Zones that file things for you
Draw a coloured area, give it a name and drop a card inside: it’s filed. Take it out and it isn’t. There’s nothing else to do.
For iPhone, iPad and Mac
Your digital shoebox
An endless pinboard where you toss notes, photos, links and lists. You move them with your finger like real bits of paper and group them any way you please. Save first; sort later — if you ever want to.
Out now on the App Store, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Weekend in Cadaqués
Drag them anywhere
Call Marta about the car
Coastal path
Leave the harbour early and have breakfast on the beach. Two and a half hours, taking it slow.
Link
House with a terrace in the old town
example.com
To decide
Bring the small cooler!
Backpack
- Swimsuit
- Charger
The cove up the hill
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Friday at 6 pm
Works fully without an account
No sign-ups, no welcome screens: open the app and start pinning things.
Real end-to-end encryption
Turn on sync and your boards travel encrypted: nobody else can read them, and neither can we.
Native on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Not a website in a wrapper: real gestures on the phone, real menus and shortcuts on the Mac.
In thirteen languages
And Catalan isn’t a translation of anything — it’s the language Pattio is written in first.
The board
A pinboard with no edges, and everything in sight
Pattio has no lists forcing you to decide where each thing belongs. It has space — lots of it. Zoom in, zoom out, and every card stays exactly where you left it.
Touch it, move it, turn it
Drag them with your finger
Every card is a piece of paper: you pick it up, move it, and it settles with the gentle physics of something held by a pin.
Rotate with two fingers
A slight tilt so it feels real. Come back to 0° and a little magnet snaps it straight without you thinking about it.
Pinch your photos
Images resize under your fingers to whatever size suits the board.
Zoom in and out
A free camera: pull back to see the whole thing, zoom in to work in one corner.
Twenty-five things you can pin
From the yellow scrap of paper to today’s weather, by way of folders, polls, albums, voice notes and this week’s calendar. Here are six of them; the other nineteen are waiting inside the app.
Sticky note
Three coloursThe classic sticky, in yellow, pink or green. For whatever wouldn’t fit anywhere else.
Long note
TextFor when an idea needs more room than a scrap of paper and you want to write it out.
Image
PhotoFrom the camera or your library, and as big as you want it on the board.
Link
With previewPaste it and it looks like what it is: title, site and preview.
To-do list
Tick it offItems you tick off with a tap. No projects, no deadlines, no assignees.
Zone
Groups thingsA named coloured area that groups everything you drop inside it.
Each board is 4,000 × 4,000 points. Enough to never wonder whether something fits.
Easy to get things in
If you can see it, you can pin it to the board
Saving something should be quicker than deciding where it goes. So Pattio has four ways in, and each takes a second.
- In the app
The add menu
A grid that opens with a tap, haptics and all, to pick what you’re adding.
- Share sheet
Share from any app
Safari, Photos, Notes… hit Share, pick Pattio and the board, and it’s there.
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
Drag and drop
Bring photos, text or links from another app — or from the Finder on the Mac — and drop them on the board.
- Clipboard
Smart paste
You paste and Pattio looks at what you’re carrying: a photo becomes a photo, a link becomes a link with a preview, text becomes a note.
No forms, no picking a category, no naming anything. You can sort it out later — or not.
Order, whenever you want it
Save first, sort later
Sorting is optional and happens the day you feel like it. When it does, Pattio gives you tools that aren’t a chore.
As many boards as you have lives
One for work, one for the flat, one for the trip in August. Each with its own name and emoji, and one tap hops between them. The free plan gives you one; with Plus or Pro, as many as you like.
Grid view, for the tidy-minded
The same board in columns, sorted by activity. For when you’re after one specific thing and don’t feel like wandering.
- 2, 4 or 6 columns
- Filter by type
- Filter by folder
- Filter by zone
Warm night mode
An earthy dark, like cork at night, instead of the usual grey. Follows the system or you pick it yourself.
Eight icons
And the icon you like best
Eight app icons to choose from, so it wears the face you want on your home screen.
Opening a card
Tap a card and it opens right where it sits
The way apps open on iPhone: the card grows out of its own spot on the board. No window arriving from somewhere else.
- 1
It opens up large
The card grows from where it was, text in the middle and options to the side. You always know where it came from.
- 2
You edit it right there
You type on the card itself — no in-between screens, no save button.
- 3
It closes with your finger
Drag it down and it returns to its place on the board, exactly where it was.
And photos bring their details
Open an image and its details sit in a slim column beside it: size, type, aspect ratio and date.
On the Mac
On the Mac it behaves like a Mac
Not an iPad window wheeled onto your desktop: a native menu bar, real keyboard shortcuts, and things that respond when the pointer passes over them.
- ⌘NNew sticky note
- ⌘LNew link
- ⇧⌘NNew board
- ⌘+⌘−Zoom in and out
- ⌘0Back to normal zoom
A native menu bar
File and View where they belong, with their shortcuts written next to them.
Built for a pointer
Buttons and cards light up on hover, and dragging with a mouse works just as well as with a finger.
On Macs with Apple Silicon. Same app, same boards as on your phone.
Privacy
Your board is yours alone
Pattio doesn’t make a living from knowing what you keep there. That’s why privacy isn’t a settings screen here: it’s how the app is built.
Your boards travel encrypted: nobody else can read them, and neither can we.
No account, nothing in the cloud
If you never create an account, everything stays on your device. No server knows a thing.
With an account, end-to-end encryption
Turn on sync and all your content — text and photos — leaves your device encrypted. The key never leaves your devices: the server holds packages it can’t open.
The recovery code is yours
It’s how you get in from a new device. We keep no copy of it, which is exactly why you keep it.
Deleting your account deletes the cloud
Properly: what was on the server is gone. What’s on your phone stays right where it is.
No ads, no trackers
We don’t look at what you write or pin, and we don’t sell it to anyone. The only measurement is pseudonymous usage analytics — action names, with no text of yours and no figures — and you can switch it off in one tap.
Signing in: email with a code, Apple or Google. Your call.
Frequently asked questions
The things we’d want to know before signing up for anything.
Do I need an account?
No. Pattio works fully without one: open the app and start pinning. An account is optional and only syncs your boards between your own devices.
Where is my data?
Without an account, on your device and nowhere else. With an account, in the cloud too — but end-to-end encrypted: the key never leaves your devices and the server only holds packages it can’t open.
What will it cost?
The app is free, and the free plan is enough to use Pattio for real: one board, seventeen of the twenty-five kinds of card, sync, sharing and 50 MB in the cloud. The paid plans open up the rest: Pattio Plus gives 5 GB and Pattio Pro 15 GB, and both come with unlimited boards and all twenty-five kinds. You’ll see the prices on the App Store and inside the app before you buy anything, and guests never pay.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone, iPad and Macs with Apple Silicon. It’s a native app, not a website in a wrapper: on the Mac you get a real menu bar and real keyboard shortcuts.
What if I lose my phone?
If sync is on, you sign in on the new device with your account and recovery code and your boards are back. Without an account there’s no copy anywhere: the board lives on the device.
What languages does it speak?
In thirteen languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese — and Catalan isn’t a translation of anything.
Can I share a board with someone else?
Yes. Invite whoever you like to a board, or hand out a link: whoever opens it can look, vote in polls and add notes right in the browser, with nothing to install and nothing to pay. One caveat: a shared board has to be readable in your guest’s browser, so it stops being end-to-end encrypted while it is shared. We tell you before you share it, and it goes back to travelling encrypted once you stop.
Support
Something not working, or a question that isn’t answered here? Write to us — a real person reads it and gets back to you.
or email us at app-support@somiadigital.com
Now on the App Store
Pattio is ready to download for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Open it, pin your first note and start your board.
