Gravity – Quick Menu Bar Notes
Minimal Markdown scratchpad
Only for Mac
$9.99
Mac
Markdown now styles itself as you type, with shortcuts for bold, italics, links and checklists. Tick checklist items straight from the list.
Gravity sits in your menu bar and keeps your notes in one stream, newest first. Press Option-Space in any app, type what's on your mind, and press Return twice. The panel saves the note and closes, and you're back where you were.
Older notes sink as you add new ones. When one still matters, press R and it goes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. There are no folders to file into.
Capturing
Option-Space opens the capture panel from anywhere. Option-Shift-Space adds to your last note instead, which helps when you're making notes on an article or a video. You can change both shortcuts in Settings. Command-Return also saves, and Escape closes the panel with your draft kept.
The notes window
Click the menu bar icon to open your notes. Select a note to read it beside the list, and click it to start editing. Move with the arrow keys, then press R to rescue, A to archive or Delete to delete. For a few seconds afterwards you can undo an archive, a delete or a restore.
Markdown and checklists
Headings, bold, italics, lists, links, quotes and code show formatted in the list and the reader. In the editor the Markdown is styled as you type. Command-B, Command-I and Command-K add bold, italics and links, and Shift-Command-L starts a checklist. Tick checklist items straight from the list. Return carries a list on to the next line. Notes are saved as plain Markdown text.
Tags and search
Start a note with todo:, idea: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Command-F searches every note on your Mac, offline, and can include archived notes if you switch that on.
Sync and privacy
Your notes are stored on your Mac. Turn on iCloud sync in Settings to share them with Gravity on iPhone, which is sold separately. Gravity has no accounts and no analytics, and it doesn't collect any data. Import and export use JSON.
Looks
Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from three text sizes. Gravity stays out of the Dock unless you put it there, and it throws a little confetti every hundred notes.
Price
You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads.
Requires macOS 15 or later.
Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy
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Markdown and checklists arrive on the Mac.
• The note editor styles Markdown as you type, with the markers dimmed. You can switch it off in Settings, under Appearance.
• Command-B, Command-I and Command-K add bold, italics and links, and Shift-Command-L starts a checklist. They work in the editor and the capture panel.
• Start a line with - [ ] to make a checklist, then tick items in the list or the reader
• Return continues bulleted, numbered and checklist items, and Return on an empty item ends the list
• Strikethrough and third-level headings now display properly
• The undo bar slides in and out smoothly, and the Copied banner fades instead of jumping
• If two devices change the same note, iCloud sync now keeps a copy so neither edit is lost
The developer, Tristan Manchester, 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
- Tristan Manchester
- Size
- 4.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Tristan Manchester
