Write now. It connects later.

Etona is a notes app for iPhone and iPad that connects what you write. You write; it finds the people, places and themes in it, and hands it back when you look back.

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    Write or save anything. Free

    Open Etona and type. Or don't open it: tap New Note on the Lock Screen or in Control Center, press the Action button, or share from any app.

    A note needs no title and no folder. Photos, screenshots, voice memos, links, PDFs and files all count. Every note saves on your device first, instantly, with or without a signal. Nothing waits on AI.

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    Etona reads it. Free

    On your device, Etona reads the words in your photos, screenshots and PDFs, transcribes your voice memos, and finds the people and places you mention. Search works by the words you used or by what you meant. Tap a name to see everything you've written about that person or place, by day.

    If you allow AI, Google's Gemini AI also reads each note's text to find more names, what needs doing, and a short subject Etona uses to group notes. See where your notes go.

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    Themes form. Etona Pro

    After about 20 notes, Etona groups the ones that belong together: Friday the Dog, the Japan trip, the kitchen redo. Each theme gets a color, and every note in it wears that color as a dot. Etona marks what it found, and you can rename or hide any theme.

    The first time, Etona downloads a 107 MB language model over Wi‑Fi so it can do this work on your device.

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    Every theme gets a page. Etona Pro

    Each theme has a page of what your notes say about it: what you know, what's changed and what's still open. Every sentence ends in a number; tap it to open the note it came from. Etona drops any sentence it can't source. Anything from a saved web page is credited to the page, not to you. Pages are rewritten as your notes change.

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    Ask. Etona Pro

    Ask a question in plain words. Etona answers in a sentence or three from your notes, quotes the note it used, and checks that the quote is really there. If your notes don't answer it, you'll see “Your notes don't say.” Save an answer and it becomes a note.

    Here it is.

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    Look back. Etona Pro

    Your week tells the last seven days back as a short story, in your own words and in the language most of them were in. It lists the new names and themes, and one older note worth seeing again. Sky shows every note as a star, grouped by theme. It's always night there.

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    Take it all with you. Free

    Export every note as Markdown in one zip, with photos, recordings, files, theme pages and names. Bring notes in from Apple Notes, Obsidian, Evernote, ChatGPT and Claude.

Keep every spark.

Free to write. Etona Pro from $5.99 a month.