OneBoat is the front-door inbox for your iPhone. Share anything from any app, let on-device AI sort it, and find it again instantly — all without an account or the cloud.
Screenshots, links, PDFs, files, notes — share from any app and it lands in your inbox in 3 seconds.
OCR reads your photos, auto-tags them (Travel / Shopping / To-Read), and writes a summary — on your phone.
Set deadlines, get a 9 PM #todo digest, and geo-fence pings when you're near a saved place.
Four real moments where something important vanished inside a phone — and how OneBoat gets it back in 3 seconds.
Friday night, Emily screenshots a meal-prep list from Instagram and tells herself "I'll grab these tomorrow." Now she's at the dairy cooler, swiping through 2,317 photos. Six minutes later she gives up and shops from memory — the oat milk never makes it home.
The list is still on her phone. It's just not findable.
Share → Add. OCR makes the photo searchable, tagged #grocery. When she's near the store, a ping brings it back. 3 seconds.
David spent 40 minutes hunting one receipt — a ¥480 dinner from August. He remembers the food, not the date. The camera roll sorts by date, not by memory, so the search goes nowhere. He closes the report without it.
A real expense, gone forever. Because the date was the only way to look.
On-device AI reads the text right off the photo. Search "dinner" — or just "480" — and it's there in 3 seconds.
Rachel needs a piece she saved three months ago — the one about LLM inference costs. She remembers the argument, not the title. Bookmark folders don't search content; the chat archive is a black hole. Twenty-five minutes of scrolling, then a full Google re-search from scratch.
She found the article. She lost 25 minutes and her flow.
Every saved link gets a title, a summary and tags — all searchable. One query, exact hit, straight back to the source.
James has 213 restaurants saved across two apps. Tonight, standing in the cold with his girlfriend, he needs one nearby — that's open. No filter, no distance, no order. Ten minutes of thumbing while she sighs. They end up at the usual place.
213 saved places. Zero usable ones.
Save once, tag #restaurant, filter by distance — get pinged when you're in the neighborhood. Decided in 3 seconds.
OneBoat doesn't replace your notes app — it's the inbox in front of it. Fragments land here first; deep work stays in Notion, Obsidian or Apple Notes.
Images, links, files, text, audio, even PDFs and contacts. Any app → Share → Add to OneBoat. Done.
Automatic OCR, categories, tags and summaries — powered by Apple frameworks, running 100% on your device.
Deadline reminders, a 9 PM evening digest for #todo items, and daily summaries of what you saved.
Saved a grocery list? Get pinged when you're near that store. Your saves meet you where you are.
Home-screen widgets, Siri Shortcuts, an iMessage extension and Spotlight search — use it without opening the app.
Filter by type, tag, source and time. Full-text search over titles, content, summaries and tags.
No import steps, no tagging chores, no "where should I put this?" moments.
In any app, tap the Share button and choose "Add to OneBoat". It's saved before you can forget it.
On-device AI reads the content, adds smart tags, a category and a summary — automatically, privately.
Search, filter, or ask Spotlight. Tap the reminder and jump straight back to the exact item.
We built OneBoat the way we'd want it: local storage, on-device intelligence, and zero surveillance. Your personal data isn't anyone's business — not even ours.
No. OneBoat is the front-door inbox for your notes app. It catches the fragments — screenshots, links, files — so you never lose them, and you keep doing deep work in Notion, Obsidian or Apple Notes. They're partners, not competitors.
All data is stored locally in the app sandbox (SQLite). Optional iCloud backup is available for device-to-device safety. Nothing is uploaded to any server.
No. All AI features — OCR, categorization, summaries, tags — run on-device using Apple's frameworks. There is no server call and no network upload.
OneBoat requires iOS 16 or later and runs on iPhone. Widgets need iOS 16.2+.
Yes, anytime — in the App Store's Subscriptions settings. You keep full access until the end of the current period. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available if you prefer to pay once.
No account, no email, no password. Install and start saving.