Slips
I made a notes app. It’s called Slips, and it’s built on an idea I couldn’t shake: most of my notes apps slowly turned into junk drawers. Hundreds of notes, folders I stopped looking in, and that one grocery list buried somewhere under all of it.
Slips gives you five notes. That’s all, and that’s the point. Five is enough for the things you actually come back to, and few enough that you always know where everything is. No folders, no archive, no setup. Pick a slip and write.
Make it yours
Each slip gets its own name, icon, and color, and they’re always one tap away at the bottom of the screen. Mine are Today, Grocery, Books, Trips, and Gifts. Yours might be Meds, Recipes, Scripture, Projects, Kids. The app takes on the color of whatever slip you’re in, which sounds small until you’ve used it for a day.
The writing itself is real writing: bold, highlights, headers, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists you tap to check off, and links that turn into tidy preview cards.
It syncs, and it’s backed up
Your slips live in your own private iCloud and stay current on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. There’s no account to create, and nothing is collected or tracked. The privacy label is “Data Not Collected” because there’s genuinely nothing to collect.
Every device also quietly saves a daily backup of your slips, and restoring takes one tap, with a safety copy made first so even a restore can be undone. You can export your slips to a file any time and keep it wherever you like.
At home on every device
On iPhone, your slips are tabs. On iPad and Mac, they’re a sidebar. The Mac version is a real Mac app: formatting in the menu bar, Cmd+1 through Cmd+5 to jump between slips, an optional menu bar icon, and sharing straight from Safari.
There are widgets for your Home and Lock Screen, a Control Center button, Siri and Shortcuts support, and you can send text into a slip from any app’s share sheet. Spotlight finds anything you’ve written.
Pricing
The trial is limited to 1 slip but never expires. If five slips fit your brain the way they fit mine, you can upgrade with monthly, yearly, and lifetime options. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and Family Sharing is supported.
Questions or trouble? There’s a support page and the privacy policy , or just reach out — I’m easy to find around here.