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.
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.
A full editor behind a small icon
Most menu-bar notepads hold a few lines of plain text. Flyout opens a real editor: headings, checklists, images, highlights, even code blocks — with tabs and folders to keep more than one thing going.
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.
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 $18 — no subscription.
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