Sticky notes that know where they belong. Pin a note to any window, tab, document, folder, conversation, or task — it appears only when you're looking at it, hides when you leave, and returns when you come back. No clutter, no lost notes.
Regular sticky-note apps dump everything on your desktop at once. Tack flips it: each note lives with its context.
Leave a note on a client's email thread, a specific Notion page, a court file in Finder, a DaVinci color page — and it quietly reappears the moment you return, then gets out of your way when you leave.
It's the difference between a wall of forgotten stickies and a note that's waiting for you exactly when and where you need it.
Open a Google Sheet and its notes appear. Switch to another sheet — different notes. Close it and they wait exactly where you left them.
Talking points anchored to a specific iMessage conversation. Surface the moment you open that chat. Never blank on what you needed to say.
A note on a Finder folder, a ClickUp task, a Discord thread, a DaVinci color page. Each one waiting exactly where you need it.
"TackNote started as a sticky note I needed to write on a browser window. I couldn't. So I built the tool that should have existed."
Tack works with every app at the window level. With the apps you use most it goes further — scoping to the exact tab, file, folder, conversation, or task.
Pro tip: the web version of an app often integrates more deeply than its desktop app — used in a browser, Teams, Outlook, Slack, and Notion are all Full automatically.
Scopes to the exact tab, file, or folder — and Reveal jumps you straight back to it.
Scopes to the exact item and jumps back — best effort.
Scopes to the exact conversation or folder. Reveal opens the app.
Anchors to the app window — hides when you switch away, returns when you come back. Works with every macOS app, no setup.
Press your shortcut (fully customizable) and a note pins to the exact window, tab, document, folder, or conversation in front of you.
Switch apps, tabs, or Spaces and the note vanishes instantly. No clutter, no overlap — out of sight everywhere it doesn't belong.
Come back to that window or tab and your note is right there. Survives quit, relaunch, reboot, and Space switches automatically.
Click Reveal from anywhere and Tack jumps back to the exact URL, file, folder, project, page, or task the note belongs to.
Everything you'd want from a note — plus the things you didn't know you needed.
A text side and a checklist side in every note. High-contrast checkboxes, live "N of M complete" tracker, and completed items that collapse out of the way.
One pin, many notes. Stack full notes as flaps behind a single pin, flip between them, drag flaps on and off. Whole stacks move together with Re-stick.
Record voice memos right on a note. On-device transcription — private, free, searchable. All-Notes board searches across text, checklists, labels, URLs, and transcripts.
Time reminders with presets or custom times. "Nudge me next time I open this" — the note pulses when you return to its home. A persistent indicator so no reminder is ever lost.
Stick a note to any window, tab, document, folder, conversation, or task. It hides when you leave, returns when you come back. Free-floating desktop notes too when you want the classic style.
Re-bind any note to a new window or tab without recreating it. If the thing a note was stuck to disappears, it moves to "Needs a Home" in TackBoard — never lost, always recoverable.
Notes (styled text), To-do (checklist with live N of M tracker), Split (text and checklist together), and Sketch (freehand drawing canvas with pen, eraser, colors, and brush sizes). One note, four modes.
A full corkboard of every note as a live editable card. Search across text, checklists, transcripts, and URLs. Sidebar slices by App, Project, Reminders, Needs a Home, and Recently Closed.
Cross-app folders to organize notes your way. Create sub-folders inside projects, drag notes into them, collapse sections. Deleting a folder never deletes the notes — they just un-file.
Classic (Default, Boxy), Paper (Premium Sticky, Kraft, Ruled, Graph, Dot Grid, Linen, Comic), and Glass (Dark, Light, Neon Dark, Neon Light, Prism with real frosted-glass vibrancy). Applied live, instantly.
One pin, many full-note flaps fanned like real stickies. Flip between them with a leapfrog animation. Stack related notes on one window to keep the screen clean.
Record straight onto a note, play inline, delete. On-device transcription — private, free, never leaves your Mac. Transcripts are searchable in TackBoard and can be dropped into the note body.
Quick presets or custom date and time. "Nudge me next time I open this" pulses the note on return. A red dot on the menu-bar icon persists until you clear it — never silently lost.
Every note is a key back to its context. One click and Tack opens the exact URL, file, folder, DaVinci project page, or conversation — and navigates to the right place inside it.
Notes live on your Mac. Transcription runs on-device. The only network calls are to Lemon Squeezy for license activation. No account required, no cloud, no tracking.
Tack reads which window is active and which file or tab is open — that's the entire anchoring trick. Same permissions Rectangle, yabai, and BetterTouchTool use. Read-only. No screen recording. No keylogging.
Stick a note, then fill it with text, to-dos, a sketch, a recolor, a voice memo, and a reminder — stack a few together — then switch away and watch it tuck out of sight until you’re back.
Your notes live with their context — but when you want the bird's-eye view, the TackBoard pins every one to a corkboard. File them into Projects and sub-folders, group and filter, and edit a card right there — changes sync straight back to the live note.
Finder-style filing across apps — one project per client or job, sub-folders inside. Notes never have to leave their context to be organized.
Slice by App, Project, or sub-folder with collapsible sections, and search across text, checklists, labels, URLs, and voice transcripts.
Each card is 1:1 with its sticky — same theme and controls. Edit it, expand it into a full editor, or hit Reveal to jump to where it's tacked.
Same app, same one-time price — here's how it fits the apps you live in all day.
Notes anchored to email threads, meeting tabs, iMessage conversations, and client folders. Never lose context on a client again.
Pin notes to a repo tab, a Linear issue, a localhost page, or a Finder project folder. Local-first, private, no account.
Per-document notes in Photoshop, Illustrator, and per-page in DaVinci Resolve. Feedback and to-dos right on the file.
Keep notes tacked to the right research tab, doc, or Google Sheet. Educational pricing at $14.99 with a valid .edu email.
macOS only · Apple Silicon + Intel · Developer ID signed & notarized · Direct download · No App Store
One key, more seats. Activate TackNote on every Mac your license covers, and move a seat anytime by deactivating it. Each Mac counts as one seat.
Volume licensing covers the app on multiple Macs — it isn't shared notes. Every person's notes stay private to them, encrypted on their own Mac.
Get notified when Tack ships, new app integrations drop, and when the price goes up.
Every note is sealed with AES-256 encryption the moment you write it — the key lives in your Mac’s Keychain, never on a server. Switch on iCloud sync and your notes stay end-to-end encrypted across your devices through Apple’s CloudKit: encrypted on your Mac before they leave it, and readable only by you. No accounts, no trackers, no servers we control. Not even we can read your notes.