Antinote Press Kit
Company Overview
Antinote is a productivity scratchpad exclusively for macOS. It's meant for temporary
notes, calculations, and quick text manipulation; and designed to be beautiful, fast,
keyboard-driven, and privacy-first.
Philosophy
Antinote is built with a clear purpose: to be the perfect companion for temporary notes, quick calculations, and light text manipulation. It’s not trying to do everything — it’s trying to do a few things extremely well.
- Be hyper-focused on fast, disposable interactions — jot something down,
do the math, move on.
- Be frictionless in your workflow — Antinote shows up instantly when and
where you need it, and works with your existing note-taking system.
- Take the place of overpowered tools like Excel or GDocs for small, temporary tasks.
- Be beautiful — because even throwaway thoughts deserve love.
- Be highly performant — lightweight, fast, and resource sipping.
- Prioritize user rights — when it comes to privacy, accessibility, and internationalization.
- Delight and surprise — by sneaking in features, quirks, and easter eggs
you never expected to find.
- No subscriptions.
Antinote is not your primary full-featured notes app.
- It’s not for notes you want to keep, organize, or format deeply.
- It’s not here to replace Apple Notes, Bear, Obsidian with their extensive
formatting/sync/tagging/mobile feature set.
- It’s not for crafting the long form content, or mass editing large documents.
Features
- Swipe Navigation – Instantly switch notes by swiping. Jump to front, auto-delete.
Organizing is overrated.
- Plain Text – Beautifully minimal. Formatting and indents are stripped on
paste to keep things clean and simple.
- Link Shrink – Links are auto-shortened with smart endings. Expand or edit
them as needed. ⌘⏎ to open.
- Contextual Math – Write math with context. Useful, descriptive, and easy
to follow.
- Conversions – Instantly convert currencies, distances, and weights as you
type.
- Reactive Variables – Build small custom calculators on the fly using simple
variable logic. No spreadsheet required.
- Checklists – Make a list, check it off. Works with keywords for keyboard-first
interaction.
- Timer – Built-in stopwatch, countdown, and pomodoro support using natural
language.
- Screenshot to Text – Drag or paste in an image to instantly extract text
via OCR.
- AutoPaste – Antinote will watch your clipboard and paste anything you copy.
No Cmd-Tab/Cmd-V needed.
- Global Hotkey – Summon Antinote from anywhere with ⌥A (customizable).
- Dock, Menu Bar, or Dropdown - Adopt the mode that works best with your workflow.
- One-Click Export – Instantly send notes to Apple Notes, Obsidian, Bear,
print, or export as plain .txt, .md, or PDF.
- iCloud Sync with E2EE – Optional sync across Macs through your own iCloud,
end-to-end encrypted on-device. No account, no Antinote server. (New in 2.0)
- Extensions – Type :: in any note to run JavaScript commands — transform
text, format JSON, calculate a mortgage. 100+ official commands from a signed community library,
or write your own. (New in 2.0)
- Slotted Notes – Nine permanent, planet-themed slots for the notes you always
come back to, living alongside the ephemeral stack. Split screen shows both at once. (New
in 2.0)
- The Void – Deleted notes drift in a recoverable trash until it auto-empties,
so deleting stays fearless. (New in 2.0)
- Lists Anywhere – Markdown-style checkboxes, bullets, and self-renumbering
numbered lists in any note, plus formatting shortcuts (⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U) and line moves (⌥↑/⌥↓).
(New in 2.0)
- Privacy Switches – Every network call the app can make is listed in Settings
with its own off switch — and there is zero telemetry in the binary. (New in 2.0)
- And more... – Sum and average numbers, count lines and words, check reading
ease, and search instantly.
Product Information
Antinote 2.0 is available for macOS 14 and newer. It's a lightweight app that runs
natively (Swift/SwiftUI) on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It’s actively developed with
feedback from our community on Discord.
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Team & Contact
Antinote is built by a solo developer, Johnson Fung. He's available for interviews and press inquiries. Contact him at johnson@antinote.io, or @jfung88 on Discord.