Before you install Stilos

Stilos is a notes app that also keeps your to-do lists, grocery lists and recipes, with a calendar to see them by date. Its most distinctive feature is Organize, which sorts a grocery list by store aisle in one press. The features page covers each part.

Yes. Stilos is free today, with no trial period, no card and no account. Organizations, cloud storage and sync are still being built, and none of them is on sale.

Stilos is built for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac computers with Apple chips, Windows and Linux. The downloads page shows which of these you can get right now.

Stilos is made by a small team that answers its own mail. You can reach us through the contact page or at support@stilos.app.

Tell us through the contact page, in plain words: what you do today and what you wish happened. A real person reads every message.

No. There is no account and no sign-up. Stilos never asks for your name, email address or phone number. The first time you open it, you agree to the terms and choose whether to set a password.

On your own phone or computer, and nowhere else. Stilos works with no connection, and nothing you write is sent to us. The page on private notes explains this in full.

No. Today your notes exist only on your device, and we hold no copy of them. Cloud storage and sync are planned for later; the privacy page says how those will work, and it will be updated before either is switched on.

Today, if the phone is lost or broken and you have not saved a backup, the notes on it are gone. We have no copy and cannot restore them. If you have a backup file kept somewhere else, you can restore it on a new device.

Open Settings and choose Save a backup. Stilos writes all your notes into one file, which you can keep wherever you like: another drive, another device, or a storage service you already use. The file stays locked and opens only with your password or your recovery key.

Use the recovery key you were given when you set the password. It lets you choose a new one. If you have lost both the password and the recovery key, your notes cannot be opened by anyone, including us.

Not yet. Sync is being built and is described on the coming soon page. For now each device has its own notes. To move everything to a new device, save a backup on the old one and choose Restore a backup on the new one.

Type or paste a grocery list in any order and press Organize. Stilos groups the items by store aisle, using a dictionary of about 59,000 products and brands that is part of the app. It works on grocery lists only. See how Organize works.

There is no import tool yet. You can paste text into a note, and a list pasted into a grocery or to-do list is split into separate items. Restore a backup opens Stilos backup files only. If you need to bring notes in from a particular app, tell us which one.

Yes, in two ways. Any single note can be saved as a text file that other apps can open; that file is no longer locked, so look after it. Save a backup saves everything in one locked file, which is meant to be restored into Stilos.

On a phone or tablet, yes. On a computer, a reminder appears only while Stilos is open. The page on to-do lists and reminders has the details.