Itsypad for iOS

The iOS companion to Itsypad – a tiny, fast scratchpad and clipboard manager. Syncs your scratch tabs and clipboard history across all your devices via iCloud.

Features

• Multi-tab scratchpad with session persistence
• Clipboard history (up to 1,000 entries) with search
• iCloud sync with the macOS version (last-modified-wins conflict resolution)
• Syntax highlighting via highlight.js (26+ languages)
• 9 colour themes with light/dark variants
• Bullet lists, numbered lists, and checklists with auto-continuation
• Checkbox tap-to-toggle
• Tab grid expose view
• Configurable indentation (spaces/tabs, width)
• Auto-language detection
• Hardware keyboard support on iPad (Cmd+D duplicate line, Cmd+Return toggle checkbox, Cmd+Shift+L toggle checklist, Cmd+S save, Cmd+Shift+S save as)
• 12 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Polish

Requirements

• iOS 17.0+
• Xcode 16+
• XcodeGen for project generation

Setup

xcodegen generate
open itsypad-ios.xcodeproj

Localization

Itsypad uses a Swift String Catalog (Sources/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings) for localization. Translations are managed via Lokalise.

Languages: English (base), Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Polish.

Setup

brew tap lokalise/cli-2
brew install lokalise2
cp lokalise.yml.example lokalise.yml
# Edit lokalise.yml and add your API token

Push source strings to Lokalise

Extracts English keys and values from the xcstrings file and uploads to Lokalise:

scripts/push-translations.sh

Pull translations from Lokalise

Downloads all translations from Lokalise and merges them into the xcstrings file:

scripts/pull-translations.sh

Adding new strings

All user-facing strings use String(localized:defaultValue:) with a structured key:

Toggle(String(localized: "settings.appearance.word_wrap", defaultValue: "Word wrap"), isOn: $store.wordWrap)
Section(String(localized: "settings.spacing.title", defaultValue: "Spacing")) { ... }

Key format: {area}.{context}.{name} – e.g. menu.file.*, alert.save_changes.*, settings.appearance.*, clipboard.*, tab.context.*.

Workflow after adding new strings

1. Build the project – Xcode auto-populates new keys in Localizable.xcstrings
2. Push source strings to Lokalise: scripts/push-translations.sh
3. Translate in Lokalise (or let translators handle it)
4. Pull translations back: scripts/pull-translations.sh
5. Build and verify

Architecture

SwiftUI + UIKit hybrid. SwiftUI handles navigation and settings, UIKit's UITextView powers the editor for full control over text input, syntax highlighting, and keyboard interaction.

Module	Purpose
App/	App entry, main layout, tab store
Editor/	Text editor, syntax highlighting, list handling
Settings/	Settings UI and persistence
TabGrid/	Tab grid expose view
Clipboard/	Clipboard history and iCloud sync