ideaShell for iOS 18

After a month of development and a few rounds of iteration, ideaShell brings a batch of significant features — and pairs them with iOS 18 to make capture better still.

📱 iOS 18 highlights

In this iOS 18 update:

We added Control Center controls that launch the app directly, plus shortcuts for voice and text capture. There are also more Lock Screen widget options.

The app icon now supports dark and tinted modes. Alongside the default icon, the two earlier ones (Blur and Bate) have been updated too, and both are available.

With Apple Intelligence on the way, we will follow up with support for things like image generation and rewriting. Those will connect cleanly with Siri and Apple Intelligence — more in a future update.

Recent updates

☁️ Cloud sync

Open your notes anywhere. With cloud sync on, everything syncs to your connected devices, so no idea gets left behind.

⌚️ Apple Watch app

Capture on the move. Raise your wrist and recording starts; AI transcribes it back to your phone without any effort from you.

💻 iPad and Mac apps

ideaShell is now built for bigger screens, moving cleanly between all your Apple devices.

🎚️ Better sidebar

A leaner navigation bar with smart titles makes browsing and managing notes easier.

🤖 AI assistant

Pull down from the home screen to talk to AI right away.

Everything else

• Custom topics: Group notes into topics with tags, for a clearer view.
• Auto-tagging: AI files notes using the tags you have defined first.
• Append: Keep adding to an existing note without breaking your train of thought.
• Sketching: Draw an idea out with the sketch tools.
• New sorting: Timeline view for quickly revisiting the key moments.
• Long recordings: Anything over ten minutes gets a summary and a timeline.
• Ask AI：You can now talk things through with AI by voice, no typing.
• iOS 18: The icon supports dark mode, and the app opens from Control Center.
• More sign-in options: Several ways to sign in, whichever suits you.
• Lifetime: We launched a lifetime option, as a thank-you to our early users.

Update now

Do not miss out — update ideaShell and try the improvements that make capture easier.

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We hope ideaShell stays a tool you can rely on for your ideas.