Notes, to-dos, calendar, habits and clipboard history in one app for Mac and Windows. Everything stays on your own computer — no account, no cloud, no telemetry. $7.99 once, no subscription. macOS 12+ (notarized) or Windows 10+ via the Microsoft Store.

In January 2025 I sat down to cancel one subscription and ended up cancelling five: a notes app, a to-do app, a calendar, a habit tracker, a clipboard manager. About $260 a year. The money was not really the problem. The problem was Tuesdays. A thought arrives in a meeting, so it goes in the notes app. It turns out to have a deadline, so a task goes in the to-do app. The deadline is Thursday, so a block goes in the calendar. Nothing was ever lost inside any one of those apps — every one of them was well made. Things were lost between them, in the seams, where the connective tissue was me, doing it by hand, several times a day, forever. Cyanote is one window with one search box across all of it: notes, to-dos and a board, calendar, habits, routines, a Pomodoro timer, and a system-wide clipboard manager. Two things are actually different. It is local-first — everything is a SQLite database on your own Mac, there is no account, and it works with the wifi off. And it is $10 once rather than $10 a month, which means I have no structural reason to grow features you did not ask for. The honest costs: macOS only for now, no sync between machines, no phone app. What I would like from you: tell me the one thing that would stop this being your daily driver. I will be here all day.

As written in the description, it allows to have all my main workflows of the day in one place, very comfortable

More AI native features are always welcome, but I understand that for this low price it is impossible to support. If possible to insert an api key for this kind of stuff it will be awesome!

As written in the description, it allows to have all my main workflows of the day in one place, very comfortable

More AI native features are always welcome, but I understand that for this low price it is impossible to support. If possible to insert an api key for this kind of stuff it will be awesome!

Cyanote

Notes, tasks and habits in one app for Mac and Windows

Notes, tasks and habits in one app for Mac and Windows

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