards and pages from your PDFs, and it still looks clean.

A simple note with a title, two headings and text

The same note with a PDF slide, a formula, a callout, a table, a fill-in-the-blank and a to-do list

The same note, twice. Type / for any block; you never see Markdown.

/text Text
/h1 – /h4 Headings that fold
/bullet Bullet list
/number Numbered list
/todo To-do list
/quote Quote
/divider Divider
/callout Callout
/flashcard Flashcard
/cloze Fill-in-the-blank
/code Code in 30+ languages
/formula Formula
/inline formula Formula inside a sentence
/table Table
/drawing Drawing
/sheet Sheet to draw and diagram
/flowchart Flowchart
/gallery Gallery of 2 to 5 pictures
/link references Link every reference

Faster still: # for a heading, - for a list, 1. for numbers, and > for a quote. Pictures and PDFs go in by drag and drop.

One place

Everything you could want in one page.

Notes, PDFs, drawings and the map of it all. Keep scrolling, and watch the same iPad change.

A note on iPad with the lecture slides open beside it and a slide inserted into the note

A sheet in full screen with a flowchart of a speed control loop and a hand-drawn step response

The note again, with the sheet of the speed control loop inside it

The graph of a library, with folders, notes and the links between them

Read and write

Your PDF, right beside your notes.

Slides, a contract or a paper open in split view. Insert whole PDF pages into your note, quote a passage with its page number, and let autolinks turn every “Art. 8” into a link.

Sketch

A whole sheet for your ideas.

Full screen for Apple Pencil. Draw freely, then add clean shapes, boxes and arrows that stay connected. Flowcharts and sketches live on the same sheet.

Bring it back

Right back in your note.

The sheet you just drew sits in your note, between your text and your tables. Tap it and keep drawing.

Graph

See how it all connects.

Folders, notes, PDFs and their headings as one map. Tap a dot and it opens right there.

Connect

Everything connects.

Notes link to notes, notes link to pages, and references link themselves. The more you write, the more it holds together.

Links to the passage

Every PDF knows which notes point to it.

Valves open passively. See Lecture 2, p. 4

…the AV valves close when ventricular pressure exceeds atrial pressure. The semilunar valves open once it exceeds aortic pressure…

Autolinks

Show it once how references look in your field. From then on they link themselves to the right page.

Protected by the Fifth Amendment

A map of your library

Folders, notes, PDFs and headings as one graph. Tap a dot to open it.

Learn

Learn from your own notes.

Questions come from what you wrote. First you understand it, then you remember it, at your pace, in rounds of ten minutes.

Understand

Talk it through, with AI

Ask about anything in the unit, as often as you like. Bottled Note explains, asks back and checks that you really got it, like a tutor who has read your notes. What you worked out becomes questions for Remember.

Bottled NoteIn this unit it’s about the cardiac cycle. Can you picture what makes a heart valve open?

The pressure behind it gets higher than in front?

Bottled NoteExactly. The valves are passive. Now, which valves close when the ventricles start to contract?

The AV valves. That’s the first heart sound.

CitesCardiology.pdf, p. 12Heart, lecture 3Answers only from your own notes and PDFs, with the page each answer comes from.

Remember

Questions, with or without AI

Flashcard · Cardiac cycle

What is the Frank–Starling mechanism?

New

Seen

Practising

Settled

Mastered

A right answer moves a question up one stage, at most once a day. Mastered means right again and again, days apart.

Your AI, your choice

Bring your own AI.

Bottled Note has no AI to sell you and no AI subscription. Learn without any, use Apple Intelligence on your device for free, or add your own key for Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. You pay your provider directly, only for what you use, and you pick the model.

No markup, no lock-in

Your provider bills you at its own price. Switch whenever you like.

The model you want

A quick one to practise, the strongest for the hard chapters.

Your notes, your call

They only go where you send them. Without AI, nothing leaves your device.

Learn: your topics with their progress — Your topics

A topic with a quiz, chapters and how ready you are for the exam — How ready you are

A flashcard: you type your own answer before you see the model answer — Your answer, then the model

Nine kinds of questions.

Write them yourself in a note, or let the AI make them from your notes in Understand. Either way they are saved as files, so Remember works without AI too. Try them: they work here as they do in the app.

FLASHCARD

What does the Fifth Amendment protect?

Flashcard

A question, answered in your own words

FILL IN THE BLANK

Heart sounds

S1 is caused by the closure of the , S2 by the .

Fill in the blank

A sentence with missing words

SINGLE CHOICE

Which valve closes first when the heart contracts?

Single choice

One answer is right

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Which numbers are prime?

Several answers can be right.

Multiple choice

Several answers are right

TRUE OR FALSE

Every syllable needs a nucleus.

True or false

Judge a statement

LIST

Name the elements of a contract.

3 parts

1.2.3.

List

All parts of a list or scheme

ORDER

Order the phases of the heart.

Ejection

Filling

Contraction

Order

Put steps in the right order

MATCH

Match each term.

Tap a meaning, then its term.

SupplyDemand

Match

Connect terms and meanings

SORT

Vowel or consonant?

Tap a letter, then its group.

Sort

Sort items into groups

Every screen

One app. It fits every screen.

Bottled Note picks its layout from the width of the screen, not from the device. That is why it is ready for the iPhone Duo.

A note on Eigenvalues across both screens of the open Duo, with the sidebar on the left

iPhone DuoClosed, it is a phone with the iPhone layout. Open it like a book and it becomes a wide page: your list beside the note, or a note as two real pages with the fold between them. You stay right where you were.

iPhoneOne thing at a time. Folders slide in, a swipe from the edge goes back, and the PDF comes up as a sheet.

iPadSidebar, note and PDF side by side. Apple Pencil on notes, sheets and PDFs.

MacTabs, two documents side by side, keyboard shortcuts for everything and a Format menu.

A note on company law on the Mac, with the Code of Obligations open beside it as a PDF — Mac

The same company law note on iPad, with the Code of Obligations open beside it — iPad

The same company law note on iPhone — iPhone

Your library lives in iCloud Drive, so every device shows the same files.

Made for you

One app. Every kind of thinking.

Take notes in class. Learn from them before the exam.

A criminal law note on iPad on homicide, with the Swiss Criminal Code open beside it

A medicine note on iPad on the cardiac cycle, with the lecture slides open beside it

A sheet on iPad with a problem from the exercise sheet and a handwritten solution, the sheet open as a PDF beside it

A linguistics note on iPad on syllable structure, with the lecture slides open beside it

An engineering note on iPad with a flowchart of a speed control loop, a hand-drawn step response and Python code

Statutes and slides beside your notes. Write “Art. 12 Abs. 2 StGB” or “OR 520”, and it links to the right article on its own.

Autolinks to every article and paragraph
Statutes and codes as PDFs, right beside the note
Cases with facts, issues and solution under folding headings
Definitions and schemes as flashcards

Write flashcards and fill-in-the-blanks right into your lecture notes. Bottled Note asks them until you know every answer.

Anatomy drawings you label with Apple Pencil
Lecture slides beside your notes, highlighted
Flashcards and fill-in-the-blanks for every term
Processes like the cardiac cycle as order questions

Cut a problem out of the PDF, drop it on a sheet and solve it by hand with Apple Pencil, right next to the theory.

Formulas in LaTeX, in a sentence or on their own line
Handwriting on a sheet with Apple Pencil
Problems cut out of the PDF as snippets
Sketches of graphs beside the proof

Read the texts beside your notes and mark them up. Then write your essay in the same app and export it as a beautifully set PDF.

Texts side by side with your notes, highlighted
Vocabulary as flashcards and matching questions
Quotes with their page, linked to the source
Essays exported as cleanly set PDFs

Flowcharts, code, LaTeX formulas and lab results in one note. Cut a figure or a whole page out of the lecture PDF and insert it with one click.

Flowcharts and block diagrams that stay connected
Code in more than 30 languages
Formulas in LaTeX and lab results in tables
Figures and whole pages from the lecture PDF

Yours

Your notes. Your files. Your folder.

Plain Markdown and PDF.

Every note is a normal Markdown file you can open in the Finder or in any other app that reads the format. Nothing is locked in.

No account. No tracking.

The app collects no data and shows no ads. iCloud keeps your devices in sync through your own Apple account.

Bring everything with you.

Import Word, PowerPoint, RTF, text and HTML with headings, tables and images intact. Export any note as a PDF with a live preview.

.docx.pptx.rtf.txt.html.md.pdf

Nothing gets lost.

Recently Deleted keeps every note for 30 days.

Name	Kind	Size
Cardiac cycle.md	Markdown	4 KB
Cardiology – Lecture 2.pdf	PDF	2.1 MB
Cardiac cycle.flowchart.svg	Flowchart	12 KB
Wiggers diagram.zeichnung.svg	Drawing	38 KB
Heart sounds.md	Markdown	2 KB
ECG basics.md	Markdown	6 KB
.bottlednote	Highlights and progress	--

Pricing

60 days free. Then once, for good.

Because buying should mean owning.

Free during the beta · Planned prices for the launch

Every feature on every device from day one. No subscription, no card to start, and no notifications, not even to remind you to learn.

Your first 60 days

$0everything

Long enough to know if it is yours.

Notes with every block
All PDF tools: side by side, highlights, word links, cut-outs
Drawing, flowcharts and handwriting
Learning with every kind of question
Graph, autolinks and search
iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPhone Duo

Join the beta

Then

$49.99once

Yours for good. Pupils and students pay $39.99.

Every feature, on all your devices
Family Sharing for up to six people
No subscription, nothing renews
One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Decide in your first week: $10 less. That price never comes back.
Student price without proof. We trust you.

Buy right in the app, whenever you are ready.

TodayEverything unlocked, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No card.
Day 7Your lower price ends. We remind you once.
Day 53One more reminder: a week left.
Day 60Buy it once to keep going: $49.99, or $39.99 for students.

Two reminders, then we stay quiet. For good.

Planned prices for the App Store launch. During the beta, Bottled Note is free, and your 60 days only start with the App Store version. After you buy it, the app opens again right away. Your notes are plain files in your own folder, so they are always yours.

Questions

Do I have to use AI?

No. Bottled Note is not an AI app, and everything works without it. If you want AI, you choose the service: Apple Intelligence on your device, or your own key for Claude or another provider. Only what you ask about goes to that provider, and only when you ask.

Can my own AI agent work with my notes?

Yes. Your notes are a plain folder of files. The manual in the Help menu shows how to give Claude or any other agent access to that folder, and comes with a skill that explains how Bottled Note stores notes, highlights and cards.

Will the app send me notifications?

Almost never. We remind you once when your lower first-week price ends, and once a week before your 60 days are over. That is all, not even reminders to learn.

What does paying once mean?

You pay once and keep the version you bought for as long as you like, with no subscription. As long as I keep developing Bottled Note, updates come free. I cannot promise there will be updates forever, though. If the app is ever no longer developed, your version keeps working for as long as your system supports it, and your notes stay plain files in your folder.

Can I use Bottled Note with Obsidian?

Yes. Your library is a normal folder of Markdown files, so both apps can open it. Highlights, drawings and learning progress live in their own files next to your notes.

Is Bottled Note in the App Store yet?

Not yet. Right now Bottled Note is in a public beta: you install it free with TestFlight, Apple’s app for testing new apps. A beta can still have bugs, so keep a backup of notes that matter. Your notes are plain files, so they stay yours when the App Store version comes.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Everything is on your device. iCloud syncs when you are online again.

Is there a Windows or Android version?

Not yet. Bottled Note is made for iPhone, iPad and Mac first.

What is the iPhone Duo?

Apple’s foldable iPhone. It opens like a book from a 5.4-inch outer screen to a 7.6-inch inner one. Bottled Note uses the iPhone layout when it is closed and a two-sided layout when it is open, and keeps your place when you switch.

Public beta

Try it now, free.

Bottled Note is not in the App Store yet. You can test it today with TestFlight, Apple’s app for beta versions, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Install TestFlight from the App Store.
Open the beta link below on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Tap Accept, then Install. Updates arrive on their own.

Join the beta on TestFlight

A beta can still have bugs, so keep a backup of notes that matter. Send feedback right from TestFlight, I read every message.

Everything you ever wanted from a notes app.