MDash

Yes, and Books is free. A book is a list of chapters in groups such as Front Matter, Part One and Back Matter. Every chapter is an ordinary note, written in the same editor, with a status (To do, Draft, Revised, Done) and its own word goal, and you reorder chapters and groups by dragging them. Below the manuscript, Notes & research and Characters & places hold everything that isn't part of the book: they are never counted, read or exported. A character or place sheet lists the chapters that link to it.

Give the book a word goal and each chapter its own, and the rings fill as you type. Turn on a daily target with a deadline and MDash works out how many words each day needs, or set a fixed number of words per day. Pick your writing days, and the book shows today's words, the days left and your streak. An optional reminder comes on writing days when today's target isn't met yet.

Yes. Select some words and choose Comment, or add one at the cursor. Comments appear as small bubbles you can edit, resolve or delete, and the book screen lists every open comment across your chapters. They never reach Read whole book, an export or a word count. Comments work in every note, and they are stored in the note's plain text as CriticMarkup.

Yes. Read whole book shows the manuscript as one continuous, read-only scroll, chapter after chapter; tap a chapter title to edit it. Export turns the whole book into one file: Markdown and plain text are free, and EPUB, DOCX and PDF need MDash Pro. Those three come in a Classic, Modern or Manuscript style, with a title page, a table of contents and a heading for each chapter.

Yes, with MDash Pro and iCloud Sync. Books, chapter order and status, goals, daily targets and comments come along on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. Install MDash 6.3 or later on each device, because older versions show chapters as ordinary notes. Apple Watch and Apple TV don't show books.

Every note is plain Markdown. MDash mode only changes how the text looks on screen, and you can export any note as a .md file at any time.

Yes. Writing, Books, comments, the daily target, MDash mode, Split mode, sketches, note reminders, Mermaid diagrams, math, folders, tags, search and Markdown export are free. MDash Pro adds iCloud Sync, the Apple Watch and Apple TV readers, more export formats, locked notes, widgets and the Mac MCP server, as a yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial, a monthly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase.

iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro run the full editor. Apple Watch and Apple TV are readers for your synced notes. One App Store purchase covers them all.

Yes. Write a mermaid code block and MDash renders flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, class and state diagrams and more, offline, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro.

Yes. Import loose files, whole folders such as an Obsidian vault or an Apple Notes export, TextBundle and TextPack packages, and Bear backups, for free. Attachments, dates, tags and folders come along.

MDash works fully offline. Notes live on your device; if you turn on iCloud Sync, they also go to your own private iCloud database. There is no MDash account, no tracking and no server of ours.

Markdown (.md) and plain text (.txt) are free, and you can copy any note as rich text. MDash Pro adds PDF, Word (DOCX), ePub, HTML, RTF, JPG and TextBundle. Mermaid diagrams, math and code highlighting carry through to the exported file.

Yes, with MDash Pro. Lock any note behind Face ID, Touch ID, Optic ID or your device passcode. Locked notes stay out of widgets and the Apple Watch and Apple TV readers, and in iCloud their content is stored in encrypted fields.

Yes. MDash Pro includes five widgets: a single note, a notes list, a note count, a checklist you can tick off without opening the app, and upcoming reminders you can mark done from the Home Screen. Tap a widget to jump straight to the note.

Yes. With MDash Pro and iCloud Sync, Apple Watch and Apple TV show your whole library, including folders, photos, checklists, code, math and callouts. Both are read-only, so you write on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Vision Pro.

Yes, and it's free. Version History keeps earlier versions of every note on your device. Open a note's ⋮ menu, pick a version, then copy it, restore it as a new note, or put it back in place. Replacing the note keeps the current text in the history too.

On Mac with MDash Pro, Settings ▸ MCP gives you a command to add to Claude Code, Codex, VS Code or another MCP client. The assistant talks to MDash locally on your Mac and can search, read, create and organize notes, but never rewrite an existing note.