Release notes
- History search — press Cmd-F to search your notes by title and body, with ranked results and snippets
- Design improvements — notch geometry, open/close springs, and smoother content transitions
- Editor & interaction polish — glass surface around the text area, consistent list indents, crisper footer buttons, and a morph flicker fix
- Affirmations — set a personal mantra from the menu bar
- Improved AI engine
- Design improvements and bug fixes
- Design improvements (easter eggs)
- Improved AI engine
- Bug fixes
- Improved task support
- Visual polish and bug fixes
- Apple Intelligence — on-device AI is here, enhance your notes without losing privacy
- Tidy Up — auto-reorganise raw notes into clean, formatted content
- Summarize — extract a short and shareable summary of notes
- Markdown paste — paste markdown and get rich text directly
- Design improvements for more delight
- AI features require macOS 26
- Now supports macOS 14 (Sonoma) and Intel Macs
- Delete notes with timed undo
- Reliability improvements and bug fixes
- Improved accessibility
- Smooth morph transition between notch and expanded panel
- Notchpad wordmark branding in notch footer and expanded header
- Screen anchoring fix — panels always appear on the correct display
- Settings auto-dismiss on focus loss
- Dictation cancel and newline display fixes
- What's New popup — version-tracked feature showcase with live hero animation
- Menu bar hint popover for first-time users
- Launch at login enabled by default
- Panel dismiss reliability fix
- Improved editor controls and widgets
- Configurable editor font sizes for accessibility
- Better rich text sanitisation
- Improved menu bar and themes
- Support for macOS 15.x
- Settings window: capped width, opens in foreground
- Notch content padding — text no longer hugs the container edges
- More pronounced hover expansion
- Magnetic Pull — notch glows and orbits a chrome ring as your cursor approaches
- Choreographed spring animation for panel open/close
- Copy note as Markdown
- Dynamic menu bar icon, redesigned sound palette
- Format bar now floats above text
- Show Welcome Wizard button in Settings › About
- Launch at Login option in onboarding wizard
- Fixed Sparkle auto-updater for sandboxed installs
- Synthesized UI sounds for panel and format actions
- fn/Globe key — open notch when closed, toggle dictation when open
- First-launch onboarding wizard with permissions setup
- Sparkle auto-update infrastructure and sandbox fixes
- Notch-anchored notepad with rich text editing
- Voice dictation via fn/Globe key
- Tele expanded panel with Dark/Liquid Glass
- Everything local, no internet needed
- Sparkle auto-updates, app icon, menu bar glyph