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Glyph

📝 Glyph is a private desktop workspace for notes, documents, and ideas, with Markdown editing and built-in AI tools.

  • Completely free
  • macOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Glyph is a note-taking program, available on macOS.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: Markdown support, offline use and keyboard shortcuts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “📝 Glyph is a private desktop workspace for notes, documents, and ideas, with Markdown editing and built-in AI tools.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Glyph: Local-First Markdown Notes App with AI for macOS” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Glyph: Local-First Markdown Notes App with AI for macOS” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Remap shortcuts, turn on Vim mode, and move through your notes without reaching for the mouse.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Glyph is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub SidhuK/Glyph (AGPL-3.0-only)

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