Beauty

The making of Beauty

Changelog.

A little more polish. A little less friction. Every stone in its place.

Beauty 1.1

Beauty 1.1. We polished the marble. The Senate took full credit.

  1. 01

    Swifter scrolls. Smoother typing in long notes, with fixes for undo, cursor movement, tables, and quotes.

  2. 02

    Order in the forum. Highlight text from the formatting toolbar and indent lists with a swipe or the new toolbar controls. Even a shopping list deserves a little gravitas.

  3. 03

    Find your lost scrolls. Faster search, better matches for word variations, and steadier results while you type. No archaeological dig required.

  4. 04

    The gallery is open. View images full screen, zoom in, and enjoy smoother previews with less page jumping while they load.

  5. 05

    Stronger aqueducts. More resilient saves and iCloud sync, including a fix for sync appearing switched off after an upgrade.

  6. 06

    Small details, imperial standards. Cleaner search headers, easier renaming, and tidier toolbar controls.

Beauty 1.0

Beauty 1.0. Launch.

  1. 01

    Your notes are a folder. Plain Markdown files on your own disk. Open them in any editor, back them up, or walk away with them. No proprietary vault.

  2. 02

    Nothing to sign in to. No account, no ads. Beauty opens straight to your library and keeps working when the network is gone.

  3. 03

    Everywhere you write. One editor for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web, with the same typing, formatting, and search on each.

  4. 04

    The whole dialect, rendered as you type. Headings, nested and task lists, quotes, tables you can move, code in 26 languages, KaTeX formulas, Mermaid diagrams, footnotes, and images filed beside the note.

  5. 05

    A page worth reading. Four typefaces, four rhythms, page or flat surfaces, and day or night themes. Collapse the toolbar and the page is only the page.

  6. 06

    Search that stays home. A local index finds words, phrases, and file paths as you type. On supported Apple devices, related results and image text come from on-device models. Queries never reach a server.

  7. 07

    Saves you can trust. Every save is staged, verified, and swapped in, with up to two hundred automatic versions to compare or restore.

  8. 08

    Two devices, one page. Send a link and write together live, peer to peer, with no server in the middle.

  9. 09

    Out again, cleanly. Take any note out again as PDF, HTML, Markdown, or a zip. Nothing is locked in.

  10. 10

    Your iCloud, not ours. With Beauty Maximus, notes, folders, images, version history, and page preferences sync through your own iCloud account. A conflict keeps both versions.