Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m the maker of Ikes, and I made it for one reason: I kept losing my best ideas.
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Ideas will hit me in the shower, on a walk, or in the middle of work. I could capture them in the Notes app, but I would never see them again. Arrest was easy. Rediscovery was the real problem.
Ikes is built around a different metaphor: an ikesu, the Japanese well that stays fresh until it’s needed. The goal is not just to store ideas, but to keep them usable. Each idea can have a tag, source, and color, and the app helps bring it back through feeds, searches, filters, and shuffles.
What feels particularly new in this version is the rediscovery layer. Ikes now includes a sleeker UI, full support for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Intelligent Search that combines semantic and keyword searches, Intelligent Discovery that displays related ideas for each note, and exports to JSON or YAML so you can use your idea collection in ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM, or Coding Agents.
It also supports fast capture for text and images, sharing extensions from other apps and OCR to make screenshots searchable.
Ikes has been on the App Store for years, but this is the first version where the loop feels truly complete: capture, rediscover, and reuse.
I would genuinely love your feedback, especially on anything that feels confusing, missing, or unexpectedly useful.
👉 Download: apps.apple.com/us/app/id1515855107
👉 Check out our story and use cases: https://ikes.app
Happy to answer anything in the comments!