Pear Notes - Private AI & Sync

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Pear Notes is a private, offline-first notebook. Your notes are encrypted on your device and sync directly between your own devices — no cloud account, no server holding your data, nothing to leak. On-device AI handles voice typing, transcripts, translation and summaries without sending a single word off your phone. PRIVATE AI THAT RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE Every AI feature is optional, off until you turn it on, and runs entirely on your hardware. Each one downloads its model once and then works offline, in airplane mode, forever. • Voice typing — speak and your words appear in the note as you talk. • Transcribe recordings — turn a voice memo into text. • Extract text — copy text out of photos, scans and PDFs. • Describe images — get a caption for a photo. • Ask, write and summarize — ask a question about a note, summarize it, pull out key points, suggest a title, or fix, shorten and rewrite selected text. • Translate — 48 languages, to and from English, each downloaded on demand. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no API key, no usage limits. ZERO-SERVER PEER-TO-PEER SYNC Sync your notebook across phone, tablet and computer without your data ever resting on a third-party server. Pear Notes uses a decentralised multi-device sync engine that merges changes locally. There is no central database and no coordinator — the notes remain completely yours. CRYPTOGRAPHIC DEVICE PAIRING Link a new device with a blind pairing handshake that never exposes your identity to onlookers. Scan the pairing QR code, confirm the matching identity keys, and the devices hold a permanent encrypted channel. Invites expire automatically. LOCKED NOTES Lock any note behind Face ID, Touch ID or a password you choose. Locked notes stay locked on every paired device, are hidden from screenshots and the app switcher, and the password is never stored — only a verifier derived from it. WRITE, SCAN AND RECORD • A document scanner that turns pages into a single PDF. • A voice recorder with playback, embedded straight into the note. • Photos, videos, PDFs and files attached inline, with previews. • Share from any other app straight into a note. • Folders, pinned notes, search, and a Recently Deleted that holds notes for 30 days. • Note history showing what each device changed, with the ability to recover a discarded edit. • Elegant typography (Lora, Inter, Outfit, Newsreader, IBM Plex Mono), light and dark themes, and adjustable text size. ENCRYPTED BACKUPS YOU CONTROL Export the whole vault into one secured and encrypted .pnbk file with a password only you know. The password is never stored or transmitted and there is no reset — so you can keep the backup anywhere, and nobody, including us, can open it without you. PERMISSIONS • Microphone — voice notes and voice typing. Audio never leaves the device. • Camera — document scanning, photos, and scanning pairing QR codes. • Photos — attaching images you pick, and saving images you export. • Face ID / Touch ID — unlocking locked notes.