nTilia is an offline notes app for field journalists and researchers: on-device transcription, a citable journal, and AI only when you approve.
Free · No credit card · Works offline
Capture09:42 · Maroua · offline
Dictate offline, take a photo on the spot, group the trip into a Mission. Notes, audio, photos, place, and GPS stay in the Mission folder and auto-save locally. Transcription can run on-device so the file never goes to the cloud. Sync waits for Wi-Fi, not the other way around.
Refine18:10 · newsroom Wi-Fi
When you are back online, type / to ask nTilia to fix spelling, translate, match your voice, or get a piece ready to publish. Every proposal goes through a Before / After review. Nothing is applied without your explicit accept.
PublishD+3 · live · FR / EN
Drafts stay local, posts can be public or private, and one article can live in two languages. Readers pick FR or EN. Keep your archive in open Markdown — no lock-in.
Most tools send audio and drafts to a server first. nTilia flips that: you capture and encrypt here. Whisper stays on the phone. When signed in, takes leave privately once nTilia is open and the vault unlocked — not from a locked pocket.
A secret phrase unlocks the device. Notes marked “device” never sync.
Photo or audio from the home screen, without opening a note. You attach them later, including offline. When signed in, they sync (private) once nTilia is open and the vault unlocked.
The model installs once. After that, transcription works offline and the audio never leaves. Pro and up.
Five days in Maroua. A portrait in Brussels. Without a Mission, it all mixes. With one, the trip has a container: notes, audio, a private map, export. Nothing else.
Léa, a journalist, two Missions, one checkpoint: a step-by-step scenario of what Travel Mode takes off the phone — and what it does not cover.
Ecology, public health, social sciences: readings are taken offline, the abstract and co-authors are declared in the inspector, and the article gets a Zenodo DOI without leaving the editor. Zotero reads it in one click.
Type / in the editor: spelling, translation, voice, checklist, tones, sources, FAQ. Right inside your Markdown. AI proposes. You decide.
Type /
Right in your text, where you write. No separate chat window.
Pick the action
From the menu: spelling, voice, translation, tone, sources, FAQ…
Accept or reject
Nothing changes until you accept. Esc to reject, ⌘↵ to accept.
Write
Prepare and publish
Write in French, publish in English too. AI translates, you approve. A correction archives the previous version — readers can still compare.
One folder per trip. “Prepare to leave”: sync + ZIP on this device, for a network outage. That is not the checkpoint gesture.
Safe recipient, empty device at a checkpoint, Empty or Burn, even remotely. Reopening the notebook takes 24 hours, unless the recipient approves. The off-body copy survives even if your private cloud is destroyed.
On phone and desktop. Install it — otherwise the browser can wipe storage.
Eleven short answers: privacy, offline, AI, Missions, Travel Mode and citable research.
By default, everything stays on the device. Notes marked “device” never sync. With the vault on, notes, takes and missions are encrypted here. When signed in, notes and takes leave (private) once nTilia is open, the vault unlocked, and you have a network. Once synced, nTilia can read them — for sync and the journal. Publishing is a choice, article by article.
Yes. Capture, dictation, takes and editing work with no network. Transcription runs on the device. Sending a photo already attached to an article, and cloud AI, need a connection. Sync does not run from a locked pocket: reopen nTilia, unlock the vault, network present.
The free plan includes 40 credits every week. Every action is triggered by you, never in the background. Your balance stays visible in the editor.
No. Open Markdown: import .md files, export a ZIP (notes, audio, metadata). Leave whenever you want, with everything.
Open the editor in your browser and start writing. Free, no credit card.
Yes. One article, two linked versions. AI proposes the translation. Nothing goes live until you review and publish. Readers pick FR or EN. Notes you don’t translate stay in their original language.
A field folder. You create it before a trip. Notes, photos and audio attach to it. Notes with GPS appear on a private map. The ZIP export takes that folder only, on this device. Before you lose the network: Prepare to leave runs sync + ZIP. Everything else stays in Unassigned.
Whisper stays local: audio is not sent for transcription. When signed in, takes sync (private, readable by nTilia) once the app is open, the vault unlocked, and you have a network — not from a locked pocket. Notes marked “device” never sync. The mission ZIP is your copy on this device.
Each “Update” archives the version that was live. Readers can still read it and compare. You can republish an earlier version; a correction note appears under the date.
From Pro: an off-body copy with a safe recipient (newsroom, desk), then the device no longer carries sensitive notes. “Prepare to leave” leaves a ZIP on the phone — the opposite of a checkpoint. Empty wipes nTilia here; the cloud stays, hidden, and only comes back after 24 hours or the safe recipient’s approval: nobody can force you to reopen it at the barrier. A seized phone empties itself remotely as soon as it gets a network, and an emptied device is signed out. The public journal can be hidden for the trip. Travel Mode requires the vault: destroying its key makes the erased notebook unreadable. Burn also empties the private cloud; the recipient drop is not destroyed. nTilia is not the whole phone, and IndexedDB is not a forensic wipe. Distinct from sensitive-field mode (GPS hidden on the public journal).
Yes. Every article has a Cite block (APA, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS, JATS) and Highwire meta tags that Google Scholar reads. You declare an abstract and co-authors with ORCID and affiliation; footnotes and KaTeX math render server-side. From Pro, “Deposit on Zenodo” sends a preprint PDF and the Markdown source to CERN’s archive: the DOI comes back into the frontmatter and every citation format. The Research profile renames missions to projects and suggests the Academic style.
Made for the field
Open a Mission. Capture. Encrypt what must stay here. Publish when it’s ready.
Free · No credit card · Works offline
