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A native library
for what you read.

Notabe is a bookmark app built the way Apple builds its own — SwiftUI on the device, iCloud for sync, Apple In-App Purchase for billing. No investor deck, no VC roadmap. One person reading the inbox.

Philosophy

Apple users notice details. The corner radius of a sheet, the curve of an animation, the way a button sinks under your finger. Cross-platform wrappers can't fake those details — they always feel off by a hair. So Notabe is built natively, in SwiftUI, the way Apple builds its own apps. It's slower to make. It pays back forever.

A library is not a database. Databases reward completeness; libraries reward selection. Notabe is built around that distinction: the AI does the organizing you keep meaning to do, so your saves stop being a graveyard and start being a place you return to.

Why bookmarks, why now

Pocket shut down in October 2025. Browser bookmarks search by title only. Anybox is beautiful but unintelligent. Raindrop is web-first and bloated. mymind is web-first and premium-priced (from about $6.99/month). There is a real, narrow gap for a native Apple app that uses AI invisibly — and stays under $60/year. Notabe is built for that gap.

How Notabe is built

SwiftUI on every device. SwiftData for the local library, CloudKit for sync. Gemini (Google) for summaries, auto-tags, and tag normalization, Claude (Anthropic) for collection naming, Voyage AI for embeddings. The backend is a Supabase project — Edge Functions for the AI calls, Postgres + pgvector for storage, and a private bucket for the 24-hour page snapshot cache. The Mac app is the flagship. The iPhone app ships as a full editor alongside it.

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