Kloni in your pocket.

Set up Kloni on your iPhone.

Kloni for iPhone needs iOS 26 or later and runs on iPhone only. There is no account to create. To use it with your Mac:

1. On the Mac, in Kloni for Mac 2.0 or later, turn on Settings → Library → Sync with iPhone (see iCloud and Handoff).
2. On the iPhone, sign in to the same iCloud account and turn on iCloud Drive.
3. Open Kloni. Your maps appear once they have synced.

A map still on its way says Downloading and opens as soon as iCloud has delivered it. No Mac? Start with New map on the first screen, and see Work without a Mac.

Find your way around

Press and hold the Tasks tab to jump to a list, or the Maps tab to jump to a section. The gear in each tab's top bar opens Settings; when the bar has shrunk to …, it's in that menu.

Capture a thought.

Tap the capture button, type, and press Return or tap the arrow. The thought lands in your Quick Capture map, the same one your Mac captures into. A message says Saved to that map, with Open to go to it.

Open it from anywhere

Add details as you type

• Write them in the title: a date in words, a priority, a #tag. Kloni underlines the words and offers a chip; tap it to take it.
• Tap the marker before the title to make the capture a task.
• Use the tools along the foot: date, tag, note, photo. State, priority and link are under …
• Type / for the same commands as on the Mac, or # for your tags.

Press and hold the arrow for Save and New. If you close the card unsaved, the draft is kept, photos included, and a message offers Discard.

Work through your tasks.

The Tasks tab gathers the tasks of every map, by the same rules as the Mac (see the Tasks lists). Tap the title to choose a list: All open, Overdue, Today, Doing, Blocked, Not planned or the Done log. While anything is overdue, a red count beside the title goes to Overdue.

A checkbox in a note lists here too, with a Note pill. It can only be marked done or opened.

Narrow and group a list

The view button in the top bar has three menus. A chip under the bar shows a Space or map you've narrowed to; tap it to clear it.

• Space: all Spaces, one Space, or No Space.
• Map: all maps, or one.
• Group by: When, Map or State. When gives Overdue, Today, Upcoming, Someday and No date; Upcoming and Someday start folded. The Done log always goes by day.

Also: the magnifier filters the list by its text.

Change several at once

1. Press and hold a task and choose Select.
2. Tap more rows, or Select All.
3. Use the bar at the foot: Date, State, Priority, Delete. Tap Done when you've finished.

This is the phone's way to do what Review does on the Mac; the Review screen itself is Mac only.

Park a task

In a task's Date menu, choose Someday. It has no date, never goes overdue and stays out of Not planned (see Someday).

Manage your maps.

The Maps tab lists the Quick Capture map first, then pinned maps, then each Space as a section, then Archived. Each map is drawn as its own shape, with a ring for how far along its tasks are.

Inside a map, its More (…) menu has the same file actions, plus Undo, What Changed, Appearance and Save now. Kloni saves as you edit. The Quick Capture map can't be renamed, pinned or archived.

Deleting a map from iCloud Drive moves it to Recently Deleted for 30 days, and your Mac loses it too. Deleting from a library on the phone can't be undone.

Send a map to someone

Choose Share, then Kloni Map for someone with Kloni or Markdown for anyone else. A Kloni Map carries the map and its pictures, never its history. A map you receive from AirDrop, Mail or Files opens at once; if you already have another version, choose Keep Both or Replace.

Write in the Document.

Every map opens as the Document or the canvas; the switch at the top changes it, and each map remembers its view on this phone. Use the Document for writing: the whole map as text, with notes under their nodes.

While you type, a bar above the keyboard outdents, indents, makes a task, opens the note and sets the date. Its … menu has the moves, Tags… and Undo.

Type a date, #tag, !high or [] in a label and tap the chip that appears; on the Mac you'd press Tab. Add a node at the foot adds one under the root.

Also: undo from More, the keyboard bar's … menu, or by shaking the phone. A deleted line offers Undo too.

Choose Read, Skim or Actions

Tap the Document's button in the switch again. Each map remembers its choice on this phone.

In Actions, rows stay put: a task you mark done stays until you next scroll. Tap a heading to go to it in the map. Swipe a task right for Done or left for Delete, and use Add a task at the foot to add one.

While Skim or Actions hides something, a line above the map says so, with Show all to go back to Read.

Also: More → Appearance → Reading mode.

Change the text size

Open More → Appearance in the Document, or Settings. Text size runs from 85% to 175% on top of the phone's own text size. It applies to the Document and notes on this phone; the canvas keeps the map's sizes.

Write a note.

Tap under a line to write in place, or choose Open note in its menu for the whole screen. Notes behave as on the Mac, with the Markdown hidden.

• Format from the bar above the keyboard: headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, code, lists, checklists, quotes, links, photos, files, code blocks, tables and rules.
• Type / for the same menu as on the Mac.
• Tap a checkbox to tick it.
• Tap a link to put the caret in it. Press and hold for Open Link, Edit Link and Remove Link.
• Paste a web address over selected text to link it. The link sheet can also point at a node in this map.
• Select text for Promote to Task (a checkbox becomes a child task), Make These Sections (headings become child nodes) or Improve Writing (Apple Intelligence).

On a note's own screen, the line you're writing stays put once you've typed a little way down, and the rest of the screen dims while you type.

Move around the canvas.

Use the canvas to see the whole map. It draws the map as the Mac saved it: any of the nine layouts, its theme, colors, pictures and tags. Zoomed out, distant branches simplify into capsules and then named regions.

The buttons at the right zoom in, zoom out and fit the map. With a node selected, two more appear: zoom to the selection, and Focus on its branch. In Focus, the chip at the top shows the whole map again.

Change how the map looks

On the canvas, choose More → Appearance. The sheet opens at half height, so the map is the preview. These are saved in the map, so your Mac shows them too.

• Layout: any of the nine.
• Style: Density, Edges, Fill and Shape.
• Theme: the map's colors, also offered from the Document.

Edit a node in its sheet.

The sheet holds everything about one node. Open it by tapping a selected node on the canvas, or with Details in a line's menu in the Document.

• Title: tap to type. A task's marker sits beside it.
• Note: tap to write on the note's own screen.
• State: choosing one makes the node a task.
• Due (Date on a plain node): Today, Tomorrow, Next week, Someday for a task, or Pick…
• Priority and Tags.
• Along the foot: Child, Sibling, Ask for Apple Intelligence, and on the canvas Focus.
• The … menu has the moves, Copy link and Delete.

On the canvas, Child and Sibling make the node and open its sheet with the title ready to type. The map stays live behind the sheet: tap another node and the sheet moves to it. Swipe down to close.

Find anything.

Type in the Search tab to look through every map's names, labels and notes. It takes the same filters as the Mac: #tag, state:, due: and priority: (see Search).

Before you type, it shows Recently edited maps, your Tags, and Filters as buttons: Doing, Due today, High priority and Blocked. With Apple Intelligence, Turn into filters reads a sentence such as blocked tasks due this week.

Use Apple Intelligence.

On an iPhone that has it, Kloni uses Apple's on-device model, so nothing leaves the phone. Drafts wait for your review. See Apple Intelligence on iPhone for what each command does.

Three things differ from the Mac. The phone has no multiple selection in a map, so Condense labels below stands in for condensing several labels. Leaving the app stops a request, because iOS does. And Apple's own Writing Tools don't appear in notes: use Improve Writing.

Turn it all off with Apple Intelligence features in Settings. The switch applies to this iPhone only.

Reach Kloni from outside the app.

Share Sheet

Share a web page to Kloni and it saves as a link node named after the page. Share text and it saves as a capture. Save to Kloni lets you edit the title and add a note first. If it can't write from there, it says Kept for Kloni and the thought waits for the app.

Widgets and controls

• The Tasks widget lists Today or another list, on the Home Screen (small, medium, large) and Lock Screen. Edit the widget to set its Chip (the list) and Space.
• The Home Screen sizes have a capture button. Rows open their task.
• A list over an hour old says Updated with the time; one from an earlier day says Open Kloni to refresh.
• The Quick Capture control goes in Control Center or on the Lock Screen.
• Press and hold the app's icon for Today, Not planned and Quick Capture.

Siri and Shortcuts

Links

Copy link gives a kloni:// link that opens that map or node, on the phone as on the Mac. App links: kloni:///today, kloni:///capture?title=, and kloni:///tasks?chip= with all, overdue, today, doing, blocked or notplanned.

Keep in step with your Mac.

Both apps read and write the same .kloni files, and iCloud Drive only carries them. If you change a map on both while one is offline, Kloni merges them node by node. Where both changed the same thing, one version wins and the other is kept whole.

If a version arrives while the phone has unsaved changes, a Changed on iCloud: Resolve bar waits above the map and nothing is saved until you choose: Merge Both, Keep My Changes, Use the iCloud Version or Decide Later.

The phone records its own history, and the Mac folds it into History as steps of their own. History itself is on the Mac.

Continue with Handoff

Handoff passes the map you're looking at between your iPhone and your Mac (see iCloud and Handoff).

See what changed

Open a map that changed elsewhere and a pill under the bar says what came in: “5 changes since Tuesday”. Tap it for the What Changed sheet, listed by period and main branch. Tap a change to go to its node; the pill then steps from change to change. It only reads, and never writes to the map or its history.

Also: More → What Changed, or What Changed Here? in a node's menu.

Work without a Mac.

Everything on this page works with no Mac. With iCloud Drive on, your library is in iCloud Drive; the first screen offers New map and Import a map.

Without iCloud Drive, Kloni keeps the library on the phone, and Maps says “On this iPhone · not shared with your Mac”. An empty one also offers Try sample maps and Turn on iCloud Drive. Delete and Replace can't be undone there.

Turning on iCloud Drive later switches Kloni to the library in iCloud Drive, and maps kept on the phone don't move with it. Share them as Kloni Maps first, then import them.

Use a hardware keyboard.

Attach a keyboard and the iPhone takes the Mac's keys, under the same names. Hold ⌘ to list them, or see all the iPhone shortcuts. The main ones:

One difference: ⌘J and ⌘⇧J step a task through its states here, where the Mac's ⌘J opens the state picker.

Change settings on the phone.

Tap the gear in a tab's top bar. These settings apply to this iPhone only.

Press and hold the version line at the foot for Copy diagnostics, to paste into a support message.