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Perch

Native macOS sticky notes — menubar quick capture,floating notes, Markdown, iCloud sync.

  • Completely free
  • macOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: Markdown support and full-text search.

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
  • “Perch — native macOS 15+ sticky notes: menubar-resident, global hotkey quick capture, multi-window floating notes, Markdown, optional iCloud sync.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Drag notes into groups, full-text search, right-click rename/move, and multi-select bulk actions.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

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 xVanTuring/Perch (MIT)

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