Tot Mini2.1 - App Store

Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text across your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It’s your tiny text companion!

⁕ Less Is More
Tot’s simple design mean no more hunting for that chunk of text. Seven color-coded dots let you organize your notes while keeping them from getting out of hand.

⁕ iCloud Sync
Seamlessly syncs your text across watchOS, iOS and macOS using iCloud so you can capture thoughts wherever you are.

⁕ Markdown Support
Full support for rich or plain text and even automatically translates text to Markdown for handy use on the web. Have an RTF file you need marked up? No problem!

⁕ Killer Input
Tot supports dictation and Scribble on Apple Watch. Quick, easy, and waiting for additional editing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Available for watchOS, iOS, and macOS.

Version History All:

• Added the classic “Tot 1.0” app icon
• Tab and Shift-Tab can now be used to indent or outdent selected text (on iOS this only works with hardware keyboard attached)
• Fixed issues with typing attributes, like bold and italic, being set incorrectly
• A number followed by a period is no longer recognized as a bullet
• Clarified wording for premium features on purchase screens

watchOS:

• Added support for Liquid Glass
• Tapping Clear All Text now syncs the dot’s text changes correctly

iOS:

• Added support for Liquid Glass
• Settings > Advanced Settings > Reset Theme will clear custom dot colors set on Mac
• Fixed issues with the iOS widgets when using colored/clear tints
• The Done button in Settings is now more visually prominent

macOS:

• The Show Window keyboard shortcut control is accessible via VoiceOver
• Improved VoiceOver accessibility of various Settings screens
• Added support for incremental text search 2.1 09/17/2025 Tot 2 adds fun, customizable smart bullets, new text dividers, improved text handling, automatic iOS data backup, a re-designed UI, improved settings, bug fixes, and much more.

App-Wide Improvements:

• Custom Smart Bullets:
- Assign symbols or standard emoji to act as Smart Bullets
- Create up to five(?) custom smart bullets via Settings > Behavior
- Assign Custom Smart Bullets to Quick Key slots for instant access

• Text dividers:
- Eight divider styles to choose from via the symbol picker
- Assign text dividers to Quick Key slots for easy use
- Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Minus to add a new divider
- Dividers can be cut/copy/pasted at will
- Uses Markdown horizontal rules
- [Yay Funk_Shui & Stragen!]

• Automatic indents:
- Lines that begin with a bullet or Smart Bullet will automatically indent text that's wider than the window
- The Cmd-[ and Cmd-] keyboard shortcuts can be used to indent any selection
- Lines that begin with a space will use that for indentation, otherwise tabs are used
- Works with plain text: great for writing in Markdown [Yay Gruber!]

• Improved text handling & bug fixes:
- Paste as Plain Text can now strip Markdown and works better with rich text
- Fixed a bug where bold stuck around after creating newlines [Yay Nathan!]
- Improved handling of styling information while using drag & drop
- Fixed a styling bug when pasting Smart Bullets in plain text mode
- Fixed a big bug when opening links beginning with “HTTP”
- New "Selected Dot" action for Shortcuts [Yay pseudometa!]

• Updated User Manual
- Removed Twitter links because screw those guys
- Updated for new features and settings
- Added information and links for advanced users

watchOS Improvements:

• Simplified and more modern UI for viewing text
- Colorful backgrounds
• New "+" button:
- Better UI & wording for adding text
- New “After First Line” option [Yay Joey!]
• Added “...” button:
- Shows summary for characters/words/lines
- New Share button
- “Clear All Text” button

• Updated iOS and macOS to match improvements above 2.0 08/25/2025 watchOS:

• Added ability to clear a dot using the text’s long-press menu
• Added circular, rectangular, and corner watch face complications

iOS:

• Fixed scrolling stutter on iOS 16
• Share button is now shown while keyboard is hidden
• Added rectangular and circular Lock Screen widgets 1.1 02/15/2023 All:

• Fixed crashes caused by Windows CRLF line endings in plain text [Yay Tim!]
watchOS:

• The text input help is only shown once [Yay Vatsal!]
iOS:

• Fixed new “Dot” icons on iPad
• Empty plain text dots are now initialized correctly [Yay Adrian!]
macOS:

• Added “Hotkey Window Follows Mouse” to Window menu: repositions window under mouse when Show Window hotkey is used [Yay Alex!] 1.0.1 10/26/2022 1.0 10/04/2022