Cyanote costs a single payment of $7.99 (USD). There is no subscription, no free trial that expires, no paid tier, and no account to create. It runs on macOS 12 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel, and on Windows 10 or later. The Windows version is sold on the Microsoft Store for the same $7.99, as a separate purchase from the Mac version.
Open this page on your Mac or Windows PC to buy — the app runs on a computer, not a phone.
| Cyanote | |
|---|---|
| Price | $7.99, one time |
| Renewals | None |
| Account | Not required |
| Feature tiers | None — one version, everything in it |
| Requires | macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel), or Windows 10 or later |
| Windows | $7.99 on the Microsoft Store, a separate purchase from the Mac version |
| Refund | Mac: 14 days, no reason needed. Windows: through the Microsoft Store, under Microsoft’s refund policy |
What the $7.99 includes
All of it. There is no version of Cyanote with fewer features:
- Notes and code notes with syntax highlighting
- To-dos and a kanban board
- Calendar
- Habit tracking
- Routines and a Pomodoro timer
- A system-wide clipboard manager with unlimited searchable history
- Themes and typography controls
- Instant search across everything
- Markdown import, and export of everything to a single JSON file
Why $7.99, and why only once
Your notes, tasks and habits live in a database on your own Mac. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and there is no server holding your content — so there is no monthly cost to recover from you. Charging rent for storage that sits on your own laptop never made sense to me, so Cyanote is sold the way software used to be: you buy it, and you own that.
The honest consequence is the one worth stating on a pricing page: because there is no server, there is no sync. Cyanote does not copy your notes to another machine or to a phone. You cannot have the $7.99 and the sync — the first is a direct result of not building the second.
If the arithmetic is what brought you here, I wrote up the five subscriptions this replaced for me, which came to about $260 a year.
What the price does not buy
- Sync between machines. None, by design.
- An iPhone or iPad app. There isn't one.
- Collaboration. No shared notes, boards or comments.
- A support department. Cyanote is one person. Email reaches the person who wrote the code, which cuts both ways.
Refunds
If it is not for you, the refund is fourteen days and needs no reason — no form, no questions about why. That is for the Mac version bought here; a Windows copy bought on the Microsoft Store is refunded through the Store, under Microsoft’s refund policy.
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