Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to WhimNotes
A native Mac scratchpad that's always one keystroke away
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey! I made Heynote entirely for my own use case. For many years, I always had an Emacs instance running with the scratch buffer open, even long after I had abandoned Emacs as my programming editor in favor of more recent IDE:s. The simplicity of having just one big scratch buffer appeals to me, but I still want to separate the different things I jot down somehow (without using tabs or similar). Previously, my solution was to insert a bunch of blank lines between the notes, but hitting C-A would still select the entire buffer. That's why I came up with the concept of "blocks", which turned…
2023 · heynote.com · its alternatives →
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If Apple Notes and ChatGPT had a baby
2024 · timeless.day · its alternatives →
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SideNotes▲311A beautiful note taking app with superpowers. It shows and hides on the side of your monitor to manage your notes distraction-free. Keep your notes organised, personalised and always at your fingertips. Markdown, tasks, pictures, colors, folders included.
2025 · apptorium.com · its alternatives →
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Thought Train▲375Stop using sticky notes to remember what you're doing 📒 🚫
2018 · thoughtsformac.com · its alternatives →
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PopNotes▲96The notes app that lives in the menu bar of your Mac
2020 · serialcoder.dev · its alternatives →
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Notebag▲298A keyboard-focused note-taking app that gets out of your way
2020 · notebag.app · its alternatives →
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NoteTabs▲129Native macOS text editor with horizontal tabs & auto-restore
Jan 2026 · notetabs.azurewebsites.net · its alternatives →
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Brain;Notes▲61Scrapbook-like notepad app using sticky notes for iPadOS
2022 · brainnotes.magickworx.com · its alternatives →
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PeekNote▲176Lightweight always-on-top notes for devs & multitaskers
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dumbnote▲141Offline-first Markdown note app. No lock-in. Just write.
2025 · dumbnote.app · its alternatives →
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MinkNote▲157Private macOS notes app built on plain Markdown files. No databases, no lock-in. Native, keyboard-first, and designed for knowledge organization.
Jul 2026 · muse23.com · its alternatives →
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MadNotes PRO▲72Browser's new tab markdown notepad for seamless productivity
2023 · madnotes.app · its alternatives →
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MadNotes ▲71The most convenient markdown notepad, opened in the new tab
2022 · madnotes.app · its alternatives →
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One list of notes, for you and your AI agents
Feb 2026 · gravitynotes.app · its alternatives →
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i stan apple notes, so i built a new personal website to look, feel, & work just like it. it's fast, fully interactive, & can be navigated entirely via keyboard shortcuts. it was a lot of fun to build. i wrote more about the implementation in the linked page. check it out!
2024 · alanagoyal.com · its alternatives →
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Notes SE▲67Simple light-weight notepad on all Apple devices
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Unfriction▲69Instant local notes for macOS to capture thoughts in <400ms
Jan 2026 · unfriction.app · its alternatives →
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Flyout▲101A notes app for Mac that flies out from your screen edge. Code blocks, task lists, images and reminders — always one gesture away. For macOS 14 or later.
Jul 2026 · getflyout.app · its alternatives →
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My Downloads folder had been left unkept for a really long time and cleaning it up using Finder was quite cumbersome. So I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the files in the folder. It started out very basic and the filtering options genuinely helped me clean out the Downloads folder, then as I thought of more features I would like to see in a file manager I started to add them. Some of the features are: - Fuzzy go to folder/file where you only need to write a few letters of a full path, get suggestions and can jump to the correct path instantly -…
Jul 2026 · whimfiles.com · its alternatives →
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