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Svetlina for Mac · iPhone

0.2.2 · 5 November 2026

Bring your notebook from the phone

Started writing on your phone? Choose Bring from Another Device… on the welcome or in the File menu, and scan the code it shows with Svetlina on your phone. The phone asks once before it sends your notes there. Tap Send, and the Mac shows them arriving. When it says the notebook is on this Mac, Done opens its journal, and from then on what you write on either reaches the other.

The notebook gets a folder of its own in Documents › Svetlina, or in an empty folder you choose. If Svetlina quits while the notes arrive, the rest comes the next time the phone and the Mac meet. Bringing a notebook from the phone needs the latest Svetlina on the phone.

The notebook's own name

The window's title and Settings › Archive show the notebook's own name: the one it brought from the phone, or its folder's name.

0.2.1 · 4 November 2026

Svetlina updates itself

When a new version is ready, Svetlina downloads it quietly and tells you: Restart to Update, with nothing lost. It checks once a day and when it starts. Settings › Updates can turn this off, check now, and shows the last check. Svetlina › Check for Updates… does the same from the menu.

If Svetlina runs straight from the downloaded disk image, it asks to be moved to Applications first, so it can update itself.

A Help menu

• Search finds any command by its name.
• Svetlina Guide opens the guide on svetlina.app.
• Keyboard Shortcuts (⌘/) shows every shortcut, in groups.
• What's New shows these notes.
• Send Feedback… writes to support@svetlina.app, with the versions filled in.
• Privacy opens what Svetlina does with your data.

A new welcome

The first time, choose Start a New Notebook (a folder in Documents › Svetlina, or wherever you like) or Open a Folder You Already Use…. Today's journal opens, ready to write.

Smaller

• Settings' search finds the Updates section.
• Opening a folder that holds other files says so plainly.

Svetlina for iPhone

0.2.0 · 7 November 2026

On the App Store

Gather fragments on your iPhone: a line, a quote, something overheard, a photo with a caption and a #tag, each landing on its day. Plan the day in blocks with reminders, keep routines whose steps start fresh every morning, and find any fragment in a few letters. Pair it once with your Mac with a QR code, and the two sync directly over your Wi‑Fi, encrypted, with no account and no server. Download on the App Store

Give your Notebook to your Mac

In the latest Svetlina for Mac, choose Bring from Another Device… and scan the code it shows. Your iPhone asks once before it sends your notes there, shows how much has gone while it sends, and from then on the iPhone and the Mac keep them the same.

Tips where they help

Now and then Svetlina shows a small tip where it helps, such as swiping a suggestion onto Today. One at a time, at most one a day, and never while you write. Settings › Help has the Svetlina Guide, the tips, What's New and Send Feedback.