From any app
Tap Share, then IKI. Links, photos, PDFs and videos, up to six at a time.
Made for iOS 27
Reads your saves.Keeps you in control.Leaves you the files.
IKI is a private library for your iPhone. Save links, screenshots, voice notes, PDFs and video files. Read available public Reels or YouTube subtitles, ask questions with sources and keep your saves as files you own.
Library
AllArticleVideoScreenshotVoice
12 HOURS@sourdough.daily
Three things I learned about sourdough
0:09 · Today
Voice
Idea for the Lisbon talk
0:41 · Today
PDF
Lecture 7: Entropy
Why heat only flows one way, and what it costs.
PDF · 18 pages
the bakery on Rua da Rosa?yes! the one with the cardamom bunsopens at 8
The bakery on Rua da Rosa
Screenshot · Sep 9
Article
The Library Rules
Why your saves should be files you own.
Private by definitionFiles outlive apps
iki.place · 6 min
BOARDING PASSLIS → OPOGate 1407:40Seat 12AZone 2
Boarding pass, Lisbon to Porto
Screenshot · Today
KNIFE SKILLS
Knife skills in four minutes
4:12 · Sep 10
Plenty of apps keep what you save. Some can read it, on their servers and behind their login. IKI reads it on your iPhone and hands you the files.
01 · reads your saves
It reads your saves.
IKI extracts article and PDF text, reads screenshots and transcribes voice notes. Shared video files and available public Reels get speech and sampled-frame text. YouTube links use available subtitles.
SpeechOn-screen textEnglish, Russian, Portuguese
02 · keeps you in control
It keeps you in control.
Reading and search use files on your iPhone. Supported local AI works there too; optional cloud features have separate data flows, explained in the privacy policy.
Local filesOptional cloud featuresClear data flows
03 · leaves you the files
It leaves you the files.
Each save has a markdown file you can read; imported files keep their originals alongside it. Open the folder in Files or Obsidian and keep your own backup. Your files do not depend on our service.
MarkdownOriginals keptiCloud Drive, if you want it
Video
12 HOURS@sourdough.daily
SOURDOUGH
12 HOURS
AUTOLYSE
Video Sep 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Three things I learned about sourdough
Reading the video — sound and captions will appear here.
Three things I learned about sourdough. First, the starter needs twelve hours. Second, cold water slows it down. Third, never skip the autolyse. The flour needs an hour with the water before the salt goes in.
On screen
SOURDOUGH
12 HOURS
AUTOLYSE
12 HOURS
AUTOLYSE
Ask thisDeep ParseCopy link
Ask
LibraryHow long does the dough rest before the salt?
About an hour. The step is called autolyse: flour and water sit together before the salt goes in [1]. Your Sunday voice note says the same: an hour, then salt [2].
1Three things I learned about sourdoughReel · @sourdough.daily · 0:07
2Bread notes, SundayVoice note · 1:12
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Three things I learned about sourdough
A folder in Files · 4 items
12 HOURS
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Three things I learned about sourdough
Three things I learned about sourdough. First, the starter needs twelve hours. Second, cold water slows it down. Third, never skip the autolyse: the flour needs an hour with the water…
On screen
Sourdough · 12 hours · Autolyse
01 · reads your saves
It reads your saves.
IKI extracts article and PDF text, reads screenshots and transcribes voice notes. Shared video files and available public Reels get speech and sampled-frame text. YouTube links use available subtitles.
SpeechOn-screen textEnglish, Russian, Portuguese
02 · keeps you in control
It keeps you in control.
Reading and search use files on your iPhone. Supported local AI works there too; optional cloud features have separate data flows, explained in the privacy policy.
Local filesOptional cloud featuresClear data flows
03 · leaves you the files
It leaves you the files.
Each save has a markdown file you can read; imported files keep their originals alongside it. Open the folder in Files or Obsidian and keep your own backup. Your files do not depend on our service.
MarkdownOriginals keptiCloud Drive, if you want it
how it compares
Others do some of this.
IKI does all of it.
Five things IKI does out of the box, and how the alternatives handle them. Hover a mark for the detail.
| Product | Reads videos | Transcribes voice | Picks up screenshots | Answers with sources | Runs on the phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IKIthe one this page is about | Yes: Video files and available public Reels: speech and sampled-frame text on device. YouTube: available subtitles. | Yes: On the device, in English, Russian and Portuguese | Yes: New screenshots arrive with their text read | Yes: Across everything you saved, with numbered sources | Yes: Apple’s on-device model |
| Apple Notesfree, preinstalled | No: Videos stay attachments | Yes: Audio recordings with transcripts | No: Text in images is searchable once you add them | No: No questions over your notes | Partly: On the device or in Apple’s private cloud |
| Obsidianlocal markdown | No: Videos stay attachments | No: Records audio; no transcription built in | No: No | No: Only with community plugins | No AI built in |
| Notionteam workspace | No: No video transcription | Partly: Audio files in AI Meeting Notes, paid plans | No: You add them yourself | Partly: Notion AI, paid plans | No: Their servers |
| Evernotethe old notebook | Partly: AI Transcribe: speech from MP4 and MOV, up to 60 minutes | Partly: AI Transcribe, in their cloud | Partly: Text in images is searchable once you add them | Partly: AI Assistant on Advanced | No: Their servers |
| mymindvisual save-anything | No: Keeps the video; no transcript | No: No voice notes | Partly: Reads text in images you share in | No: No questions over your saves | No: Their servers |
| Readwise Readerread-later | Partly: YouTube, with transcripts | No: No voice notes | No: No | Partly: One document at a time | No: Their servers |
| Gemini Notebookformerly NotebookLM | Partly: Public YouTube videos with captions; not your own files | Yes: Audio files you upload | No: Images you upload one by one | Partly: One notebook at a time, with citations | No: Google’s cloud |
Yes: YesYesPartly: PartlyPartly, or on paid plansNo: NoNoDoesn’t apply
Video reading: shared files and available public Reels use on-device speech and sampled-frame text recognition. YouTube links use available subtitles. Private or unavailable sources need a shared video file.
Based on each product’s own pages, checked in September 2026, without plugins. Every row links to a full comparison, including where the other app is the better choice.
Stories vanish in a day.Recaps expire in a week.Apps shut down and take your saves with them.Files don’t.
In IKI your saves are markdown files, with imported originals alongside them, on your iPhone or in your own iCloud Drive. Saved library items have no automatic expiry.
anything goes in
Two taps from anywhere.
IKI does the filing.
Reels, Stories, Shorts
Save the video or screen-record the Story, then share it. IKI reads what’s said and what’s on screen.
Screenshots file themselves
Allow photo access once. New screenshots arrive with their text already read.
Voice in the Dynamic Island
Record, lock the phone and keep walking. The phone transcribes it.
A thought on your wrist
Save a thought on Apple Watch. It keeps its original date when it syncs to your iPhone.
Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Add to IKI from the toolbar. Selected text becomes a quote.
Any other browser
Pair Chrome or open iki.place/save. The browser encrypts what you send, and only your phone can read it.
Paper, PDFs, handwriting
Scan pages, add PDFs or write with Apple Pencil. All of it becomes searchable text.
Bring your old library
Exports from Pocket, Safari, Evernote, Raindrop and mymind come in as cards and files.
Or just say it
Siri and Shortcuts, in English, Russian and Portuguese.
find
Find it by
what it said.
Type a word someone said in a reel, a line from a screenshot or a phrase you said to your watch, and IKI finds it.
- By meaning and by exact words. Search runs on the phone, across everything you saved.
- Inside videos and voice notes. Search recognised speech, sampled-frame text and available subtitles.
- From the Home Screen, too. iPhone search looks inside IKI and shows the cover.
Library
autolyse
AUTOLYSE@sourdough.daily
Three things I learned about sourdough
never skip the autolyse. The flour needs an hour
0:09 · Sep 13
Voice
Bread notes, Sunday
“Autolyse for an hour, then salt.”
1:12 · Sep 7
Pain de campagne500 g flour · 390 g water10 g salt · 3 g yeast
Pain de campagne, timings
Screenshot · Aug 30
iphone search · “autolyse”
Three things I learned about sourdoughIKI · …never skip the autolyse…
ask
Ask your library,
not the internet.
Answers come only from what you saved, with numbered sources that open the exact item. If nothing you saved covers the question, IKI tells you so.
- On the device by default. Apple’s model, on your iPhone.
- Relevant passages when the model is unavailable. IKI can assemble an answer from saved text and labels it as an extract.
- Your own Claude key, if you want it. Free on every plan. Your phone talks to Anthropic directly, and only when you ask.
Ask
LibraryHow long does the dough rest before the salt?
About an hour. The step is called autolyse: flour and water sit together before the salt goes in [1]. Your Sunday voice note says the same: an hour, then salt [2].
1Three things I learned about sourdoughReel · @sourdough.daily · 0:07
2Bread notes, SundayVoice note · 1:12
Ask your library…
Ask
LibraryWhat did I save about sleep?
Not in your library: no sources found for this question.
Ask your library…
recap
What did I save
this week?
Recap shows how many things you saved, what they were about and the saves themselves, counted on your phone. Nothing in it expires.
- Today or the last seven days. Grouped by what you saved, not by the app it came from.
- What it was about. Topics found in the saves themselves.
- Then listen, or ask. “Ask about it” limits Ask to these saves.
Recap
DoneToday7 days
23 things saved
September 7 – 13
on 6 different days
What it was about
sourdoughpricinglisbon
Video · 7
12 HOURS
Three things I learned about sourdough
0:09 · Today
LISBON 48H
Two days in Lisbon, on foot
0:58 · Thu
Article · 9
Article
Pricing pages that don’t apologise
Article · Wed
Article
The Library Rules
iki.place · Mon
radio
Listen to
your week.
Radio turns this week’s summaries into a short episode and reads it aloud in a voice that runs on your phone. Lock the screen and keep walking.
- A voice on the device. A neural voice you download, or the system one. No audio is made in the cloud.
- Controls on the Lock Screen. It keeps playing when you leave the app.
Radio
DoneThis week · episode
Your week, read aloud
23 saves · about 9 minutes · on-device voice
Now reading
“Three things about sourdough. The one worth keeping: give the flour an hour with the water before the salt goes in.”
End the episode
the studio
Saving is half of it.
Here’s the other half.
Recall
Questions made from your own saves. Answer in your head, flip the card, and IKI spaces the next one so it sticks.
Topics
What your library turned out to be about, grouped by meaning instead of folders.
Wrapped
Your month or year in saves, as a poster sized for Stories.
Teleprompter and Rehearse
Read any note to camera. Rehearse records you and shows which lines you skipped.
Shelves
Subscribe to a curated shelf. New links arrive as your own files, and they stay if you unsubscribe.
Recipes
One tap turns your saves into a script for camera, five hooks, a briefing or next steps.
Subtitles
Export a timed voice or video transcript as an .srt subtitle file.
Quote cards
Highlight a sentence and share it as an image credited to its source.
Collections, shared as pages
Share a collection as a web page. With a password, your phone encrypts it before upload. Pages can expire.
Translate
Translate any item on the device. The text stays on the phone.
Reader
Five themes, e-ink among them, and highlights that remember the exact sentence.
every screen
iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
and your computer.
The same library on each. iPhone and iPad share it through your iCloud Drive, the watch keeps your recent saves, and any browser can add to it.
iPhone
The whole library, plus widgets, StandBy, the Dynamic Island, Siri and iPhone search.
iPad
A sidebar, keyboard shortcuts and Apple Pencil. Handwriting turns into searchable text, and you can mark up screenshots and PDFs.
Apple Watch
Dictate a thought or check what you saved today. Search works from the watch’s own copy, even with the phone at home.
Mac and any browser
Safari on the Mac has an Add to IKI button. Any other browser can save through iki.place/save and open an encrypted copy of your library at iki.place/library.
privacy
Your files.
Clear choices.
No IKI account is required. Your primary library is local, with optional iCloud sync. Speech, cloud features, purchases and diagnostics have the data flows described in our policy.
Offline reading and search use files already on your device.
Reading, OCR and local searchWork with files already on the device.on device
Speech recognitionIKI transcribes on the device, with supported languages and downloaded models.on device
Apple Private Cloud ComputeNot enabled in the current TestFlight beta.unavailable
Your own Claude keyStraight from your phone to Anthropic, only when you ask. You pay Anthropic, not us.
Deep ParseRequested page address and extracted text are cached by our server for 24 hours.
Library on the webAn encrypted copy for iki.place/library. We store it and can’t read it.
Browser captureEncrypted in the browser; the phone requests deletion after accepting delivery.
Shared pagesOnly what you share. With a password, your phone encrypts it first. Pages can expire.
made for ios 27
Built on what’s new.
Answers on your device
Supported Apple models answer locally. If the model is unavailable, IKI can show relevant passages from your saved text.
It looks at pictures
For a screenshot, the model looks at the picture itself, not only the text on it, when it writes the card and answers.
Screenshots arrive on their own
Take a screenshot while IKI is open and it shows up within seconds.
Handwriting, stroke by stroke
Apple Pencil notes are read from the strokes themselves, not from a picture of them.
Your library on your wrist
Search and listen to the library already synced to your Watch, without an iPhone nearby.
iPhone search stays current
After an iCloud sync or a night of catching up, iOS refreshes IKI’s entries in iPhone search by itself.
for you
Made for how
you save.
for
Students
Record the lecture, screenshot the slides, save the paper. Before the exam, ask your own notes.
See how forCreators
Find imported videos by recognised speech and frame text, or YouTube links by available subtitles.
See how forFounders & builders
Essays, threads, screenshots and voice memos in one place that answers back, with sources.
See how forDesigners
Screenshots file themselves, with the text on them read. Find any one by a word on the screen.
See how forReaders & writers
Articles come in whole and stay yours as files, even if the site disappears.
See how forPrivate work
Interviews, case notes and source documents, with on-device processing and optional cloud controls.
See howcoming from somewhere else?
Side by side.
Each page says where the other app is the better choice, and how to bring your library over if it isn’t.
vs mymindvisual save-anythingvs Readwise Readerread-latervs Notionteam workspacevs Obsidianlocal markdownvs Apple Notesthe built-in onevs Gemini Notebookformerly NotebookLMvs Siri RecapApple Watch recapsvs Evernotethe old notebookvs Raindropbookmarksafter Pocketshut down in 2025vs AI assistantsChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
pricing
Free is the whole library.
Pro is for people who use a lot of recipes. Your files, Ask, Deep Parse and your own Claude key are free.
Free
$0
No time limit.
- Unlimited saves
- On-device summaries, cards, search and Ask
- Supported video, voice notes and screenshots, read on the phone
- Recap, Radio, Recall, Topics and Wrapped
- Deep Parse and your own Claude key
- Three recipes you choose, run as often as you like
Pro
$6.99/month
or $49 a year
- Every recipe, as often as you like
- Everything in Free
- The launch price, locked in
- Priority support from the people who wrote the code
Founder
$99 once
500 seats, Pro for life
- Pro for life, including everything Pro adds later
- One payment, no subscription
- A founder badge in your library
- A direct line to the makers
questions
What people ask first.
Where do my files live?
In a folder on your iPhone that you can open in the Files app, or in iCloud Drive › IKI › Library if you switch sync on. Each save has a markdown file. Imported videos, audio, screenshots and PDFs keep their originals alongside it.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad have the full app. Apple Watch records and dictates thoughts, shows what you saved today and searches your recent saves. Safari on the Mac saves pages with one click, and any other browser can save through iki.place/save.
Is anything ever sent to your servers?
Deep Parse, web mirroring, browser delivery and shared pages use our services. Optional Claude answers and purchases also involve providers. The privacy page explains the content, controls and retention for each flow.
What happens to my library if IKI shuts down?
Nothing. It’s already plain files on your own device, and they open without us. When Pocket shut down in 2025, people had a few months to export a decade of saves. With IKI there’s nothing to export.
Can I bring my Pocket, Evernote or Raindrop library?
Yes. IKI reads Pocket exports (CSV and HTML), Evernote .enex files, Raindrop backups, mymind exports and your Safari Reading List. Imports run on the phone, with progress in the Dynamic Island.
Which languages?
English, Russian and Portuguese. The app, voice transcription and text in images all handle the three, mixed in one library.
Start with one save.
Setup takes two minutes, and there’s nothing to organise afterwards.
Free · iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac · Made for iOS 27