Bite

Seven pages, always at hand.
A seven-dot scratchpad for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro.
Inspired by Tot, and taken further.

Seven dots. Seven pages.

Bite is one place for whatever you're juggling right now. There are seven pages, one for each coloured dot, and nothing else to manage: no folders, no files, no titles to think up. Tap a dot, or swipe, and you're on that page.

Groceries on orange, the week ahead on red, ideas on purple. Every page has its own colour, from its dot to its paper, and a dot fills in once its page has something on it, so you can see where everything is at a glance. Done with a page? Clear it from the … menu, and Undo brings it back if you change your mind.

Just start typing.

There's nothing to set up and nothing to save. Pick a dot and type, and the page keeps every word as you go. Bite is plain Markdown underneath, and it formats as you write:

Type at the start of a line	and get
# and a space	a heading
- and a space	a bulleted list
1. and a space	a numbered list
[]	a to-do
> and a space	a quote
---	a divider
```	a code block

Wrap words in ** for bold, * for italic, ~~ for strikethrough, or backticks for code, and [text](address) makes a link. Or select text and pick a style from the bar above the keyboard. Pages copy out as Markdown too, and links open with a tap.

Tick it off.

Type [] and a to-do appears. Tick it off with a tap, on the page, on a widget or on your wrist, and it stays there, crossed out. To add one from anywhere, say “Add to Bite” to Siri.

On all your devices.

Your pages stay in step through your own iCloud. Change a page on two devices at once and Bite keeps the changes from both, line by line, and edits from your other devices show up while you watch.

Mac

Bite lives in the menu bar, a keyboard shortcut away. It has desktop widgets, a Share extension, a right-click menu for links and formatting, and Share as text, PDF, image or Markdown, with Save… for a file.

Bite for Mac is also a download, from GitHub Releases. Signed and notarized by Apple, it keeps itself up to date and syncs through the same iCloud as Bite from the App Store. Keep one of the two on each Mac.

iPad

Open Bite in as many windows as you like with ⌘N, each on its own page, or the same page kept in step. The Aa button opens a format panel like the system's own, and there's a Format menu, keyboard shortcuts and ⌘F to find.

Apple Watch

Read your pages, tick off to-dos and add a line, right from your wrist. Complications and the Smart Stack keep a page a glance away.

Apple Vision Pro

Bite opens as a window in your space, with the seven dots as visionOS's own tab bar, and its widgets sit in the room around you.

Built into the system.

• Widgets: one page, all seven in turn, or just the to-dos, on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and the Mac desktop. Tick to-dos off right there.
• Controls: open a page from Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button.
• Siri and Shortcuts: open a page, or add a to-do with “Add to Bite”.
• Spotlight: every line of every page turns up in search, and opens right where it is.
• Share: send text or a link from any app onto any page, in a card that works just like Bite.
• Messages: drop a page into a conversation as a card.
• Export: share a page as text, PDF, an image or Markdown.
• Quick actions: touch and hold the icon to Keep Writing or Add To-Do.
• Writing Tools: proofread and rewrite with Apple Intelligence.
• Statistics: a page's words, characters and paragraphs, from the … menu.

Your Terminal. Your AI.

Bite for Mac comes with bite, a command line tool for your pages. Copy its one-line setup from Bite's Settings ▸ Command Line Tool into Terminal, then:

bite list                      # each page: its title, lines and last change
bite read blue -n              # a page as Markdown, its lines numbered
bite todo orange "Oat milk"    # a to-do at the end of a page
bite tick orange "Oat milk"    # and ticked off
bite search dentist            # the lines that say it, on any page
bite export purple --pdf > ideas.pdf

Name a page by its colour (yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, teal, green), its number, or current. Each change goes in as if it were typed on the page, and reaches your other devices through iCloud.

bite mcp runs it as an MCP server, so an AI app can read and write your pages too. For Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope user bite -- \
  /Applications/Bite.app/Contents/Helpers/bite mcp

bite help shows the rest.

Your colour.

On iPhone and iPad, give Bite's icon the colour of any dot, in Settings.

Private by design.

Bite collects nothing about you: no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your pages stay on your devices and in your own private iCloud, where only you can reach them. Read the Privacy Policy.

Speaks your language.

English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語 and 한국어.

Inspired by Tot.

Bite started from a love of Tot, The Iconfactory's seven-dot scratchpad: seven pages, and nothing to organise. Bite keeps that idea and takes it further:

• To-dos you tick off on the page, on a widget or on your wrist.
• A native app on every Apple device, Apple Vision Pro included.
• Deep in the system: Liquid Glass, widgets, Controls, Siri, Spotlight, Share and Messages.
• Open to your tools: a command line and an MCP server, for scripts and AI.
• Free, with no account, no ads and no tracking.

Bite is an independent app and isn't affiliated with The Iconfactory.

Build it yourself.

You'll need Xcode 27. Bite runs on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS 26 or later.

1. Open Bite.xcodeproj.
2. In each target's Signing & Capabilities, choose your team, and use your own bundle identifiers, App Group and iCloud container.
3. Run the Bite, BiteMac, BiteWatch or BiteVision scheme.

Target	What it is
Bite	iPhone and iPad
BiteControls	widgets and Controls for iPhone and iPad
BiteShare, BiteMessages	the Share extension and the iMessage app
BiteMac, BiteMacWidgets, BiteMacShare	the Mac app, its widgets and its Share extension
BiteCLI	bite and its MCP server
BiteWatch, BiteWatchWidgets	Apple Watch and its complications
BiteVision, BiteVisionWidgets	Apple Vision Pro and its widgets
Shared	the editor, shared by iPhone, iPad and Mac
Packages/BiteKit	pages, sync and the commands behind bite

Tests live in BiteTests, BiteMacTests, BiteWatchTests, BiteVisionUITests and the BiteKit package.

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