Free Note App for iPhone With Sign in With Apple — No Traditional Account Required

Nemos is a free note app for iPhone and iPad that does not require a traditional user account. There is no email address to provide, no password to remember, no verification email to click, no phone number to enter, no marketing newsletter to opt out of. The only authentication is Sign in with Apple, which means your Apple ID is the only identifier Nemos ever sees. All data sync happens through your personal iCloud account via Apple's CloudKit, so Nemos operates no user-account database — there is literally no account system to maintain because the Apple ecosystem already handles identity.

Related Pages

For the privacy architecture in full, see the private note app page. For the Apple Intelligence foundation, see Apple Intelligence apps. For verifying legitimacy before signing in, see is Nemos legit.

Built for privacy-conscious users

No email. No password. No account. Your Apple ID is all Nemos knows about you.

Nemos is a free note app for iPhone and iPad that doesn't require you to create an account, hand over your email, verify a phone number, or agree to marketing emails. Sign in with your Apple ID for iCloud sync and you're done. Zero onboarding friction, zero marketing emails, zero abandoned-account newsletter lists. Your Apple ID is the only identifier Nemos ever sees.

Free to join. No spam. We'll notify you when Nemos is ready.

|By the Nemos team

Sound familiar?

If you've felt any of these frustrations, you're not alone. Privacy-conscious users, minimalists, and anyone tired of creating new accounts for every app deal with this every day.

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Every 'free' note app now requires an email address, phone verification, a password, marketing email opt-in, and agreement to terms you can't actually read. That's 5 minutes of friction before you can write your first note.

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Evernote, Notion, Mem, Reflect, and even Google Keep want your email because they need it for user accounts, marketing lists, retargeting ads, and eventually selling upgrades. You're being farmed.

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You already have an Apple ID that authenticates you across the Apple ecosystem. Handing over an email address to a third-party app is pointless friction when the Apple ecosystem already handles identity.

Here's how Nemos helps

Nemos was built to solve exactly these problems — automatically.

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Nemos uses Sign in with Apple exclusively. Your Apple ID is the only identifier — we never see your email (unless you explicitly contact support). No password to remember, no verification email to click, no marketing list to join.

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Open the app, tap Sign in with Apple, confirm with Face ID, start saving notes. Onboarding is under 10 seconds. No forms, no checklists, no tutorial pop-ups.

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All data sync happens through your personal iCloud account via Apple's CloudKit. Nemos servers do not exist in a way that stores user accounts, because there's no account system to maintain.

Features that matter for privacy-conscious users

Sign in With Apple Only

Your Apple ID is the only identifier Nemos uses. No email, no password, no verification. Tap Face ID and you're in.

Zero Marketing Emails

We don't have your email address, which means we can't send you marketing emails. No newsletter, no re-engagement campaigns, no upgrade pressure.

iCloud-Only Sync

Sync happens through Apple's CloudKit via your iCloud account. Nemos operates no user-facing servers. No accounts to maintain.

Delete Everything in One Tap

Uninstall the app and your data is gone. There's no account to delete from a third-party database because there's no database. True data sovereignty.

"I've accumulated 147 app accounts in the past decade. The worst part is the password manager bloat. Nemos was the first app in years where I didn't have to create yet another account, and I noticed immediately. That was the moment I knew I'd keep using it."

Yuki M.

Yuki M.

Privacy advocate

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free note app that doesn't require an account?+
Nemos is the best free note app for iPhone that requires no account beyond your Apple ID. Apple Notes is the other option, but it's limited to text and attachments. For a full-featured memo app with voice transcription, screenshot OCR, PDF indexing, and 15+ content types — all without creating a traditional account — Nemos is the only option.
How does Nemos work without an account?+
Nemos uses Sign in with Apple as the only authentication method. Your Apple ID is the identifier. All sync happens through Apple's CloudKit (your personal iCloud account) rather than a Nemos-operated backend. There's no user database to create, no email to collect, no password to store, no verification flow — just tap Sign in with Apple and start using the app.
If I uninstall Nemos, what happens to my data?+
Your data stays in your iCloud account exactly where it was. If you reinstall later, it syncs back automatically via Sign in with Apple. If you want to delete everything permanently, you can wipe the Nemos data from iCloud via iOS Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Nemos → Delete Data. There's no third-party database to request deletion from.
Is Sign in with Apple actually private?+
Yes. Sign in with Apple can optionally hide your real email address by providing a relay email that forwards to you — and in Nemos, we don't use that email at all, so even the relay is unused. The only thing Nemos knows about you is a Sign in with Apple identifier that we use to namespace your iCloud data.

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See how Nemos compares

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