Fingertips
Press kit
Everything you need to write about Fingertips, including the parts that do not work. Anything unclear, or you want something that is not here: support@usefingertips.com.
On the App Store now:
apps.apple.com/app/id6798439217
iPhone and iPad since 5 September 2026, Mac since 6 September, free for 14
days then $9.99 once.
In one line
Fingertips keeps the text, files and images you reuse one keystroke away, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. All on-device. One-time purchase.
In a paragraph
Most apps in this category are transit: you hold something while you move it between apps, and then it is gone. Fingertips is a permanent library of the things you paste again and again, and it is designed backwards from the moment you need one. Every surface is a search field with a ranked list under it and the top result already selected, and the ranking is built on what you actually reuse most rather than what you touched last.
On the Mac a global hotkey opens a palette: type, press Return, and the snippet is copied with the app you were already in back in front, ready for ⌘V. On iPad it lives in a narrow window beside whatever you are writing in, so it is ⌘Tab, three characters, Return, ⌘Tab, ⌘V, with both windows on screen. On iPhone a custom keyboard puts your snippets inside any text field in any app. It holds text, links, images and files, and the same library reaches Shortcuts, Spotlight, Siri and widgets.
Fast facts
| Name | Fingertips |
|---|---|
| Developer | Peter Dongo, working solo |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad and Mac, one universal purchase |
| Requires | iOS, iPadOS or macOS 26 or later |
| Price | Free for 14 days, then $9.99 once. Not a subscription, and nothing is feature-gated during the trial |
| Category | Utilities, secondary Productivity |
| Built with | Native SwiftUI, one multiplatform target, SwiftData and CloudKit. Zero third-party dependencies except RevenueCat for the purchase |
| Privacy | No account, no ads, no analytics SDK, no server holding your content. Sync is your own private iCloud database |
| App Store | apps.apple.com/app/id6798439217 - iPhone and iPad since 5 September 2026, Mac since 6 September. One purchase covers all three |
| Press contact | support@usefingertips.com |
What is actually unusual about it
Four things, in the order a reviewer would notice them.
The intelligence is all on-device
Vision OCR reads saved images, so a screenshot is findable by text that only ever existed inside the picture. A dropped PDF is read with PDFKit so its contents are searchable. A photo with no words in it gets Vision's classifier labels as tags. Apple's Foundation Models name snippets when Apple Intelligence is available, with a deterministic fallback so nothing ever requires it. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Fill-in tokens make a snippet a template
A stored signature is just text. A snippet containing {{date}},
{{clipboard}}, or a named blank the app asks you for as you
paste, is a template. That is the difference between storage and reuse.
One projection, so no surface disagrees
A custom keyboard runs under a hard memory cap and cannot open SwiftData and CloudKit. So the app projects its store into a small flat cache in a shared app group, with lowercased search keys precomputed at write time, and the keyboard reads only that. The Mac palette, the widgets, Spotlight and the App Intents read the same projection, which means no surface can ever rank a query differently from another. 5,000 snippets fit in 1.34 MB.
Deleting is reversible
Deleting puts a snippet in the trash for 30 days with the days remaining on the row, because this is where people keep the only copy of something they wrote once. Everything exports, at any time, including after the trial ends.
Limitations worth knowing before you test
Told up front rather than found on camera.
- On the Mac, Return copies rather than pastes. ⌥Space, type, Return: the snippet is on the clipboard and focus is already back in the app you came from, so ⌘V lands in the right place. Fingertips sent that keystroke itself until App Review asked for it to go, because macOS gates keystroke sending behind a permission meant for accessibility software. The palette footer says so before you press anything.
- On iPad with a hardware keyboard, the custom keyboard is not reachable. iPadOS suppresses the on-screen keyboard entirely and third-party keyboards are not in the Ctrl Space input-source cycle. That is a platform behaviour, not a bug in the app, and it rewrote the product's whole pitch when it was found. On iPad the fast path is the side window; the keyboard is the right answer on iPhone and on touch-mode iPad.
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Summaries only work in languages Apple Intelligence supports.
A dropped PDF is read, tagged, titled and made searchable in any language.
The one-sentence summary is not: the on-device model throws
unsupportedLanguageOrLocaleoutside its supported list, which turned up by dropping a Hungarian document. The app detects the language first and says so rather than showing an empty space. - A photograph with no text in it never gets a sentence. The on-device text model cannot see an image, so those get Vision's labels as tags instead. Shipping that honestly beat sending pictures to a server to have them described.
Screenshots
Web-sized below. Full resolution, all three platforms, plus the icon, is in the download.
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Full-resolution App Store screenshots for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the app icon at 1024. A demo video under two minutes is being cut and will be linked here.
About the developer
Fingertips is made by Peter Dongo, working alone. It is his entry to the RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 in the Productivity category, which is disclosed here so nobody has to discover it later.
Everything on this page may be quoted without asking. If you want a build before release, or a specific screenshot that is not here, email support@usefingertips.com and it will be sent the same day.