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Alto: Index & Export App Data

Export Apple Notes, Messages

About this app

<p>Export Apple Notes, Messages, Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Screen Time to Markdown files you own, and keep them in sync as you go.</p>
<p>Your Mac holds years of your own writing, conversations and history, locked inside apps that will not let an AI read them. alto.index copies it all out as plain Markdown into a folder you choose, and keeps that folder current.</p>
<p>Everything stays on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.</p>
<p>HOW IT WORKS</p>
<p>- Connect the apps you want<br />
- alto.index exports them as Markdown to a folder you choose<br />
- Point Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Obsidian, Cursor or any tool that reads files at that folder</p>
<p>Every file links back to the original, so you can jump straight to a note in Notes, an event in Calendar or a thread in Messages.</p>
<p>READY FOR AI WITHOUT ANY SETUP</p>
<p>Every sync writes the folder's own documentation:</p>
<p>- README.md describing what is in it<br />
- Claude Code skills, so running claude in that folder already knows how to search your notes, messages and calendar<br />
- a built-in MCP server, so Claude Desktop can read your data directly</p>
<p>CONNECTIONS</p>
<p>Apple Notes, Apple Mail, Messages, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Safari history, Safari bookmarks, Chrome bookmarks, Phone Calls, Voice Memos, Screenshots, Screen Time, Apple Books, Kindle, Podcasts, Bear, Granola</p>
<p>FREE, WITH NO LIMIT</p>
<p>Bear, Voice Memos, Podcasts, Screen Time and Contacts export in full, for free.</p>
<p>FREE TO TRY, PAY ONCE TO UNLOCK THE REST</p>
<p>- Messages, Mail: 200 items free<br />
- Safari history: 10 days free<br />
- Notes, Calendar, Reminders, bookmarks, Phone Calls: 100 items free<br />
- Screenshots: 50 items free<br />
- Apple Books, Kindle, Granola: 20 items free</p>
<p>PRICING, one time, never a subscription</p>
<p>- A single connection, any three, or all of them<br />
- All of them means every source, including the ones we add later, at no extra cost<br />
- Prices in your own currency, straight from the App Store</p>
<p>Your notes, your messages, your files. On your own disk, in a format that outlives any app.</p>

What stands out

Exports Apple Notes, Messages, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and other apps to local Markdown files.
Keeps data strictly on your Mac with no uploads to external servers.
Generates built-in documentation and MCP server support for AI tools like Claude and Obsidian.

Version updates

Version 5.1

Safari is one card: your history, bookmarks and Reading List, and with Safari unlocked your open tabs, Tab Groups, Recently Closed, downloads and more. Either Safari purchase you made unlocks all of it. Each Voice Memos note carries its transcript: the one Voice Memos made, or on macOS 27 one heard on your Mac in the language you choose. Each card keeps its settings in Options…, the same sheet as at setup. Safari can also write CSV tables, and link previews in Apple Notes come out as links.

10 月 23, 2026 · Mac App Store · macOS · View source

Version 4.1

If you bought a bundle, alto.index no longer asks you to buy anything before it has heard back from Apple about what you own. It used to show every source's free limit and price for the first moment after launch, and kept showing them if that check was slow. A sync that starts in that moment now waits for the answer too, so it never runs with the free limits. The Claude Desktop extension is in the app: open Integrations and the download starts straight away. The mcp docs button opens a page that exists.

9 月 24, 2026 · Mac App Store · macOS · View source

Version 4.0

Choose what syncs. Tick the folders and notes to export from Apple Notes, the mailboxes from Mail, the lists from Reminders and the calendars from Calendar, and the same for Messages, Bear, Contacts, Voice Memos, bookmarks, Books, Podcasts, Kindle and Screen Time. Anything new, a folder or a chat you start tomorrow, exports on its own unless you untick it. Organize Apple Notes by folder, by tag or by smart folder, and Contacts in one folder, by group or by company. Notes and Bear export as Markdown or HTML. Contacts and Calendar now read straight from their folder on your Mac: contact notes come across, and repeating events export every time they happen. Each asks for its folder once, and everything you already exported stays where it is. Notes and Messages export in a richer format. A note is named by its title and links to the notes it mentions; a conversation shows replies and edits and links each person to their contact file. Full resync removes only the files alto.index wrote. Anything else in your export folder stays. Every source card works the same way: what it saves, where, and one row of buttons, with a sync bar that never moves the layout. And alto.index now speaks seventeen languages.

9 月 16, 2026 · Mac App Store · macOS · View source

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montaigne.io ★ 5.0

Export is working

Works great for apple notes export and iMessage!
From iOS · 10 月 11, 2026 · View source
rmorehead ★ 5.0

Group Chat Woes Solved in Version 1.27

alto.index has always been excellent in concept, but data would get overwritten if the calculated ex…
From iOS · 10 月 11, 2026 · View source

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