Instant access, anywhere
Rest your pointer on the screen edge or hit the global shortcut. The panel is over your work before you finish the thought — no window management, no app switch.
Flyout macOS
Notes for Mac. One gesture away.
Capture a thought without leaving your work. Notes, tasks and reminders slide in from the edge of your screen, then tuck away when you’re done.
For macOS 14 Sonoma and later. iPhone app included. No account, no subscription.
Your notes, at the screen edge
See it in action
One gesture. Code blocks, tasks, images, reminders.
Features
Fast like a scratchpad. Structured like a real editor.
A real editor, not a scratchpad
Slash commands, headings, task lists, syntax-highlighted code blocks, inline images, colour and highlight. Your notes keep the structure your work has. Every note is stored as plain Markdown on disk.
Overdue
Reply to the notarization ticket9:40 AM
Today
Cut 1.0.1 with the keychain fix6:00 PM
Standup notesTue 9:00 AM
Completed
Ship the edge triggerYesterday
Launch plan
Move token refresh out of AppDelegate — it races the keychain unlock on cold start.
Gate refresh behind keychain unlock
ReminderGate refresh behind keychain unlock
10 minutes1 hourTomorrow
Reminders that live inside the note
Set a reminder on a note — or on the exact sentence you selected. Overdue, today, upcoming and completed group into their own tab. Repeat daily or weekly, snooze straight from the notification, and click through to land back on the highlighted line.
Sprint2/6Notes
- Rework the onboarding copy
- Write the migration note
- Test checkout end to end
- Tag the release
- Backport to 1.1
- Bump the version
In the note- [in-progress] Write the migration note
To-dos with a status, not just a tick box
Type /todo for a list whose lines carry a stage — backlog, in progress, in review, done — each with its own colour and icon. Click the icon to move a line along. Add statuses of your own in Settings, and they follow you to iPhone. The stage is stored in the note itself as plain text, so it travels with the file.
Search
client
Acme kickoffScope, timeline, who owns what2 hours agoclientdemo
Demo scriptOpen with the screen edgeYesterdayclient
Tags that cut across folders
Tag a note as you write, with autocomplete against the tags you already use so “meeting” doesn’t quietly become three. Filter by one tag or several at once — the list flattens across every folder, and each tag can carry a colour.
This Mac
Launch plan
Gate refresh behind keychain unlock
Reproduce on cold start
MacBook Air
Launch plan
Gate refresh behind keychain unlock
Reproduce on cold start
The same notes on every Mac
iCloud keeps every note, folder and reminder in sync across your Macs — through your own iCloud account. Nothing passes through our servers, and it all still works offline.
Weekly review
Ship the export fix, then look at2 min ago
Bank
Unlock to readYesterday
Lock a note behind a password
Some notes shouldn’t be readable by whoever opens your Mac. Lock one and its text, tags and attachments are encrypted with a key derived from your password — the plain text is deleted from disk, not just hidden from the list. Touch ID reopens it in a second; the vault closes again when your screen locks or after a few idle minutes.
And the rest of it
Everything that fits in a note
- Any file up to 50 MB, copied into the note instead of linked to a path — so it is still there when the note reaches your other Mac.
- Paste a table from a page or a document and it stays a table, editable cell by cell.
- Type :shortcode: or pick from a grid — emoji without leaving the keyboard.
Stays tidy
- Folders you drag notes into, right inside the list. Flat by design: a note is in one folder, or none.
- Pin the notes you keep coming back to, and search the whole library from one field.
- Find and replace inside the note you are writing — case-sensitive and whole-word matching, and Replace All undoes in one step.
Yours to keep
- Every note is stored as plain Markdown on disk — there is no proprietary format to get out of.
- Export a note, a folder or everything at once, as PDF, Markdown or plain text.
Part of macOS
- Native AppKit and SwiftUI, notarized, running on Apple Silicon and Intel — not a web app in a wrapper.
- Keep a note on your desktop with a widget that opens straight into it.
Appearance
Looks the way you want
Fifteen named themes alongside Light and Dark — seven dark and eight light. Pick one from the theme icon in the panel header or in Settings; the theme you pick does not change when macOS switches.
Note color
Give a note its own paper colour: thirty-eight to choose from plus a custom one, independent of the theme, so a yellow note stays yellow in dark mode.
Why Flyout
Close at hand, and still a real editor.
You already have somewhere to put a note. The problem is what happens to it there.
Rich enough — in another app, behind your editor, in a window you have to go find. By the time you dig it out, the thought’s gone.
Instant — and flat. The task list is just dashes, the screenshot never fit in the first place, the code loses its highlighting.
Flyout
As fast as a scratchpad, with an editor that holds task lists, images, reminders and real code blocks — one gesture away from any app.
Mobile app
The same notes, in your pocket.
A note you write on the Mac opens on your iPhone, and a line you catch on the phone comes back to the Mac — same iCloud account, same editor. The iPhone app is included when you buy Flyout here.
Pricing
One price. Yours for good.
Mac + iPhone lifetime license
Launch pricing ends 30 September 2026 — the list price is $24.
- Mac and iPhone apps included
- iCloud sync between your Mac and iPhone
- Reminders on any note — or an exact line
- Folders you drag notes into
- Code blocks, tasks, images and Markdown
- Works offline — no Flyout account required
- Use on 5 devices · every future update to the Mac app
No renewal fee and no card on file — new versions arrive through the built-in updater.
Questions
- Is there an iPhone app?
- Yes. Buy Flyout here once and the same license unlocks Flyout on your Mac and iPhone. Sign in to the iPhone app with the email address used at checkout; if you enable iCloud sync, both apps use the same library through your own iCloud account. An iPhone-only purchase is also available through the App Store.
- Does it sync between Macs?
- Yes. iCloud sync keeps your notes current across your Macs. It runs on your own iCloud account — nothing passes through our servers, and everything still works offline.
- Can I lock a note with a password?
- Yes. Locking a note encrypts its text, tags and attachments with a key derived from your password, and the plain text is removed from the database rather than just hidden from the list. Touch ID reopens it; the vault relocks when your screen locks or after a few idle minutes. Locked notes are left out of exports, the widget and the copy commands. Flyout cannot reset your password — setup gives you a recovery code once, and that code is the only way back in if you forget it.
- Can I organise notes into folders?
- Yes. Folders fold open right inside the notes list — drag a note onto one to file it, drag it back out to unfile it. They are flat by design: a note lives in exactly one folder, or none. Nesting is not supported. Tags cut across them: tag a note and filter the library by one tag or several at once.
- Can I attach files to a note?
- Yes — any kind of file, up to 50 MB each. The file is copied into the note rather than linked to a path on disk, so it is still there when the note syncs to your other Mac, and when the original is moved or deleted. Click a file to open it in its usual app, or right-click to save a copy. Files with an extension macOS can execute are revealed in the Finder instead of opened, since a note can arrive from another device.
- Can I get my notes out?
- Yes. Export a note, a quick page, a folder, or your whole library, as PDF, Markdown or plain text. Markdown exports carry images and attachments into an assets folder next to the file, with the links rewritten to point there — so the export opens correctly in any editor, not only in Flyout.
- Which macOS versions are supported?
- macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
- Is it a subscription?
- No. You pay once for the Mac and iPhone apps, including every future update to the Mac app. There is no renewal fee and no card is kept on file.
- Do reminders need an account?
- No. Reminders are scheduled through the macOS notification centre on your own Mac. Nothing about a note or its reminder ever leaves the device.
- How many Macs can I use it on?
- Five at a time. If you replace a machine, release its seat from Settings and activate the new one — the license stays yours.
- What kind of app is Flyout?
- Flyout is a native macOS menu-bar app: an always-available rich-text note panel that slides out from the edge of your screen. It is built for developers and anyone who writes — with code blocks, task lists, reminders and Markdown, one gesture from any app.
- Is there a notes app that slides out from the screen edge on Mac?
- Yes — that is exactly what Flyout does. Nudge the right edge or press ⌥⌘N and a full editor flies out over your work, then slides away when you step back.
- I already use Raycast — do I need Flyout?
- They do different jobs. Raycast Notes is a scratchpad built for capture: one text-only note at a time, in a window you dismiss. Flyout is built for the note that stays open beside your work — tabs and folders, images, code blocks, and reminders you can pin to a single line, syncing through your own iCloud. If you only jot and move on, Raycast Notes is enough and you have already paid for it. If notes live next to your work, that is the job Flyout does — there is a full, honest comparison on our compare page.