TearMark
Menu bar notes, plain Markdown
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Outlining, inside a note. Fold away what you are not thinking about, see a long note as just its outline, and extract a branch into a note of its own.
Capture what you are thinking, at the speed of thought.
TearMark is a notepad that lives in your macOS menu bar. Press Command+Shift+Space and it comes to you, ready to type. It slips away when you are done. No folders to pick, no titles to fill in, no date pickers.
■ Tear it off, stick it up
Drag the window and let go — that note stays on screen as a sticky. Today's to-dos, a URL to read later, notes scribbled during a call. Stick it in the corner of your screen; toss it when it's done.
■ No filing. Still findable.
There is no category feature — on purpose. Filing is the chore that kills the writing habit. Instead, TearMark makes notes findable without it.
- Six paper colors. Red for urgent, blue for journal — the meaning is yours to assign
- Keywords you search for are saved automatically, one click away next time
- Full-text search finds the note you forgot you wrote
■ Nothing drops mid-composition
Editors built on the web stack tend to lose characters while an input method is still composing. TearMark treats that as its highest quality bar — every change to the editor is verified against Japanese IME, the hardest case there is, before it ships.
■ Your notes are plain .md files
Nothing is locked inside a database. Every entry is a plain Markdown file on your Mac. If TearMark ever goes away, the folder still opens in anything.
■ An exit to Obsidian, when a note grows up
When a quick note becomes real knowledge, right-click and send it to your vault. TearMark is the entrance for every day; Obsidian is where knowledge lives.
■ Privacy
Your notes are never transmitted anywhere. There is no sync server and no cloud storage. No account is required, and usage is never measured.
■ Requirements
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
■ Free trial
Try everything for 7 calendar days from your first launch. No payment information and no account required.
■ Purchases
After the trial, creating and editing notes requires either an annual plan or a one-time purchase.
- Annual plan: 1,500 JPY per year
- Lifetime: 5,000 JPY, a limited launch offer
The annual plan is charged when you purchase it and renews automatically each year unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in the App Store app on your Mac.
Even after a subscription lapses, everything you wrote stays readable forever. Viewing, searching, exporting, and sending to Obsidian keep working.
Privacy Policy: https://tearmark.app/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Outlining, inside a note.
• Nest and reorder a list. Tab and ⇧Tab change the level; ⌥↑ and ⌥↓ move an item with everything under it.
• Fold away what you are not thinking about with ⌘. — a list item, or a heading and the section under it. You can also click the ring on a bullet, or the … at the end of the line.
• Press ⇧⌘. to see a whole note as an outline: just the headings and the outermost items of any list.
• ⌘A now widens one step at a time — the item, its children, the section, the whole note. Select a branch, then Extract to move it into a note of its own. ⇧⌘A takes everything in one press.
• Folding is only how a note looks. Your .md file is the same folded or not, and folds are forgotten when you quit.
• Right-click the menu bar icon and choose Shortcuts to see every key. Hovering a toolbar button shows its shortcut too.
• A new sample note walks through all of this.
Fixes
• Pasting from a browser or a chat app no longer brings in blank lines.
• Extracting part of a list no longer leaves stray line breaks in your .md.
• A window larger than the screen is now trimmed to fit, so its footer stays reachable.
• A long note now shows a scroll bar when it does not fit the window.
The developer, EXDESIGN, Inc., 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- EXDESIGN, Inc.
- Size
- 6.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- TearMark Lifetime $29.99
- TearMark Annual $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 EXDESIGN, Inc.
