Ruminote: Smart Note Canvas

Ruminote is a note app that puts your thoughts on a canvas, not on pages. Text, tasks, drawings, photos, audio, video, maps, PDFs and code all live as cards in the same note — and notes link together into a graph of your thinking. AI installs on your device by default; switch to a cloud model with your own key if you want. ✦ THINK ON A CANVAS • Place 18 card types freely on an infinite canvas, align them with magnets and pins • Switch between graph, grid and tag views • Link notes together and see incoming links at a tap • Start fast with templates, a template store and a doodle & illustration library • Branch an idea out on a mind map card, expand a node with AI • Circle cards to group them into a named area ✦ A PEN THAT FEELS REAL • 26 brushes, layers and brush import; pressure sensitivity, low-latency ink • Text warp and handwriting; convert handwriting to text, edit with gestures • Turn drawings into cards and come back to edit any time ✦ AI, ON YOUR DEVICE • Write with AI: fix, rewrite, shorten, expand, change the tone, explain selected text • Ask Your Note and Ask Your Notes: chat with one note or your whole vault, and see where the answer came from • Describe images, extract text (OCR), parse receipts and business cards • Photo tools: erase objects, tap-select-cut, replace backgrounds and skies, remove noise and blur • Audio tools: advanced speech recognition in 11 languages, transcripts with speaker labels, noise cleanup, vocal/music separation • Gemma 3/4 and expert models run on your device by default — search and embedding always stay on-device, even with a remote model • Semantic search: finds the note even when your words are not in it • AI Board: give a topic, get a canvas laid out with sections, tables and charts • On-device AI images: turn a prompt into a picture, free and offline • Optional remote AI with your own key (OpenAI, Gemini and more) ✦ CODE AND DOCUMENTS • Syntax-highlighted code cards; run code in 11 languages • Import PDFs; mark up PDFs and photos, flatten and share — the original file is never touched • Document scanner with built-in OCR; image crop, searchable PDF • Bar, line and pie charts straight from a data table • Table, math and note-reference blocks in text cards • Quiz/poll card: add an interactive block to a note, scored automatically ✦ WORK TOGETHER • Share notes and edit together in real time with live cursors; discuss with card comments and mentions • Compare and restore changes with version history • Send notes device to device via QR or nearby share ✦ PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • Every note is end-to-end encrypted on your device with AES-256; the server only ever sees ciphertext — sharing, sync and backups included • Offline-first: create, edit and search without a connection • Export all your notes to one file and import them back any time — cards, positions and drawings included • App lock: fingerprint or your screen-lock password • See your active devices, sign out remotely • No tracking. No data mining. ✦ AND MORE • Natural-language, repeating reminders ("tomorrow at 9am"); snooze, calendar export • Tags, full-text search, Google Drive backup • Share a link to get a clipping card with title, summary and cover • Collections: group notes like folders • Automation bridge: notify Zapier, IFTTT or Make via webhook when a note changes; local MCP server on desktop • Private web search, 11 languages, modern Material design • Listen to a note aloud — the device's own voice, no download • Also runs on Desktop (Linux) — Windows and iOS in development; send web pages to Ruminote with the browser extension • Meeting and lecture mode: speech turns into text live; then a transcript with speakers, a summary and tasks Ruminote Collab unlocks sync, sharing and cloud features. Everything that runs on your device — AI included — is free. Everything on your mind — words, strokes, sound, code — on one canvas, and yours alone.