Fully featured. Never cluttered.
Catchlight is small on the surface and deep underneath. Here’s everything it does, and, because we’ve nothing to hide, why we built each piece the way we did.
One thing. Everything.
One kind of thing that becomes whatever your thought needs.
The Take
For you
You capture the thought instead of losing it while you decide where it goes.
For us
It’s the whole thesis. Get this one thing right and we don’t need fifty features to paper over it.
Shape a Take in place
For you
Editing feels calm, and you never lose your place in the list.
For us
No modes is a craft signal you feel but rarely see elsewhere.
The Obie
For you
The thing that actually matters stops drowning in the pile.
For us
One elevated thing is a small, ownable idea nobody else has named.
Before you’ve even unlocked.
A thought arrives when it arrives. Catch it before you’ve opened anything.
Lock Screen, before Face ID
For you
The fastest thing an app can do is not make you open it. The thought is down before it is gone.
For us
The most concrete proof we’re more than another notes app.
Widgets, Action button, Control Centre
For you
Capture is wherever your thumb already is.
For us
Quick capture is the battleground, and we win it.
Siri and Shortcuts
For you
Hands-free capture, and it fits the way you already work.
For us
Meeting people in their habits, not asking them to change.
A fact, not a setting.
Privacy you can switch on isn’t privacy. This is built in.
No account, zero-knowledge
For you
Your notes are yours, not a row in someone’s database.
For us
It’s the promise the whole company stands on. Break it and there’s no reason for us to exist.
Your 12-word Privacy Phrase
For you
Nobody can read your notes without it, and that includes us.
For us
The honest trade at the heart of real privacy, made into something you can hold.
Real, named encryption
For you
Encryption that means what you think it means.
For us
We name the exact stack because we’ve nothing to fudge. Precision is the proof.
Offline-first
For you
Faster, calmer, and less of you leaving the building.
For us
On-device by default is what makes the privacy real.
Spotlight, off by default
For you
Convenience is a switch you control, not a default you have to discover.
For us
“You decide” over “we decided for you”, the whole ethic in one setting.
No hostages.
The strongest test of a private app is what happens when you leave.
Sync through a folder you own
For you
Your data sits somewhere you already trust, and it survives us.
For us
If Considus vanished tomorrow, your Takes wouldn’t notice. A test we actually pass.
Export as plain Markdown
For you
Your writing is always yours to walk away with, whole.
For us
The proof we don’t need to trap you to keep you.
Never locked out
For you
A decade of thinking never sits behind a paywall.
For us
It costs us a little leverage and buys a lot of trust. Worth it.
Everything else it does.
The same care, all the way down.