A story starts as an idea and ends as a published piece. Prexy tracks everything in between — Not Started, In Progress, Completed — on a focused board filtered by beat, summoned with a global hotkey, and mirrored to plain Markdown files on disk.
Free on iPhone and iPad. On the Mac, free for 14 days, then $9.99 once — no subscription. How pricing works
Press ⌥P in any app and a floating search bar appears with "N in progress ↓". Type a few letters of a story's name, or press ↓ to step through your active stories; the selected row grows a second line with its beat and date. Type + to name a new story instead. Zero window-jumping.
Filter by politics, courts, crime, health, or technology. The beats are yours to rename, reorder, and add so your board reflects your actual assignment desk.
On the Mac, every story is also written to a folder you choose, as plain Markdown with its attachments beside it. Back it up with Git or Time Machine, read it in VS Code or Bear.
Turn a line in a story into a reminder in Apple Reminders with one shortcut, carrying a link back to the story. Tick it off on either side. Off until you switch it on.
Confidential sources and unfiled investigations stay private. Prexy keeps your notes in your own iCloud private database and a folder on your Mac. No server of ours, no account, no analytics.
The board and the ⌥P panel live on the Mac; iPhone and iPad carry the same stories with the full editor, upright or on its side, so you can log an interview snippet on the run and finish the draft at your desk.
One download from the App Store covers all three devices. No subscription, no account, nothing to renew.
The whole app, with nothing to unlock: the board, the full editor, attachments, story links, Reminders tasks and iCloud sync.
Start the free trial from inside the app and everything works for two weeks. After that, one in-app purchase keeps Prexy on your Mac for good. Family Sharing is included, so one purchase covers your household. Downloaded Prexy for Mac before version 1.1? It stays free, with nothing to do.
If a trial ends without a purchase, nothing is locked away. Every story stays readable, searchable and exportable on the Mac, the Markdown copy stays on disk, and your iPhone and iPad keep editing as before.
Questions, bugs, or a feature your desk needs: email shearm@mac.com. Include your macOS or iOS version and what you were doing. Prexy is made by one person, and every message is read. See the privacy policy for exactly what Prexy stores and where.
