Invisible until you need it
No Dock icon. No menu bar icon. The edge dock's own buttons and three global shortcuts are the only way in.
For Mac, iPhone & iPad
Your notes, one hover away.
On the Mac, CapsulePad docks a thin pill of colored notes to the edge of your screen — no Dock icon, no menu bar icon, just hover to fan out a tab. Every note syncs in seconds to a companion app on iPhone and iPad, so it's never stuck on one machine.
Background utility for macOS 14 Sonoma or later, plus a Universal app for iPhone & iPad on iOS 17+.
Everything a sticky note needs, nothing it doesn't.
No heavyweight notes app. A fast, native 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 an optional confirmation you can turn off in Settings.
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.
Lock a note
Gate any note behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode — real encryption, not just a UI cover, with the title always visible so you still know what it is.
Export & import anytime
Take everything out as Markdown, plain text, or a full-fidelity CapsulePad archive — and import that archive right back in. Your notes are never locked in.
Syncs in seconds via CloudKit
Turn on iCloud sync and changes push to your other devices in seconds, not minutes — through your own private iCloud database, not a server of ours.
Now on iPhone & iPad
A Universal companion app shares every note over iCloud, with its own native list in place of the edge dock and the same editor for writing.
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.
Pick your display
Running more than one monitor? Choose exactly which one the dock lives on from Settings.
Clickable links
URLs in a note's body are detected automatically — click one to open it in your browser.
Local-first storage
Every note is saved on-device first, via SwiftData — iCloud sync is an extra, never a requirement, and everything still works offline.
Private by design
No account, no analytics SDK. Your notes stay on your devices, 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
CloudKit Sync
6 Accent Colors
Face ID / Touch ID Lock
Export & Import
Multi-Monitor
Clickable Links
Your notes stay on your devices — and your iCloud.
CapsulePad saves every note locally first — on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad via SwiftData. There's no account, and no server of ours is ever in the path of what you write.
Turn on iCloud sync and CapsulePad uses Apple's CloudKit, in your own private iCloud database — not a service we run — to push changes to your other devices in seconds. Want an extra layer of privacy on a specific note? Lock it behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode; it's real encryption, re-checked every time you open it.
Read the full privacy policy →
Available now on the App Store.
CapsulePad 1.0 is live for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Mac (macOS 14+) · iPhone & iPad (iOS 17+)