Your Roadmap to an Organized Life
Dump everything in — thoughts, photos, voice memos, confirmation numbers — without stopping to organize any of it. Optional AI titles it, files it, and answers your questions from it. And every note stays a plain Markdown file on your machine: yours forever, with or without the app.
Free while in beta · No account required · Works completely offline
Actual screenshots — Windows and Android, same vault.
All the leverage of AI. None of the blind trust.
Most AI note apps ask you to pour your life into their cloud and hope for the best. Most "own your files" apps make you do all the organizing yourself. Clarity Atlas refuses to make you choose.
AI does the filing
Capture without ceremony. The AI titles your notes, tags them, and sorts them into your folders — every action logged and undoable. Sorting alone gives you hours back.
Ask instead of digging
"What did the contractor quote for the deck?" Get answers pulled from your own notes, with the source notes cited — no scrolling, no remembering where you put it.
Plain files, forever
Every note is an ordinary Markdown file in a folder you can see. Any editor opens them today; any editor will open them in 30 years. No account, no lock-in — your vault is already the export.
Yours even offline
Internet down? Provider outage? Your notes are still sitting on your device — already sorted, because the AI did it for you — and on-device search finds them instantly.
"I dump every piece of information I think I might ever need into Clarity Atlas and never look at the notes again — I just ask for it. But I also know that if I need them, they're right there: plain files on my machine, sorted, searchable, mine."
— Daniel Hodgins, creator of Clarity Atlas
A second brain that keeps up with a busy life
Capture in seconds
Type it, photograph it, or say it. Home-screen widgets capture a note or a voice memo without even opening the app.
Voice memos become real notes
Rambling recordings come back as clean, titled, legible notes — with the original audio kept alongside.
optional · uses your AI keysFiles itself
The AI reads new captures and files them into your folders, with every action logged and undoable. Or keep it manual — your call.
optional · uses your AI keysAsk your notes anything
Question answering grounded in your own notes — "what did the contractor quote for the deck?" — with sources cited.
optional · uses your AI keysSearch that's instant
Full-text search over thousands of notes, entirely on-device, ready the moment the app opens. No connection required.
Checklists on your home screen
Pin any note or checklist as an Android widget. Tick items off without opening the app; changes sync everywhere.
Notes that clean up after themselves
Flag short-term notes — confirmation numbers, parking spots — to auto-delete in a week, a month, or on a date you pick.
Sync on your terms
Point desktop and phone at the same bucket and they stay in step — conflict-safe by design, with deletions requiring proof of intent.
A real privacy switch
Mark a note local-only and it is never sent to any AI service, and syncs only in encrypted form — attachments included.
How it works
Install and write
No account, no setup required. Your first note is a Markdown file on your device within a minute.
Add AI if you want it
Bring your own API keys (guided, step-by-step) to unlock auto-filing, transcription, and question answering. Skip it and everything else still works.
Sync across devices
Connect a storage bucket you own and your vault follows you — desktop, phone, and any machine you add later.
See it work
No staging, no speed-up — this is the app in real time.
Get Clarity Atlas
Free while in beta. Windows today, Android in beta, Play Store listing on the way.
Windows
Unsigned beta build: Windows SmartScreen may ask you to confirm — choose “More info → Run anyway.”
Android
Currently in closed beta. The Play Store listing is in progress — check back soon.
Questions people actually 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.
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 and run on API keys you bring, so your notes go only to providers you chose.
Where does sync store my data?
In an S3-compatible storage bucket that you own (Cloudflare R2 and Backblaze B2 both work, with free tiers that comfortably fit a personal vault). We never see your notes — we don't run servers that touch them.
What does "local-only" do?
A per-note switch that guarantees the note is never sent to any AI provider, and if you sync, it travels only as encrypted data — note text and attachments both.
What does it cost?
It's free during the beta. When it launches, the core local-first app will stay affordable — and any AI usage on your own keys is billed by your provider at cost, typically pennies a day.