Apple Notes is the Notes app from 📝Apple, made to jot down a quick thought or take longer, detailed notes on a Mac and an 📝iPhone.
Apple's Notes for Mac guide describes a Markup palette for drawing freehand, adding shapes and lines, or dropping a text box anywhere on the page. Users can record audio sessions inside a note and generate live audio transcripts, and those transcripts are searchable. A highlight style marks up text so it stands out.
The guide's Math feature calculates answers to basic arithmetic and complex expressions and works with variables; as soon as an equals sign is typed, Notes solves the expression inline. Pictures, videos, PDFs and other files can be dragged into a note, and content can be added to notes from Safari, Maps and many other apps.
Apple's 📝iCloud page lists Notes among iCloud's features, with the example of jotting down a quick to-do list on a Mac and opening it on an iPhone while out. As of November 2026, that page offers 5GB of free iCloud storage and iCloud+ plans from 50GB at $0.99/month to 12TB at $59.99/month.