The thought always turns up at the worst moment. Get it down before it’s gone, find it again when you need it. No account to make, and nothing leaves your devices.
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Tonight’s groceries and the restaurant you keep meaning to try are not the same kind of thing. One needs finishing. One needs keeping. A board in Slate can be either, and you decide which.
The things with a deadline, and the things that just need doing at some point. Today, tomorrow, whenever. Nothing vanishes the second you tick it. It waits until you decide you’re finished with it.
You shouldn’t have to decide what kind of thing it is before you can write it down. One field takes the errand, the link, the half-sentence you’ll understand later. This board is real. Put something on it and cross it off.
Press Enter to add it. Tap a circle to finish it.
Photos and filesThe photo of where you parked. The PDF someone sent. The screenshot you’ll need at the counter. All on the board, not scattered across four other apps.
Real linksIn six months you won’t remember the address. You’ll remember it was the pasta one. Saved links keep their title and their preview, and that’s enough to find it.
Three errands, a deadline and a maybe, all in one breath at a red light. Ramble listens and hands them back as separate items for you to look over. Nothing is saved until you say it is. It runs on Apple Intelligence, on your device unless you send it further.
Send the studio proposal tomorrow. Pick up flowers on the way home. And keep Saturday free for a long walk.
Uses Apple Intelligence on this device. The deeper pass is a separate choice and uses Apple’s Private Cloud Compute.
Most note apps ask you to trust a company with the things you write down. Slate never receives them. Your writing lives on your devices and syncs through your own iCloud, the same way your photos do. We could not read it if we wanted to.
Give it a date and a time and Slate will tell you. Send a copy to Calendar or Reminders if that’s where you actually look. Slate copies it once and then leaves it alone: it won’t quietly rewrite your calendar later.
You’ll cross off a few hundred things this year. It may as well look like you did it. Pick a line and a color. This is the real one, drawn at the real speed.
Jot it on your phone in the queue, finish it at your desk, and it’s already there. Slate was written separately for each device rather than once and stretched to fit, so the Mac gets menus and windows that behave like a Mac, and the iPad opens wide with the board beside whatever you’re reading.
Start free and stay free if three boards cover it. Pro is for when they don’t. Pay monthly, yearly, or once.
Three active boards, as many items as you like, syncing across every device on your iCloud account.
No payment, nothing to cancel, no countdown running in the background.
Get SlateEverything in Free, without the three-board ceiling. Pick how you pay.
A year of Slate Pro, billed once. Renews annually until you cancel.
Get SlatePrices shown are in US dollars; the App Store shows your own local price before you buy. Apple handles billing. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew.
A To-do board is for things you need to finish. It has date sections and a circle you can mark done. A Keep board is for notes, links, and files you want again, so it has no done state. Both hold the same kinds of content. The type is set when you create the board.
Yes. Boards are yours. Create as many as your plan allows, name them whatever you like, and rename them later. The names you see in these screenshots are just one person's setup.
Yes. Slate Pro Lifetime is a single payment of $29.99 that never renews and stays with your Apple Account. Anyone can buy it, not just people who already subscribe. Monthly and yearly are there if you would rather not pay it all at once.
No. Slate does not create an account. Your items stay on the device. If you use iCloud, they also stay in your private iCloud database.
Yes. Ongoing sync does not need Slate Pro. It can restore content that has already reached iCloud. It cannot restore local changes that never uploaded.
Your boards, items, and files stay. You can still edit them. Existing Smart Boards and repeat schedules keep working. You need Pro to add more than three active boards, create or change Smart Boards, use templates, change repeat rules, and run Ramble.
Ramble turns speech or a saved note into suggested items. You review each suggestion, its board, and its date before anything is saved. It needs a supported device and Apple Intelligence. Availability depends on your system.
No. Add to Reminders and Add to Calendar make a separate copy. Later edits do not move between apps. Files and Slate alerts stay in Slate.
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