Native macOS · Apple Silicon + Intel

Stick. Tack. Go.

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.

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End-to-end encrypted No account No tracking
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon + Intel · 14-day free trial · $24.99 one-time · 2-Mac license · end-to-end encrypted
Safari
Safari
Chrome
Chrome
Firefox
Firefox
Brave
Brave
Dia
Dia
Word
Word
Excel
Excel
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Outlook
Outlook
Mail
Mail
iMessage
iMessage
Slack
Slack
Teams
Teams
Discord
Discord
Photoshop
Photoshop
Illustrator
Illustrator
Affinity
Affinity
Lightroom
Lightroom
DaVinci
DaVinci
Fusion
Fusion
Logic Pro
Logic Pro
Motion
Motion
Blender
Blender
Notion
Notion
ClickUp
ClickUp
Photos
Photos
Finder
Finder
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Every notes app puts notes on top of your work.

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.

"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."

It was early in the day. I needed to remind myself to push a sandbox site to production, but I didn't want to take the site down at peak traffic. I had nowhere clean to write it — not on the window I was watching, not tied to the moment I needed to act. A floating sticky note wasn't the answer. It would just get buried.

So I built TackNote.

I forgot to push the site anyway. But that won't happen again.

Works with every app.
Goes deeper where you live.

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.

Full integration

Scopes to the exact tab, file, or folder — and Reveal jumps you straight back to it.

🌐
All web browsers
Safari · Chrome · Brave · Arc · Firefox and any web app. Per tab, exact URL, full per-sheet scoping in Google Sheets and Slides.
🖼️
Photoshop · Illustrator · Affinity
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator plus Affinity Photo, Designer & Publisher. Per open document — Reveal reopens the file.
📄
Microsoft Word · Excel · PowerPoint
Per document, workbook, or presentation. Reveal reopens the file (handles local & OneDrive paths).
📁
Finder
Per folder and per file. Reveal opens the exact location.
Deep integration

Scopes to the exact item and jumps back — best effort.

🎬
DaVinci Resolve
Per project and page — Edit, Color, Fairlight, Fusion. Reveal jumps to the page when the project's already open; otherwise it opens Resolve so you pick it (no crash-prone force-load).
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iMessage · Notion · ClickUp · Discord · Apple Photos
Per conversation, page, task, channel, or album / photo.
Basic integration

Scopes to the exact conversation or folder. Reveal opens the app.

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Microsoft Teams · Outlook · Slack
Per conversation or folder. Use the web version for Full integration automatically.
Window level

Anchors to the app window — hides when you switch away, returns when you come back. Works with every macOS app, no setup.

💻
VS Code · Xcode · Terminal
Per app window.
🎵
Logic Pro · Ableton · Spotify
Per app window.
📹
Zoom · FaceTime
Per app window.
Every other macOS app
If it has a window, Tack can stick to it.
Want deeper integration for your app? Request it →

Simple to start.
Powerful once it clicks.

1

Anchor

Press your shortcut (fully customizable) and a note pins to the exact window, tab, document, folder, or conversation in front of you.

2

Hide

Switch apps, tabs, or Spaces and the note vanishes instantly. No clutter, no overlap — out of sight everywhere it doesn't belong.

3

Return

Come back to that window or tab and your note is right there. Survives quit, relaunch, reboot, and Space switches automatically.

4

Reveal

Click Reveal from anywhere and Tack jumps back to the exact URL, file, folder, project, page, or task the note belongs to.

Core capabilities

A real note.
Not just a text box.

Everything you'd want from a note — plus the things you didn't know you needed.

01

Notes + To-Dos

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.

Notes tab To-do tab Live tracker
02

Stick & Peel

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.

⇧⌃⌥⌘N Re-stick Carry mode
03

Voice & Search

Record voice memos right on a note. On-device transcription — private, free, searchable. All-Notes board searches across text, checklists, labels, URLs, and transcripts.

Voice memos Transcription All-Notes search
04

Reminders

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.

Time-based Context-triggered Persistent badge
Full feature list

Built for people who live in their apps.

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Anchor to anything

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.

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Re-stick & Orphaned notes

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.

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Four content tabs

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.

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TackBoard

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.

📁

Projects & sub-folders

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.

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12 themes

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.

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Stick & Peel

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.

🎙️

Voice memos

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.

Reminders

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.

📌

Reveal

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.

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Private by default

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.

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Why Accessibility access?

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.

A note, start to finish.

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.

The TackBoard

Every note you've stuck.
One board.

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.

🗂️ Projects & sub-folders

Finder-style filing across apps — one project per client or job, sub-folders inside. Notes never have to leave their context to be organized.

🔎 Group, filter & search

Slice by App, Project, or sub-folder with collapsible sections, and search across text, checklists, labels, URLs, and voice transcripts.

↔︎ Live, editable cards

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.

Who it's for

Built for the way you work.

Same app, same one-time price — here's how it fits the apps you live in all day.

💼

For business & client work →

Notes anchored to email threads, meeting tabs, iMessage conversations, and client folders. Never lose context on a client again.

⌨️

For developers →

Pin notes to a repo tab, a Linear issue, a localhost page, or a Finder project folder. Local-first, private, no account.

🎨

For creatives →

Per-document notes in Photoshop, Illustrator, and per-page in DaVinci Resolve. Feedback and to-dos right on the file.

🎓

For students →

Keep notes tacked to the right research tab, doc, or Google Sheet. Educational pricing at $14.99 with a valid .edu email.

One price.
Yours forever.

Launch Price — Limited Time
$24.99
One-time purchase · No subscription · Ever. $29.99 regular
  • 14-day free trial — no card required
  • Full, Deep, Basic, and Window-level app integration
  • Notes · To-do · Split · Sketch — four content tabs
  • TackBoard — full corkboard organizer with Projects
  • 12 themes — Classic, Paper, and Glass families
  • Stick & Peel stacked notes with fanned visual
  • Re-stick — carry a note to any new context
  • Voice memos with on-device private transcription
  • Reminders — time-based + context-triggered nudges
  • Apple Silicon + Intel · macOS 13+ · 1 person, up to 2 Macs
Get TackNote — $24.99

macOS only · Apple Silicon + Intel · Developer ID signed & notarized · Direct download · No App Store

More than two Macs?

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.

Most popular
5 Seats
$99
5 Macs · one-time · ~$20/seat
Everything in TackNote, on up to 5 Macs. One key, one invoice.
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25 Seats
$399
25 Macs · one-time · ~$16/seat
For departments. Up to 25 Macs on a single license.
Buy 25 seats →
Custom
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Pick your seat count · volume pricing
Need 50, 100, or more? We'll set up a license for your exact seat count.
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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.

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End-to-end encrypted

Private by design. Yours alone.

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.