the app
Honest screenshots.
It looks like this.
on-device · markdown · yours
Save links, screenshots, voice notes and PDFs into one quiet place. IKI reads everything on your iPhone, turns it into cards worth returning to, and answers questions using only what you saved.
iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Safari on Mac. No account. Works offline.
capture
The share sheet. A button in Safari. The screenshot you took at 2am. A thought spoken into your watch. Saving takes two taps and zero decisions: no folders, no tags to invent, nothing to file.
the app
distill
Apple's on-device model gives every item a short summary, honest tags and one card with the gist. Nothing is sent anywhere to be understood.
Flour 500g, water 350g, salt 12g, yeast 2g. Cold ferment 48 hours. Bake on a stone at 280°.
From a story, a chat, a website. It goes into Photos and would normally die there among four thousand others.
Screenshots sync automatically. On-device OCR pulls the text out, tables included, in English, Russian or Portuguese.
Title, the gist in one line, tags it chose itself. The card is typeset like a page from a book, because it is one.
Behind the card sits a markdown file with the original image next to it. Open it in the Files app any time.
ask
Answers are assembled from your own saves, with citations that jump to the exact paragraph. When your library doesn't know, IKI says so instead of making something up.
No cloud reading over your shoulder.
No feed. No streaks. No metrics.
No tags to maintain on a Sunday.
No account, because a library card is not a login.
Your thoughts, typeset. On your phone. As files.
--- type: article title: How to Do Great Work url: https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html tags: [work, essays, pg] summary: Pick something you have an aptitude for and deep interest in. Work on your own projects. --- July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? …
surfaces
IKI lives in the corners of iOS you use without thinking.
The latest card on your home screen, a weekly digest, and a resurfaced find on the nightstand.
Recording lives in the Island. Pause or stop a voice note without opening the app.
Speak a thought on your wrist. It lands in the library transcribed, dated to the moment you said it.
Handwritten pages become searchable text. Mark up screenshots and PDFs. A real sidebar and keyboard shortcuts.
One click saves the page from Safari on Mac, iPhone or iPad. Selected text becomes a quote note.
"Record a thought in IKI." "Open my Reading collection." English, Russian and Portuguese.
resurface
A widget brings back something from three months ago, distilled to one line. While your phone charges at night, IKI connects new saves to old ones. The library gets denser, not just deeper.
the library rules
Nobody stands behind you at a bookshelf. Software shouldn't either.
Formats die, companies die. Plain text on your own device survives both.
No infinite scroll, no engagement loops. You take a book, you put it back.
You did the hard part: you noticed something worth keeping. The filing is on us.
pricing
The free plan is not a trial and never holds your saves hostage.
Forever
or $49 a year
500 seats, lifetime Pro
Coming from somewhere else?
In a folder on your device: Documents/IKI/Library. Every save is a markdown file with its assets next to it. You can see it in the Files app right now, and any editor that reads markdown can open it.
You keep everything. Pocket gave people three months to export before deleting a decade of saves. IKI can't do that to you even if it wanted to: your library is already plain files on your hardware.
No. The AI runs on your device using Apple's Foundation Models. Your saves never reach our servers. If you plug in your own Claude API key, those requests go directly from your phone to Anthropic under your key, and only when you ask a question.
Yes. IKI reads Pocket exports (CSV and HTML), Evernote .enex files and your Safari Reading List. Imports run on the device with a progress bar in the Dynamic Island.
Two minutes to set up. Nothing to organize, ever.