Footnotes
Footnotes is a cloud notebook app for capturing photos, voice notes, and half-finished thoughts in a quiet, uncluttered space. It offers on-device storage, optional cloud sync with transcription and summaries, and a simple, nostalgic aesthetic designed to feel like a digital journal. The app supports Apple and Google sign-in and automatically migrates local vaults to the cloud.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applications
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Product
Problem
People often feel their everyday thoughts, photos, and voice memos are too small or incomplete to share, yet they still want a private place to keep them. Existing note-taking apps tend to be cluttered, notification-heavy, or designed for productivity, which discourages casual, whimsical capture of life's small moments.
Solution
Footnotes provides a minimalist cloud notebook designed for photos, voice notes, and half-finished thoughts without asking what they're for. The app offers a quiet, distraction-free interface that functions like a physical journal, letting users capture moments as they happen and revisit them whenever they wish. It supports on-device storage with optional cloud sync, automatic migration of local vaults, and hosted enrichment features like transcription and summaries. Users can sign in with Apple or Google to access their acknowledged notes across devices, while pending edits remain on the originating device until upload completes.
Target Audience
Primary users are individuals seeking a simple, private, and aesthetically pleasing digital notebook for capturing personal memories, thoughts, and voice notes without productivity pressure or social sharing expectations.
Features
- Cloud notebook with automatic sync across devices via Apple or Google sign-in
- On-device storage for pending edits and recordings, with resumable uploads and verified migration of older local vaults
- Optional hosted enrichment using Google Cloud processing for transcription and generated summaries
- Foreground location labeling to record where a note began
- Pseudonymous analytics bound to the signed-in account, with no data sent if the user never signs in or disables analytics
- App-private storage for new captures, with no automatic copies to Photos or user-selected folders