TearMark
Menu bar notes, plain Markdown
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
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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• Move a sticky note to a corner or the center of the screen (⌃⌘U / ⌃⌘I / ⌃⌘J / ⌃⌘K for the corners, ⌃⌘M for the center)
• Line up every sticky note on the screen. ⌃⌘A repeats the last arrangement, and ⌃⌘Z puts the notes back
• Sticky notes no longer reopen when TearMark starts. ⌥-click a note in the list to open it as a sticky again
• Each extra sticky note now uses much less memory
• The hotkey opens the quick window the moment you press it
• If the editor stops unexpectedly, TearMark recovers it without losing what you were writing
• When a trial or subscription ends, TearMark notices without being restarted
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
- 6.4 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.
