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How I Forensically Analyzed a macOS App That Ripped Off My Open-Source Project

February 24, 2026

I’m Konstantin Zaremski, the author of Apple Notes Exporter, a free and open-source macOS app for bulk exporting Apple Notes. I’ve been building and maintaining it since 2023, and in October 2025 I released version 1.0, a ground-up rewrite in Swift that directly queries the Apple Notes database for performance.