Menu bar app
Notes that live in your menu bar, not your Dock
A notes app you keep for quick thoughts shouldn’t demand a Dock slot, a full window and a cmd-tab of its own. Flyout sits quietly in your menu bar; the notes themselves come to you — sliding out from the edge of the screen when you ask, and back out of sight when you’re done.
For macOS 14 Sonoma and later. iPhone and iPad app included. No account, no subscription.
Quiet until you need it
Flyout lives in the menu bar and stays out of your Dock and app switcher. The panel opens from the screen edge or a global shortcut (⌥⌘N by default — you can change it), right over whatever you’re doing.
Track the next step inside the note
Type /todo to give each task a status, such as in progress, in review or done. Add your own statuses and keep the instructions, images and next steps together. Use /check when a simple tick box is enough.
Native and light
It’s a real Mac app — built with AppKit and SwiftUI, notarized by Apple, with a translucent surface that follows the system’s light and dark appearance. No browser engine idling in the background.
Your notes stay yours
Every note is plain Markdown. Optional iCloud sync runs through your own iCloud account — nothing about your notes touches our servers, and everything works offline.
Even tables fit
Paste a table from a page or a spreadsheet and it stays a table: edit any cell, add rows and columns from the edge handles, drag the whole thing somewhere else in the note. Paste that into a plain-text notepad and you get one long line instead.
Questions
- Does it show up in the Dock?
- Not unless you want it to. Flyout runs as a menu-bar app by default; showing a Dock icon is an option, not a requirement.
- Is it an Electron app?
- No. The shell is native AppKit and SwiftUI. It behaves like part of macOS — vibrancy, system appearance, native notifications — because it is.
- Can I open it with a keyboard shortcut?
- Yes — ⌥⌘N out of the box, and you can record your own shortcut in Settings. The screen-edge gesture works alongside it.
For macOS 14 Sonoma and later. One-time $24 — no subscription.
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