Own your thoughts.
CLARITY ATLAS
Your Roadmap to an Organized Life
The note app where AI does the filing and answers from your notes — and every note stays a plain Markdown file you own.
Each star is something the app does — touch one, or keep scrolling.
All the leverage of AI.
None of the blind trust.
01 · Capture
Capture in seconds.
Text, photos, checklists, voice — into one inbox before the thought escapes. Paste a screenshot right into the note.
02 · Filing
AI does the filing.
New notes find their own folder. Every move is logged and undoable — the AI is staff, not management.
03 · Ask
Ask your notes anything.
Plain-English questions, answered from your own notes — and every answer cites the notes it came from.
04 · Voice
Speak it. Atlas writes it.
Voice memos become real, written notes — transcribed, titled, and searchable like everything else.
05 · Search
Search that's instant. Even offline.
Full-text search across every note — results as fast as you can type, no connection needed.
06 · Storage
And in daylight? Just files.
Every note is a plain Markdown file that lives on your machine. Open the folder in File Explorer. Read a note in Notepad. In ten years, with or without this app.
07 · Sync
Sync on your terms.
Your own storage bucket, or Clarity Atlas Cloud with zero setup — where a passphrase only you hold encrypts every note before it leaves the device. The AI runs on your keys or through Clarity Atlas Cloud, and the local-only switch keeps any note out of AI entirely.
Take your bearings.
Get Clarity Atlas.
Free while in betaNo account requiredWorks offline
Android installs outside Google Play for now — your phone will ask once. iPhone isn't available yet.
Getting started
How it works
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Install and write
No account, no setup required. Your first note is a Markdown file on your device within a minute.
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Add AI if you want it
Bring your own API keys — guided, step by step — to unlock auto-filing, transcription, and question answering. Or let Clarity Atlas Cloud handle it with zero setup. Skip both and everything else still works.
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Sync across devices
Connect a storage bucket you own, or use Clarity Atlas Cloud, and your vault follows you — desktop, phone, and any machine you add later.
Just the FAQs
Questions people ask
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for. The app writes files on your device and that's the whole relationship. An account only exists if you subscribe to Clarity Atlas Cloud.
What happens to my notes if Clarity Atlas disappears?
Nothing. Your notes are ordinary Markdown files in a folder on your machine. They open in Notepad, VS Code, Obsidian — anything. That's the point.
Is the AI required?
No. Capture, browse, checklists, widgets, and full-text search work with zero configuration and no internet. AI features are opt-in.
Which AI reads my notes, and when?
Only when an AI feature runs — filing a note, answering a question, transcribing a memo — and only the notes involved. Text goes to Anthropic (organizing and answers), Voyage AI (search embeddings), or Deepgram (transcription), on your own API keys or through Clarity Atlas Cloud. Notes you mark local-only are never sent to any AI provider, and nothing is sent at all until you turn AI on.
Where does sync store my data?
Your choice. Bring your own S3-compatible bucket — Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2, whose free tiers comfortably fit a personal vault — and your notes never pass through us. Or use Clarity Atlas Cloud, where notes are encrypted on your device with a passphrase only you hold before they're uploaded, so the stored copies are unreadable without it.
What does "local-only" do?
A per-note switch that guarantees the note is never sent to any AI provider. Set an encryption passphrase and those notes also sync as ciphertext — note text and attachments both. Clarity Atlas Cloud always requires a passphrase, so there everything is encrypted before it leaves your device.
Is it on the Play Store?
Not yet. Android is a beta you install directly from this site, so your phone will ask you to allow it once. A Play Store listing is on the way. iPhone isn't available yet.
What does it cost?
Free while it's in beta. After launch the app stays free with ads, which a one-time purchase removes. AI on your own keys is billed by those providers at cost — typically pennies a day — or Clarity Atlas Cloud bundles AI and sync into one subscription.