Get Soot Pro
With Soot Pro, your notes sync between your Mac, iPhone and iPad, end-to-end encrypted. It’s $2.49 a month or $24.99 a year, with 10 GB of storage for your notes and attachments.
Already have Soot Pro? You don’t need to subscribe again. To sync a new device, follow Add a new device instead.
Before you start
On the Mac, your library must be outside folders that another service syncs, such as iCloud Drive or Dropbox. If your library is in a folder like that now, choose Soot ▸ Settings… ▸ Soot Pro and click Move library… to move the whole folder somewhere else, such as your home folder.
Why Soot Pro needs its own folder →
During setup, you’ll create an encryption password. Soot uses it to encrypt your notes before they leave your device. Keep it in a password manager: if you forget it and haven’t made a recovery phrase, nobody can unlock your synced notes, including Soot.
Subscribe and sign in
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On the Mac, choose Soot ▸ Settings…, click Soot Pro, then Get Soot Pro…
On iPhone and iPad, tap Settings (the gear icon), then Get Soot Pro.
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Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, then click or tap Continue.
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Enter your email and choose Send sign-in link. There’s no account password: you sign in with the link. If the email isn’t there, check your junk folder.
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Open the link in the email, on any device, and click Sign in on the page that opens. Then go back to Soot, which carries on with setup.
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Confirm the subscription with the App Store.
Set up encryption
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Create your encryption password, and save it in your password manager.
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Soot encrypts your notes and starts syncing them. When you see You can close this, click or tap Close. Syncing carries on in the background.
Finish setup: save a recovery phrase
A recovery phrase is twelve words that unlock your library if you forget your encryption password.
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On the Mac, choose Soot ▸ Settings… ▸ Soot Pro, then click Create… beside Recovery phrase.
On iPhone and iPad, tap Settings ▸ Soot Pro ▸ Encryption, then Create recovery phrase.
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Save the twelve words, in order, separately from your encryption password, either on paper or in a different password manager. This lets you recover your notes even if you lose access to your password manager or Apple Account.
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Click or tap I’ve saved it.
Next
- Add a new device, to sync your notes there too
- How Soot looks after your notes
Having trouble? Email hello at sootsync dot com and I’ll help.