Are the Harbor apps really native?

Yes — really native, not “native” in the way the word gets stretched.

The Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps are written in SwiftUI, Apple’s own toolkit, with a deliberately tiny dependency footprint. There is no Electron, no embedded web page pretending to be an app. Behind them runs a fast Go server. Android gets its own native app, live on Google Play.

You can feel it, but you can also verify it — native apps do things wrappers can’t:

• Mac — your notes appear in Spotlight, Handoff passes a note to your iPhone, Quick Capture sits in the menu bar with a global hotkey (⌃⌥Space), and you get real tabs, multiple windows, and tear-off note windows.
• iPhone and iPad — home-screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, Apple Pencil handwriting, Face ID lock, and a Dynamic Island Live Activity while recording.

The web app is the honest exception — it’s a web app, and we say so. But it’s an unusually serious one: it keeps a real SQLite database in your browser, installs as an app, and works fully offline. On Windows and Linux, it’s how you run Harbor.

If you’re coming from Evernote’s Electron-based rewrite, the difference is the first thing you’ll notice: launch time, typing, scrolling a long note. Fast and native isn’t a bullet point for us — it’s a reaction to watching a tool we loved get slow. See what platforms Harbor runs on.