Silt: Writing

Silt is a calm place to think on the page.

It's built for two kinds of writing — essays and journaling — and for the

reading that feeds them. Choose your intent and the room changes to suit it:

an open canvas for an essay, a quiet daily page for a journal, a focused

reader for a book.

Most writing apps forget what you've read. Silt doesn't. As you write, it

brings the relevant lines from your reading alongside the paragraph you're

working on — so the right quote or idea is there when you reach for it.

WRITE WITH INTENTION

• Start from a prompt — "What are you here to think about?" — not a blank page.

• Separate modes for drafting and revising: get the words down first, shape them later.

• Every paragraph keeps its own version history. Try a line three ways and never lose the one you liked.

• Set a gentle deadline and a daily writing reminder.

A LIVING READING CORPUS

• Bring in highlights from Kindle and Obsidian, or highlight as you read inside Silt.

• While you write, Silt surfaces the passages that match what you're saying, ranked by relevance.

• Drop any highlight straight into your draft as a quote.

READ INSIDE THE APP

• Open your own PDFs and EPUBs in a clean, distraction-free reader.

• Your books stay on your device.

• Highlights you make flow back into your corpus, ready to resurface later.

ONE LIBRARY, EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE

• Notes, journal entries, highlights, and books — organized and searchable.

• Light and dark, with accent colors you can tune to your taste.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

• Your writing is end-to-end encrypted (AES-GCM-256). Only you hold the key.

• Local-first: the app works fully offline, with no account required.

• Optional sync keeps your work in step across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Silt runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — one app, all your devices.

Writing settles like sediment, layer on layer, until something solid forms.

Silt is where it settles.