Basalt

Basalt puts the markdown notes you keep in a GitHub repository on your phone — fully offline, and writable. Point it at a repo, sync once, and the whole vault is on the device: readable, searchable and editable with the network off. Write on the bus, and the edit lands in your repo as a real commit the moment you have a connection again. Your notes stay plain markdown files in a repository you own. There is no Basalt account, no proprietary format, and no server holding a copy of your writing. WORKS WITH OBSIDIAN VAULTS Basalt reads real Obsidian markdown, so the vault you already have needs no conversion: wikilinks, callouts, transclusion, footnotes, ==highlights==, tags, frontmatter, Mermaid diagrams, tables and code blocks. OFFLINE FIRST - The vault lives on disk and is indexed into SQLite. Nothing needs the network after the first sync. - Full-text search across every note, plus a fuzzy quick switcher for jumping by name. - Wikilinks, backlinks and linked mentions: [[note]] resolves the way you expect, and every note shows what points at it. - A note connection graph with filters, search and a minimap, plus a local graph for any single note. - Outline and heading jump for moving inside long notes. EDITING THAT COMMITS ITSELF - Edits queue on the device and push as real commits when you are back online. - A pending-changes screen shows exactly what will be committed, with conflict resolution when the repo has moved on. - Tappable task lists: tick a checkbox straight from the page. - Highlights you can export, which survive re-syncing when the text moves. - Background sync tells you when the repository has moved ahead. BUILT FOR PRIVATE NOTES - Optional biometric app lock and a screen-capture guard. - Your GitHub token is held in hardware-backed secure storage and is sent only to GitHub. - No analytics, no telemetry, no advertising, no tracking of any kind. - Multiple vaults side by side. Public repositories work without signing in at all. TRY IT WITHOUT A REPO Basalt ships with a sample vault. On the connect screen, tap "Look around a sample vault" — no GitHub account, no network, nothing to connect. Every feature above works on it. Four deliberate choices: - Never the word "reader." Basalt writes, and your own conventions forbid shipping copy that calls it one. The editing section sits above the privacy section for the same reason — it's half the product, not a footnote. - "Works with Obsidian vaults," not "Obsidian app." Obsidian is someone else's trademark, and Play's metadata policy treats implied affiliation as a rejection reason. Naming it once as a compatibility fact, plus the closing disclaimer, is the safe form. Don't add Obsidian to the app name. - No keyword stuffing. Repeating "notes app markdown Obsidian sync" is the single most common metadata rejection. The description reads as prose because that's also what converts. - The "TRY IT WITHOUT A REPO" section does double duty — it lowers the barrier for users and quietly tells the reviewer how to reach the whole app without credentials, backing up your sign-in declaration.