Noticky
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Native · Menubar-resident · macOS 15+

Sticky notes that live in your menu bar.

Native macOS sticky notes and quick capture — global hotkey, multi-window floats, Markdown, and optional iCloud sync. No Dock icon, no clutter.

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Requires macOS 15.0 or later · Free & open source · Auto-updates via Sparkle

Noticky manager window — sidebar groups, search, note list

Floating sticky notes

A 6-color palette and three layout modes. Pin a note and it auto-restores on next launch — quit the app without losing your working set.

  • Free — place anywhere on screen.
  • Stack — cascade; selecting a note slides it to the bottom for full visibility.
  • Tile — auto-arranged grid; drag a note to reorder.
  • Float-on-top, double-click to collapse, inactive-note fade — all toggleable.
Stack layout animation

Tile, reorder, glance

Tile mode auto-arranges every open note into a grid. Drag one and the rest reflow around it — your whole board at a glance.

Tile layout animation

Everything, one keystroke away

Noticky lives in your menu bar — no Dock icon, no main-menu noise. One click for a new note, your recent notes, show/hide all stickies, the manager, layout, and settings.

  • Recent notes listed right in the menu — jump to any of them instantly.
  • Show / Hide All Stickies to clear or recall your whole working set at once.
  • 100% native AppKit + SwiftUI — fast, light, no Electron.
Noticky menu bar dropdown — recent notes, new note, show/hide all, manager, layout, settings

Quick Capture, anywhere

A global hotkey (default ⌘⇧N, fully customizable) opens a capture window from any app. Pull in the selected text via the Accessibility API, the clipboard, or start blank.

  • AX + whitelist — grab the frontmost app's selected text (per bundle ID).
  • Clipboard only — pre-fill with clipboard contents, no AX call.
  • Disabled — a blank window for a fresh thought.
Noticky quick-capture window opened by global hotkey, with Save / New line / Cancel

Plain text or Markdown

Write in plain text or Markdown — a native NSTextView editor, nothing proprietary. One tap toggles between the editable source and a rendered view.

  • Edit view — your raw text / Markdown, fully selectable and portable.
  • Rendered view — headings, lists, task checkboxes, code blocks (via Textual).
  • Global font size (12–24), applied live to every open window.
Noticky editing a Markdown note — headings, task list, fenced code in the source view

Manager window

A native sidebar — groups, Ungrouped, Trash. Drag notes into groups, full-text search, right-click rename/move, and multi-select bulk actions.

Soft delete & Trash

Deletions go to Trash. Items older than N days (default 30, configurable 7–365) are purged on launch — same as macOS Notes and Mail.

Import · Export · Backup

Single-note or batch Markdown export, plus whole-library export/import (SQLite or Markdown). Restore is non-destructive — dedupes by UUID.

Optional iCloud sync

Off by default. Once enabled, live cross-Mac sync via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. Verified with China iCloud.

Bilingual

Bundled English and Simplified Chinese. Follows the system locale, or force it in Settings → General.

Data safety first

On a store-load failure Noticky never silently wipes — it backs up the sqlite/shm/wal triple to your Desktop and alerts before quitting.

Free & open source

Signed, notarized, and fully open source. Auto-updates itself via Sparkle. macOS 15+.

Get Noticky

Free and open source. Download the signed, notarized build — it auto-updates itself from then on.

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Requires macOS 15.0 or later · Free & open source · Auto-updates via Sparkle