Menu Bar Notes: Quick Capture
Quick and Easy Menu Bar Notes
Free
Easily reach into your menubar to quickly jot down a thought or reference, edit it on your synced iPhone and iPad app with your private iCloud keeping every device in step. No accounts or signups are needed and no data is collected. I always wanted a simple tool like this and I hope someone else finds it useful.
On Mac, it sits in your menu bar. Click the icon or press ⌥⌘N from any app to open your notes, and click the icon again or press Esc to put them away. On iPhone and iPad, it's a clean, touch-first editor that stays out of your way.
Markdown Style Blocks
Every note is built from blocks: text, headings, collapsible toggles, to-dos with checkboxes, and code. Type shortcuts like "# ", "> ", or "[] " at the start of a line and the block transforms as you write. Toggles nest without limit, so a quick list can grow into a real outline.
Browser Style Tabs
Notes are tabs. Switch with ⌘1–⌘9, open a new note with ⌘T, close one with ⌘W.
Privately Sync over iCloud- No Account Needed
iCloud sync keeps iPhone, iPad, and Mac in step automatically. No account to create, no subscription — your notes live in your personal, private iCloud.
Forgiving By Design
Deleted notes and blocks go to the Trash, where they can be restored for 30 days.
FEATURES
• Block editor: text, Heading 1 and 2, toggles, to-dos, and code
• Markdown-style shortcuts for instant block transforms
• Collapsible toggle blocks with unlimited nesting
• Duplicate any block along with its children
• Menu bar quick capture on Mac, with a global ⌥⌘N (Option-Command-N) hotkey
• Tabbed notes with full keyboard navigation on Mac
• iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• 30-day Trash with restore
• No accounts, no tracking, no data collection
Menu Notes stores your notes on your device and syncs them through your own private iCloud database. We can't read them, and we wouldn't want to.
Ratings & Reviews
• iPad now has its own layout: your notes in a sidebar with the editor beside it, comfortable line lengths on a wide screen, and any orientation. Resize the window and your note stays open.
• Move to…: send a block, and everything nested inside it, to another note — or split it off into a new note — from the block menu.
• With a keyboard and trackpad: ⌘N for a new note, ⌘Return for a new block, and pointer highlights on iPad.
The developer, Olamide Ojumu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Olamide Ojumu
- Size
- 1.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ace Console