iOS App

The MDflow iOS app puts your workspace on your iPhone and iPad, with deep integration into iOS itself — Siri, Spotlight, widgets, the share sheet, and Face ID.

The iOS app is not Pro-gated. Unlike the Web Clipper, the editor extension and the n8n node, it does not use a Personal Access Token, so everything in it works on a Free account.

Requirements

• iOS 26.5 or later.
• iPhone and iPad. The iPad runs the same layout as iPhone rather than a split-view design.

Signing in

Four providers, matching the web app:

• Sign in with Apple — the native system sheet.
• Google, GitHub, Microsoft — a secure system web sheet.

There is no email-and-password option. Use the same provider you use on the web, or you will end up in a different account.

Getting around

The app is a single navigation stack, not a tab bar:

• Home — the workspace browser: a workspace switcher, search, and your Favorites, Recent and Folders.
• Folder — subfolders and documents, with actions to create, rename or delete.
• Document — read, edit, and everything in the … menu.

Workspaces

Switch workspaces from the dropdown at the top of Home.

You cannot create, rename or delete workspaces in the app. Do that on the web.

Folders

• Create a folder at the root or nested inside another.
• Rename and delete from the folder's … menu. Deleting warns that the documents inside will be permanently deleted.
• Rows show the folder name and its subfolder count.

Two absences worth knowing: you cannot move a folder to a different parent, and folder descriptions are not shown or editable in the app. Both are web app features.

Documents

Full create, read, update and delete:

• Create in a folder. Type a title — .md is appended automatically.
• Edit in a plain monospaced text editor.
• Preview with a segmented Edit/Preview toggle, rendering proper markdown.
• Rename, Move to folder, Delete, and Favorite with the star.
• Zoom text in and out from the … menu. The zoom is global across all documents and is remembered.

Saving

The app autosaves about a second after you stop typing, with a live Saving… / Saved / Not saved indicator. Pending edits are flushed when you leave the screen.

Note this differs from the web app, where autosave is a Pro feature you switch on per document. On iOS, autosave is simply how the editor works — for everyone.

Task lists

Markdown checkboxes render properly in Preview. They are not tappable, and the app has no task management — the /tasks view is a web app feature.

Finding things

• Search from Home, scoped to the current workspace. It matches titles and body text, returns up to 50 results, newest first. Pull to refresh.
• Favorites — every starred document in the current workspace.
• Recent — the 5 most recently updated documents.

Encrypted documents are stored as ciphertext, so their contents are not searchable.

Encryption

Full end-to-end encryption, interoperable with the web app:

• Encrypt a document with a password from the … menu, with a confirm step and a clear warning that there is no recovery.
• Locked documents show a gate requiring the password.
• Face ID / Touch ID unlock — the derived key (never the password) is stored in the iOS Keychain, so later opens use biometrics instead of typing the password.
• Once unlocked, the document stays editable, and is re-encrypted on save.

Same mdflow-enc:v1 format as everywhere else — AES-GCM with PBKDF2-SHA256 at 600,000 iterations — so a document encrypted on your phone opens on the web, and vice versa.

You cannot remove encryption in the iOS app. The option only appears for unencrypted documents. Use the web app or the VS Code extension to convert a document back to plain markdown.

Biometrics protect encrypted documents only. There is no app-level lock on MDflow itself.

Sharing — read this carefully

The … menu has Share, but it does something narrower than you might expect:

Share exports the document as a .md file through the iOS share sheet — AirDrop, Files, Mail, and so on. It does not create a share link.

There are no share links, collaborators, comments, or permissions in the iOS app. To publish a document, use the web app.

Share is hidden while a document is locked.

iOS integrations

This is where the app earns its place:

Feature	What it does
Share Extension	Share text or a text file from any app into MDflow. It is saved to an "iOS" folder in your oldest workspace, with the message "Saved to mdflow. Open MDflow to edit it."
Widget	A small-size tile that opens a document you choose. Small size only.
Control	A New Note control for Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action Button.
Siri / Shortcuts	Four actions: Open Document, Search Documents, New Note (title and text), and Append to Document.
Spotlight	Document titles appear in system search and open on tap. Bodies are never indexed. Cleared when you sign out.
Dark mode	Follows your system appearance. No in-app toggle.

Offline behaviour

Be clear-eyed about this:

There is no offline document access. Reading or editing any document requires a network connection. There is no local cache, no draft store, and no conflict resolution — the last write wins.

This is a real difference from the web app, which keeps local drafts and lets you keep writing offline.

What does work without a connection: notes captured by the Share Extension, the New Note control, and Siri intents. These are queued locally and imported the next time you open the app. Document titles are cached too, so the widget and the Siri document picker work offline.

So: capture works offline, reading and editing does not.

What the iOS app does not have

• Images or attachments — cannot view or insert them.
• PDF export or printing.
• Share links, collections, comments.
• Tasks.
• A settings screen (About, Sign out and Delete account live in the Home … menu; text zoom is in the document … menu).
• Workspace create/rename/delete, folder moves, folder descriptions.
• Push notifications.
• Any Pro upsell — there is no paywall in the app at all.

Account deletion

Delete account is in the Home … menu. It is permanent and removes all of your documents, folders and images — the same cascade as the web app, since it calls the same endpoint. See 03 Deleting Your Account and Data.