Read your markdown vault on iPhone.
A native iOS app to read the markdown notes you keep in GitHub. Built for Obsidian vaults, dev docs, and journals. Read offline, search across every file, and ask on-device AI about your whole vault.
Built for reading, not busywork.
The markdown is the product. Everything else stays out of the way.
GitHub native
Sign in with GitHub. Connect any public or private repo you have access to.
Sync once, read offline
Every page caches locally and opens instantly without signal.
Smart incremental sync
SHA-based diffing. Only files whose contents changed are re-downloaded.
Obsidian-friendly
Wikilinks, YAML frontmatter, and TLDR callouts rendered natively.
Tune your reading
Theme, font, size, spacing, and width all live-update as you change them.
Full-text search
Every cached file in your vault, instantly searchable.
Built for the way Obsidian users already work.
Already keeping your vault in GitHub via the Obsidian Git plugin? Vault Reader picks up that same repository and renders [[wikilinks]], YAML frontmatter, and > TLDR: callouts the way you would expect.
No subscription tied to it. No editor in the way. Just a calm reading surface for the vault you have already built.
How it fits with Obsidian →- Wikilinks resolve locallyTap to navigate. Unresolved links stay visible but disabled, never silently broken.
- YAML frontmatter is hiddenTags surface as small chips above the title.
- TLDR callouts as cardsPlus full markdown: code, tables, task lists, blockquotes, images.
- Pull-to-refresh syncSHA-based diffing only re-downloads files that actually changed.
- Offline by defaultEvery page caches on your iPhone, so reading works without a signal.
A private thinking partner for your notes.
Apple Foundation Models run entirely on your iPhone. No API keys. No subscriptions. Nothing leaves your device.
- Summarize a page, or ask it to explain a passage in simpler terms.
- Vault-wide chat surfaces answers linked back to their source pages.
- Private by construction. No prompts or answers ever reach a server.
Privacy by construction.
We didn't add a privacy policy because we had to. We built the app so there was nothing to disclose.
Your token stays on device.
GitHub OAuth tokens live in the iOS Keychain. Not in our servers, because we do not have any.
AI runs on-device.
Apple Foundation Models. Nothing leaves your iPhone, ever.
No analytics. No tracking.
No third-party SDKs. The app is read-only and cannot write back to your repo.
Common questions.
Bring your vault with you.
A calmer way to read your GitHub notes on the go. iPhone, iOS 26+.
