A calm, private home for ideas, plans, recipes and scraps. Notebooks inside notebooks, tags, rich text with checklists and pictures, and search that finds anything as you type. It stays on your own device, with no account and no AI.
Paraphernalia are the many small things you keep for a purpose. Notephernalia is a home for yours: ideas, lists, recipes, plans and scraps, kept tidy in notebooks on your own device.
Write first, sort it out later. Notephernalia keeps the small stuff findable without asking you to set anything up.
Every note is a clean page with just enough formatting: headings, lists and checklists, quotes, and pictures you can paste or drop straight in. It saves as you type.
Keep Home and Work apart, with Recipes inside Home and Meetings inside Work. Pin the notes you need most, add tags like #baking or #trips, and leave anything unfiled until you know where it goes.
Search looks through every title, every line and every tag at once, and highlights what it found. Type a few words in any order; capital letters don’t matter.
One tap hides the notebooks and the note list, so it’s just you and the page. Light or dark, or follow your phone.
Deleted notes wait in the Trash until you empty it. Your device keeps a snapshot each day, and a backup file holds everything, pictures included. Restoring one adds its notes back without erasing anything.
Notephernalia was built so they stay that way. There’s no company server holding your notes, because they never leave your device.
Everything is kept in your browser on your own phone or computer. It’s never uploaded, so no one else can see your notes.
Nothing to sign up for, no password to remember, and no email address to hand over.
Nothing reads, summarizes or rewrites your notes. Every word is yours.
No ads, no cookies, and nothing that follows you around the web. The app has no analytics at all; this website counts page visits privately, without cookies (details). It works offline, too.
Notephernalia runs in your web browser, so there’s no app store and nothing to download. Add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app, even without the internet.
On iPhone, adding it to your home screen also helps Safari keep your notes safe.
On a Mac with Safari, choose File, then Add to Dock. Or simply bookmark it. It works in any modern browser.
Each phone or computer keeps its own notes. A backup file is how you move them from one to another.
Try it free for 14 days, then unlock it for good with one payment. No account needed.
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Paraphernalia are the many small things you keep for a purpose. Notephernalia is a home for yours: ideas, lists, recipes, plans and scraps, kept tidy in notebooks on your own device.
Yes, any time. Settings, then Export saves every note as a Markdown file, in folders by notebook, with pictures alongside, in one .zip. It opens in Obsidian, Bear, iA Writer and most editors. To export a single note, use the ⋯ menu in that note.
Yes. Your notes are stored only in your browser, on your own phone or computer. They’re never uploaded anywhere. There’s no account and no advertising, and the app has no analytics, so there’s no one to share them with.
Yes. After your first visit, Notephernalia opens and saves without an internet connection. Adding it to your home screen makes it feel just like any other app.
You can use everything in Notephernalia free for 14 days. After that, unlock it to keep writing and editing. Your notes are never locked away: you can always open, export and back them up. One payment unlocks it for good on that device, and the key works on your other devices too.
Your notes live on the device you use, so they won’t move over by themselves. Before you switch, open Settings and save a backup: one file holding everything. Keep it in iCloud Drive or Google Drive, or email it to yourself.
On the new phone, open the app, go to Settings, choose Restore, and pick that file. Restoring merges with what’s already there and never erases it.
Notephernalia is $14.99, one time, with no subscription. Try it free for 14 days first. No account or card needed for the trial.
Just a web browser: Safari on iPhone or iPad, Chrome on Android, or Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox on a computer. There’s nothing to download from an app store.
Jot down the first thing on your mind. It will be right where you left it.
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