Branch
Grow an idea without losing the original.
Branch any thought into a question, a concept, research, or a project. The original stays exactly as you wrote it.
For iPhone and iPad
Catch ideas before they drift away.
Oryne is a calm home for your thoughts, voice notes, screenshots, and links. Hold to speak and it's caught. Related ideas gather on their own, and forgotten ones come back when they matter.
How it works
Catch it once. Oryne does the rest.
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Capture
Catch it in seconds.
Hold to speak or tap to type, from the bar on every page. Screenshots and links too.
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Fast Capture
One press, no app.
Set the Action Button once. Oryne opens already listening, from anywhere.
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Gather
Watch it find its place.
Related thoughts drift together into currents. No folders, no tags.
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Resurface
Get it back.
One forgotten idea rises on Tide each day, right when it might matter.
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Ask
Ask what it all means.
Ask in your own words, or summarize a current in one tap. Every answer shows its sources.
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Capture
Catch it the moment it arrives.
Speak, type, snap, or share. Oryne takes the thought exactly as it comes and never asks you to file it first.
Hold to speak.
Hold the button on the capture bar and talk. Let go, and it's caught. Slide up to keep listening without holding on.
Or tap to type.
Tap the bar and the keyboard is up. Send, and your words drift in.
In the moment you let go.
No review, nothing to confirm. A quiet note and a gentle haptic say it landed, and Undo stays for ten seconds.
Share from any app.
Send links, images, and text to Oryne from the share sheet. A link fills in its title and preview when you open it.
Or just ask Siri.
“Hey Siri, add an inspiration to Oryne.” Your thought is saved without opening the app.
Fast Capture
One press. Already listening.
Set the Action Button to Fast Capture, and Oryne opens straight into a recording from anywhere on your iPhone. No finding the app, no tapping through screens. Say it, tap Stop, and get back to what you were doing.
Set it once.
Settings › Action Button › Shortcut › Start Fast Capture. From then on, one press starts a capture.
Or from Control Center.
Add Oryne's Fast Capture button to Control Center for the same one press from any screen.
Voice first, or typing first.
Choose which one opens in Oryne's Settings. Voice starts listening the moment it appears. Typing opens with the keyboard already up.
Say it, and it's in.
Your words appear on the water as you speak. Tap Stop and they sink into the Ocean, already saved. Fix a word later, on the thought itself.
From the Home Screen, too.
The Quick Capture widget gives you Thought and Whisper, one tap each. There is a Lock Screen one as well.
Currents
Your ideas organize themselves.
Oryne reads what each thought is about and gathers related ones into currents. You never make a folder, pick a tag, or decide where something goes.
Grouped by meaning, not keywords.
A sunset photo and a note about warm light end up together, even when they share no words.
One thought, many currents.
Ideas overlap, so a thought can belong to more than one current. Folders can't do that.
Titled for you.
Every thought gets a short title in its own language, written on your device. Change it, and it stays yours.
Read a current in one tap.
Summarize turns a whole current into one short reading, with every thought it drew from.
Resurfacing
The ideas you forgot come back.
Every day, one thought you haven't seen in a while rises to the top of Tide. Not a reminder, not a task. Just a good idea, back in view.
One a day, on Tide and your Home Screen.
The same thought waits on Tide and in the Resurfacing widget, on your Home Screen or Lock Screen.
Connected to what you're exploring now.
Older thoughts that share a current with your latest ones get a gentle lift.
See what drifts near it.
Nearby opens the thoughts closest to it in meaning, right under it.
Or let it rest.
Not today? Let it rest, and another rises in its place. A thought you revisit rests for a while before it can rise again.
Ask
Ask your ideas anything.
Ask the way you would say it. Oryne answers from the thoughts you've caught and lists the ones it used, so every answer leads back to your own words.
One question
No modes to pick. Find the thought you half remember, or ask what a few of them mean.
Drawn from
Every answer lists the thoughts it came from. Tap one to open it.
Summarize
A current, a search, or a thought's neighbors, read as one short answer in one tap.
Beyond your Ocean
When your own thoughts run thin, a note from outside, always marked apart.
Answers are composed on your device with Apple Intelligence, on supported models with iOS 26. Without it, Oryne still finds the thoughts that match.
Library
Everything, in order, when you want it.
Search every thought. Sort by Recent or Related and filter by kind, all from one menu.
Use cases
Made for the way ideas really arrive.
Designers
Screenshot a palette on the bus and say what caught your eye. Your color studies gather into one current, ready when the project starts.
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Sunset gradient study
The orange does not end. It cools into violet before the horizon eats it.
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Warm to cool, not a filter
Stop adding an orange overlay. The sunset is already a temperature shift: 3500K down into blue. Match that, don't fake it.
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Desk at 6pm
The wall goes peach, then slate, as the sun drops. Worth sampling before picking the app background.
Writers
Half a sentence on the train, a line overheard in a café. Oryne keeps the fragments until they are ready to become paragraphs.
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The house kept its summer smell
Opening line? The house kept its summer smell long after we closed it up.
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Overheard at the café
“I only lie about small things.” Character, not dialogue.
Founders and makers
The 2 a.m. product idea, the link worth keeping, the thing a customer said. Later, ask what you keep circling.
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Half a sentence from the train
What if the home screen was just one thought, not a grid.
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A button that doesn't need a label
If the icon is the action, the word next to it is noise. Cut the word first.
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Apple Design Principles
developer.apple.com
Guidance that keeps an interface feeling like it belongs on the phone.
Students and researchers
Quotes, articles, and questions. Branch any of them into research, then ask what your sources have in common.
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Are.na Editorial
are.na
Notes on attention, collecting, and slow software. Saving is not the same as seeing.
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What makes a collection useful?
Look at what the best collections leave out.
Everyday life
Recipes, gift ideas, places to try. The small things you would otherwise lose.
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Weeknight noodles
Chili oil, garlic, leftover greens. Ten minutes. Don't lose this one.
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Fix the old radio for Dad
He still talks about the one from the old kitchen. Find someone who repairs valve radios.
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The dumpling place by the station
Pork and chive, a queue out the door at seven. Go on a weekday.
Not another notes app.
Notes apps help you write things down. Oryne helps you keep ideas alive.
| A typical notes app | Oryne | |
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| Saving an idea | Open the app, make a note, name it, pick a folder. | Hold one button and speak. |
| Staying organized | Up to you, forever. | Related ideas gather on their own. |
| Old ideas | Sink out of sight. | Come back, one a day. |
| Finding something | Guess the right keyword. | Ask in your own words and see the sources. |
| Growing an idea | Edit over the original. | Branch it. The original stays. |
Privacy
Your ideas stay yours.
Oryne is built so your thoughts never have to leave your devices, and there's no account to create.
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Understood on your device.
Titles, themes, currents, and answers are worked out on your iPhone or iPad.
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Synced with your own iCloud.
Your Ocean moves between your devices through your private iCloud.
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No ads, no tracking, no profiles.
Not in the app, and not on this website.
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Export everything, any time.
Take your whole Ocean with you as Markdown files.
And there's more.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Control Center button
- Siri and Shortcuts
- Share from any app
- Link previews
- iPhone and iPad, in sync
- English and 简体中文
- Calm Accessibility Mode
- Undo right after you capture
- A quiet sound and haptic, yours to turn off
- Export to Markdown
- Apple Intelligence on supported models
Questions and answers
Which devices does Oryne run on?
iPhone with iOS 18 or later, and iPad with iPadOS 18 or later. Answers written by Apple Intelligence need iOS 26 and a model that supports it.
Do I need an account?
No. Oryne syncs through your iCloud, and works fully without it.
Where are my ideas stored?
On your devices, and in your private iCloud if you use it. We can't see them.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Capturing, currents, resurfacing, and Ask all work without a connection. Link previews need one, and so does voice transcription in languages your device can't transcribe on its own.
Can I use Oryne in Chinese?
Yes. Oryne speaks English and 简体中文. Choose in Settings › Oryne › Language.
Can I get my ideas out?
Yes. In Oryne's Settings, Export the Ocean saves everything as Markdown files, one per current, with a JSON backup.
Enter the Ocean.
Your next idea is on its way. Be ready for it.