Comparison
Flyout vs Antinote
Antinote is a lovely, cheap, opinionated app, and its opinion is the opposite of ours. Its own manual says it: “Antinote is meant for temporary notes, so storing, organizing, and searching features will continue to be barebones.” Notes you do not touch are deleted on a schedule you choose. That is a feature — and it is the whole difference. Flyout is for notes you intend to keep.
| Feature | Antinote | Flyout |
|---|---|---|
| What happens to a note | Unmodified notes auto-delete on a schedule (today / week / month / year) | Notes stay until you delete them |
| Organisation | None, by design — no folders, no tags | Folders and tabs |
| Sync | None in the shipping release (iCloud sync is in the 2.0 beta) | iCloud sync through your own Apple ID |
| Images in a note | No embedding — drop an image in and it is converted to text (OCR) | Paste, drag in, resize |
| Reminders | Timers and pomodoros — no dates, no due dates | On a whole note, or on one selected line, with repeats |
| Opening it | Global hotkey, menu bar or dock | Screen edge or hotkey — and it slides away on its own |
| Price | $5 once | $18 once, on two Macs |
Where Antinote wins
It is five dollars, and it is worth more than that. It has a contextual calculator with named variables, currency and unit conversion; timers and pomodoros with full-screen alerts; OCR when you drop in an image; one-click export to Obsidian, Bear and Apple Notes; and Raycast and Alfred integrations. It also has proper syntax-highlighted code blocks, same as Flyout. If your notes are disposable, buy Antinote — genuinely. Flyout is the other half of the problem: the note you will still want in three weeks.
Checked against each app’s own documentation in July 2026. These apps ship often — if you spot something out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
Is Flyout right for you?
If you live in the keyboard — writing code, tracking tasks, keeping notes next to your editor — Flyout keeps up. Try it free for 7 days; no account, everything stays on your Mac.