Apple Notes is a great scratchpad. Pano is a memory layer: it answers questions, connects dots across your notes, and acts on what you save.
Free for 30 days. Private to you, never used to train AI.
| Feature | Pano | Apple Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CAPTURE | ||
| Quick text capture | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Voice-to-text capture | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Camera capture | —Coming soon (iOS app) | ✓Yes |
| Rich text, tables, drawings | — | ✓Yes |
| FIND | ||
| Natural language search | ✓AI answers | — |
| Ask questions about your notes | ✓Yes | — |
| Cross-note reasoning | ✓Connects dots across all notes | — |
| ORGANIZE | ||
| Automatic categorization | ✓20 categories | — |
| Shared memory spaces | ✓Coming soon | —Notes folders only |
| ACT | ||
| Act on saved info (calendar, drafts) | ✓Connected, expanding | — |
| Cross-app memory (Gmail, Calendar, and more) | ✓Yes | — |
| TRUST | ||
| Works without Apple ID | ✓Yes | — |
| No training on your data | ✓Never | ✓Yes |
| Data privacy | ✓Encrypted in transit. Never used to train AI. Never sold. | ✓End-to-end encrypted via iCloud Keychain |
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Apple Notes offers end-to-end encryption via iCloud Keychain. Pano encrypts all data in transit and never uses your notes to train AI models or shares them with advertisers.
Apple Notes is genuinely excellent at what it does: fast capture, clean interface, iCloud sync, rich text. It has earned its place on a billion devices. But it stops at storing. Pano goes further: it reads what you saved, connects it to everything else, and gives you one grounded answer when you ask. The intelligence is not just in the capture. It is in the recall.
Bulk import from Apple Notes is on our near-term roadmap. At launch you can paste notes one at a time. Most users start fresh and build their Panorama going forward.
Yes, as a web app today on all Apple devices. Native iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps are in development. Everything syncs automatically.
Pano syncs everything through your account, accessible from any browser. No iCloud dependency, no Apple ID required.
Yes. Only you can read your notes. They are encrypted in transit and stored securely. We never sell your data or share it with advertisers. OpenAI processes notes to power search and answers but does not use them for training.
Every account starts with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. After the trial: $8 a month or $72 a year ($6/month). Current pricing is always shown in the app before you subscribe.
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