Always one keystroke away
A global hotkey summons Scratch from any app. New note if you’ve been away — right back into your last one if you weren’t.
A scratchpad for the notes that don’t need a folder.
Beautiful markdown notes for Mac. Type **bold**, # headings,
lists — they style as you write. Always one keystroke away from any app.
Stays on your Mac.
7-day free trial · One-time purchase · No subscription
Type **bold**, # headings, lists, code, quotes —
Scratch styles them as you write. No second pane, no mode switcher. Just one
warm page that becomes the thing you’re writing.
Markdown done right, a hotkey that summons it from anywhere, and a paper-warm window that always reads as a page — not a tool.
A global hotkey summons Scratch from any app. New note if you’ve been away — right back into your last one if you weren’t.
Type **bold**, # headings, lists, quotes, code — they style as you write. No preview pane, no toggle. The page is the preview.
Notes live as plain .md files in Application Support. Drag one to Finder, open it in any editor. No account, no cloud, no lock-in. iCloud sync coming in v1.1.
Pin a note to keep it at the top of the sidebar. Great for the daily log, the open-loop list, or whatever you keep coming back to.
Hit ⌘T to pin the window above everything else. Keep a checklist next to your code, or notes next to a meeting. No mode-switching.
Save a note as PDF or .md, copy it as Markdown or Rich Text, or archive the whole library as a .zip. Drop a folder of .md files to import — they’re yours from the moment they land.
There is no second step. (Well, almost.)
Press your global hotkey from anywhere. Scratch pops up in front of whatever you were doing.
If you’ve been away 5 minutes or more, Scratch opens fresh. Otherwise it picks up exactly where you left off.
Hit the hotkey again and Scratch tucks itself away. Your notes are saved. Your flow isn’t broken.
The whole app is operable without the mouse — new notes, pins, find, copy, export, all the way through to import.
Buy once. Yours forever on this Mac. No subscription, no telemetry on your notes, no upsell screen between you and an empty page.
Get a feel for it.
macOS 14 Sonoma+
Yours forever.
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