Skriva
A markdown editor that leaves your files where they are.
Pick a folder in Files - iCloud Drive, Dropbox, On My iPhone - and Skriva edits the .md and .txt notes inside it, in place. Nothing is copied into the app. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account to make.
Download for iOSBetav1.0.0
# Skriva site Make the page *show* the editor. - [x] a note, up at the top - [ ] a picture for when it is shared See [[Launch]] for the rest.
The toolbar
A toolbar that knows where the caret is
Heading, bold, italic, strikethrough, code, link, note link, to-do, bullets, numbers, quote, find, undo, redo. Buttons light up when the caret sits inside what they would toggle, and the heading button shows the level you are already at. Pressing bold on bold text unwraps it.
Writing
Hardware keys, if you carry one
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌘B | Bold |
| ⌘I | Italic |
| ⌘K | Link |
| ⌘[ | Note link |
| ⌘F | Find |
Lists that carry themselves
Return continues a bullet, a number, a to-do or a quote. Numbers increment, to-dos start unticked, and Return on an empty marker clears it. Tap a checkbox on the box itself to tick it.
Every edit goes through the system text input rather than the storage underneath it, so undo, autocorrect and dictation keep working the way they do everywhere else.
Links between notes
Type [[ and a bar of matching note names appears above the toolbar. Tapping a [[link]] jumps to that note - and if no note by that name exists yet, it is created and opened. Linking ahead of yourself is the point.
Notes for the beta. See [[
Today
Today
Monday, 7 September
Ship the beta · 2 unfinished yesterday
A card at the top of the listing, headed with today's date. Tapping it opens today's note, making it the first time. It carries how today is going and what yesterday left unticked, because the weak point of a daily note is the gap between days.
A long press reaches yesterday and tomorrow. Where the notes live is a setting rather than an assumption, and moving that folder brings the dated notes along with it.
Finding things again
- Search matches filenames as you type, and full note text across the whole folder tree.
- A row shows what you ask it to: the opening lines, tags, checklist progress, word count, date. Turn it all off for name and date alone.
- Dates read as Edited yesterday, not as timestamps.
- Pinned notes get their own section above the listing.
Nothing leaves the device
- No network code anywhere - no analytics, no crash reporter, no dependency.
- No copy of your data. Skriva stores a bookmark to your folder and nothing else.
- That bookmark lives in the Keychain, device-only, so it never syncs and never lands in a backup.
- Every read and write is coordinated, so other apps and other devices see a consistent file.
- Encoding is checked, not guessed. An unreadable file is refused rather than mangled.
You do not have to take that on faith:
$ grep -r "URLSession" skriva/ # no matches
URLSession is how an app on the iPhone talks to the network. That command reads every file Skriva is built from, looking for it. Nothing comes back.
When it changes somewhere else
Your folder is a folder, so other things can reach it: the same note open on a Mac, a sync client catching up in the background, the Files app, a shortcut. Skriva watches the file rather than assuming it owns it. When the copy on disk stops matching the one on screen, one capsule appears over the text and says which of those happened.
Seven things that can happen to a file, and what the app says about each. Swipe through them, or use the arrows.
Autosave working is not news. A capsule that turns up for every save is a capsule you stop reading, and the one time it matters you will scroll straight past it.
Not losing things
- Autosave runs shortly after you stop typing, and every keystroke is journalled immediately - the point is surviving the gap between the two.
- Deleting moves to the trash, so a mis-tap is recoverable from Recently Deleted in Files. Every delete is confirmed by name.
- Edit conflicts keep both by default. When another device changes a note you have open, the other version is parked beside yours instead of overwriting it. The options that throw a version away are both marked as doing so.
- Drafts are hashed and protected, so the app's own container never holds a readable index of what is in your folder.
Get it
Download for iOSBetav1.0.0
Your folder stays your folder.