Move notes both ways — Markdown into Apple Notes with formatting intact, and Apple Notes back out to clean .md files. Turn your Apple Notes into a Markdown folder your AI can read. No copy-paste, no mangling.
Bring Markdown into Apple Notes, or pull your Apple Notes out to clean .md files. Point Notebound at a folder, an Obsidian vault, or Notes itself — no account, no setup.
Notebound converts your formatting faithfully in both directions — headings, lists, code, tables, checklists and links all survive the trip.
Land everything in Apple Notes, intact — or get a tidy folder of Markdown ready for Obsidian, git, or any AI — with an honest report of anything that couldn't carry over.
Point at a folder or Obsidian vault and Notebound migrates it straight into Apple Notes — headings, lists, code, tables and links intact, not flattened to plain text. No copy-paste, no terminal.
Apple Notes has no “export to folder.” Notebound reads your notes for you and writes clean Markdown files — one tidy .md per note, ready for Obsidian, git, or backup.
Markdown is what Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and local models read natively — no tokens or context wasted on Apple’s proprietary format. Turn your whole brain of Apple Notes into a folder of .md you can hand to any AI, index, or version with git.
No account, no telemetry, zero network calls — either direction. Your notes never leave the machine. One-time purchase, yours forever.
| Notebound | Copy-paste by hand | Generic import | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preserves headings, lists, code & tables | ✓ | ✗ | ~ |
| Exports Apple Notes out to .md files | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Leaves notes AI-ready (clean Markdown) | ✓ | ✗ | ~ |
| Migrates whole folders in one batch | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Imports images & attachments | ✓ | ~ | ✗ |
| Wikilinks carried as references | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Runs fully on-device, zero network | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Free analysis before you pay | ✓ | free | ~ |
| One-time purchase | ✓ | free | varies |
Notebound's whole interface is localized into 8 languages — it follows your Mac and speaks your language out of the box. No setup, nothing to switch on.
Yes. Notebound moves Markdown into Apple Notes and exports your Apple Notes back out to clean .md files. Pick a direction and convert — the formatting is preserved either way.
Yes — this is the part Apple never built. Apple Notes has no “export to folder,” so Notebound reads your notes for you and writes one tidy Markdown file per note: headings, lists, checklists, code and links intact, folder structure recreated where it can. The result is a plain .md folder you can open in Obsidian, back up, or commit to git.
Markdown is what Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and local models read natively and efficiently — no tokens or context burned on Apple’s proprietary note format. Once your Apple Notes are clean .md files, you can hand the whole folder to any AI, index it, or feed it to a local model — your Apple brain, finally readable by your tools.
Headings, bold and italic, ordered and unordered lists, checklists, code (inline and blocks), real tables with borders, links and images — in both directions. It speaks the Obsidian dialect too — frontmatter is dropped cleanly and tags carry over. The goal is your notes look the same on the other side as they did before.
Wherever you point it. Going in, every converted note lands in Apple Notes on your Mac — folder structure recreated where it can, syncing to your other Apple devices through iCloud like any other note. Going out, you get a folder of .md files on disk, ready to use anywhere.
Notebound is free to use with a built-in limit on how many notes a single conversion moves — and there's no time limit, ever. You can always analyse your whole library for free, in either direction, to see exactly what will be preserved or changed. Buying once unlocks unlimited, full conversions both ways.
No. Notebound only ever reads your source — whether that's Markdown files or Apple Notes — and only ever creates new things: new notes in Apple Notes, or new .md files on disk. It never edits or deletes what you already have. Your originals stay exactly as they were, in both directions.
Apple Notes has no public API for linking one note to another, so navigable note-to-note links aren't possible. Notebound converts your [[wikilinks]] into clear text references instead, so you can see what was linked — we'd rather be honest than pretend they're clickable.
No. One-time purchase of $9.99, yours forever. No recurring fees, no account, no renewals. Pay once and convert as much as you like, in either direction.
Never. Everything runs on your Mac — there's no account, no sign-up and zero telemetry, and Notebound makes no network calls at all. Your notes never leave the machine, going in or coming out. Your “AI-ready” .md folder stays yours; you decide if and when it ever touches an AI.
Completely. All conversion happens on-device, so Notebound works with the network unplugged. No cloud, no servers, no dependency on anyone's API — just your Mac doing the work.
Yes — a 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. And since you can analyse your vault for free before paying, you'll know what to expect first. Payments are handled by Paddle; just reply to your receipt and we'll sort it out.
Found a bug, or wish it did one more thing? Tell us — every message goes straight to the people who build Notebound. No account, no tracking.
