xDesk

xDesk is a personal data organizer for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, made by Nas-Games, that replaces several separate apps with one archive of cards. Notes, photos, scanned documents, recordings with their transcripts, deadlines, grocery lists, contacts and routes are each stored as a card inside folders. xDesk is meant for individuals and families who want one place for household, car, client and personal records.

Each card is built as a grid of fields such as text, numbers, dates, photos, maps, QR codes, drawings and signatures, or started from one of sixteen ready-made models, including document, vehicle, warranty, Wi-Fi network, subscription and meeting. xDesk has no servers and needs no sign-up or email address: data lives in the user's iCloud and is seen only by the user and the people they choose to share it with.

xDesk includes a recorder that transcribes speech on the phone without sending the audio anywhere and tells two voices apart, a scanner that straightens crooked pages into a PDF, and a calendar that collects deadlines from every card with a countdown. Folders can be shared through iCloud with family or colleagues, with an end-to-end encrypted chat inside each shared space. xDesk can also record routes, plan trip stops and keep heart rate data from the watch.

The free version of xDesk includes unlimited cards and folders, the recorder, the scanner and one shared folder. xDesk Pro adds full transcripts with speakers told apart, unlimited models, PDFs with a letterhead, messages in shared spaces and a password vault, at $3.99 per month, $24.99 per year or $44.99 once. xDesk requires iOS 18.0 or later and watchOS 10.6 or later, and it is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Use cases

• Keeping a family grocery list that children update from their own phones
• Sharing quotes with colleagues and site photos with a work crew
• Storing vehicle, warranty, Wi-Fi network and subscription details as cards
• Collecting a relative's recipes in their own folder
• Recording and transcribing a conversation between two people
• Planning the stops of a trip with computed times
• Tracking upcoming deadlines with a countdown on the first page