Lives at the screen's edge
A dock-icon-free pill of colored dashes tucked against either edge of your screen — out of the way until you need it.
For Mac · Menu Bar Utility
Your notes, one hover away.
CapsulePad docks a thin pill of colored notes to the edge of your screen. Bring your pointer close and it fans out into a labeled tab — click to open it full-size, or drive the whole thing from the keyboard without ever touching the mouse.
Menu-bar utility for macOS 14 Sonoma or later. An iPhone & iPad companion is planned.
Everything a sticky note needs, nothing it doesn't.
No heavyweight notes app. A fast, native menu-bar tool that stays out of the way until the exact moment you need it.
Hover to fan out
Move the pointer close and the pill opens into one labeled tab at a time, sized to fit its own title — not a fixed, oversized bar.
One tidy window
A combined Notes & Settings window behind a simple segmented control — no separate popups to hunt for.
Search your notes
Filter the notes list instantly, active or archived, without leaving the keyboard.
Six accent colors
CapsulePad auto-varies each new note's color for you, or pick your own default from Settings.
Drag to reorder
Reorder from the dock or the notes list — both stay perfectly in sync, since they share one order.
Archive or delete
Soft-archive a note for later, or permanently delete it with a confirmation — your call, either state.
Full-size note windows
Open any note from the dock in its own window, sized to what you're writing.
Slide-out drawer
Tap a note in the list and edit it right there in a drawer, without leaving the window you're in.
Global shortcuts, no permissions
⌥⌘N new note, ⌥⌘A open, ⌥⌘L archive the frontmost note — all without asking for Accessibility access.
Syncs across your Macs
Mirrors your notes through your own iCloud Drive, with a live folder watcher that picks up another Mac's changes while you work — not just at launch.
Local-first storage
Every note is saved on your Mac first, via SwiftData — iCloud sync is an extra, never a requirement.
Liquid Glass, natively
A real glass dock and toolbars on macOS 26, with clean material fallbacks all the way back to Sonoma.
Dock either edge
Left or right side of the screen — whichever side stays out of your other windows' way.
Native & lightweight
100% Swift, no Electron, no background bloat. It launches instantly and stays out of the way until called on.
Private by design
No account, no analytics SDK. Your notes stay on your Mac, and on your own iCloud if you turn sync on.
Keyboard-first, mouse-optional.
Every core action has a shortcut that works from anywhere on your Mac — no need to find the dock or open a window first.
⌥⌘N New Note
⌥⌘A Open
⌥⌘L Archive Frontmost
Left or Right Edge
Search
Drag to Reorder
Archive
Permanent Delete
iCloud Sync
6 Accent Colors
Your notes stay on your Mac — and your iCloud.
CapsulePad saves every note locally in a SwiftData store on your Mac. There's no account, and no server of ours is ever in the path of what you write.
Turn on iCloud sync and CapsulePad mirrors your notes as plain files through your own iCloud Drive — the same account you already use, not a service we run. A live folder watcher picks up another Mac's changes while CapsulePad is open, not just at the next launch.
Read the full privacy policy →
Coming soon to the Mac App Store.
CapsulePad is finishing up before its debut — check back soon.
Coming SoonFor Mac · macOS 14 Sonoma or later