About Simple Memo

I started using Captio around 2013. At a time when most memo apps were competing on "organization" and "management" features, Captio made the opposite argument: launch, type, send, done.

I was completely hooked. It wasn't a meeting notes app, a task manager, or a cloud-synced notebook. It was a tool for firing the thought in your head directly to your email, with zero friction. That frictionlessness was the whole point — no context-switching, no deciding which folder it goes in, no barrier between the idea and the capture.

"What would I do if Captio ever disappeared?" — I asked myself that more than once over the years.

In October 2024, that fear became real. One day, Captio was simply gone from the App Store. No official announcement, no migration path, no farewell post. Just silence. Some speculated it was related to Gmail API dependency changes, but no one knows for certain.

That evening, I decided to build it myself. Out of respect for what Captio had been, and out of a stubborn belief that this kind of tool deserves to exist, I opened Xcode and started writing UIKit code from scratch.