Cyanote costs a single payment of $10 (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. When the Windows version ships, the same $10 covers it.
| Cyanote | |
|---|---|
| Price | $10, one time |
| Renewals | None |
| Updates | Free, for life |
| Account | Not required |
| Feature tiers | None — one version, everything in it |
| Requires | macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel) |
| Windows | Not yet on sale; covered by the same purchase |
| Refund | 14 days, no reason needed |
What the $10 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
Secure checkout via Lemon Squeezy · macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon & Intel), notarized by Apple
The Mac version is on sale now. When Windows ships, the same $10 covers it — nothing more to pay.
Open this page on your Mac to buy — a licence key is no use without a Mac to run it on.
Why $10, 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, you own that, and updates are free.
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 $10 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 and updates
If it is not for you, the refund is fourteen days and needs no reason — no form, no questions about why.
Updates are free forever and there is no upgrade pricing: version 2 will not be a new purchase. What has shipped so far is in the changelog.
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