Brink
live life on the edge
Quick notes in your Mac’s menu bar. Double-tap ⌘ from any app and a notes panel slides in from the edge of the screen your pointer is on. Jot it down, press Escape, and it slides away again.
Free · macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · on the App Store as “Brink Bar”
What it does
A notepad that lives at the edge of your screen
Brink stays out of the way in the menu bar until you need it. Then it’s one double-tap away, whatever app you’re in. The user guide covers all of it.
Always one double-tap away
Double-tap ⌘ from any app, use a keyboard shortcut such as ⇧⌘N, or rest the pointer at the screen’s edge. The panel slides in on the display under your pointer; press Escape or click away and it slides out.
Markdown, written and rendered
Notes are Markdown. See the text, the formatted note, or both side by side, and switch with ⌘E.
Task lists
Checklists of their own, with sub-tasks. Add a task with Return, check it off with ⌘↩, drag to reorder.
Tabs, panes and workspaces
Keep several notes open in tabs, split the panel into up to four panes, and switch between whole layouts in up to nine workspaces.
Find anything
Search every note, or jump to one by name with Open Note. Your notes show up in Spotlight, too.
Recently Deleted
Deleted a note by mistake? It waits in Recently Deleted for 30 days, ready to restore.
At home on your Mac
The Neutral style uses macOS’s own colors and materials; Edgy uses Brink’s palette. Light, Dark, or follow the system.
Private by design
Your notes stay on your Mac. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no ads, and nothing fetched over plain http. Read the privacy policy.
More kinds of tabs
With Brink Pro: folders, calendars, reminders, a terminal, a shelf for files, a clipboard you save to on purpose, log files, and plugins.
Free and Pro
Free for notes. Pro for more kinds of tabs.
Brink is free to download, and its notes stay free. Brink Pro is a one-time purchase that adds more kinds of tabs. Try it free for 14 days first.
Brink
Free
- Markdown notes, rendered or as text
- Task lists
- Tabs, and up to four panes
- Workspaces, to switch between layouts
- Search, Open Note and Spotlight
- Recently Deleted, for 30 days
- Export and import, as Markdown files
- The New Tab page
No subscription, no account, and nothing to buy for notes.
Brink Pro
$9.99 one-time, in-app purchase (US price)
- Folder tabs: browse a folder in a tab
- Calendar tabs: your agenda or week, with join links and meeting notes
- Reminders tabs: check off and edit your Reminders lists
- Terminal tabs: a shell in a tab (with the free Brink Terminal Helper)
- Shelf tabs: park files for a moment, then drag them out
- Clipboard tabs: what you save on purpose with ⌘C ⌘C; never a record of your clipboard
- Tail tabs: follow a log file as lines are added
- Plugins: more kinds of tabs, such as a clock, a timer, bookmarks and RSS feeds
Free 14-day trial. Both the trial and the purchase go through the App Store; more Pro tab types may come.
Terminal tabs need a small helper
Apple doesn’t let App Store apps run shells outside their sandbox, so the shells for Brink Pro’s terminal tabs run in Brink Terminal Helper, a separate free app, signed and notarized. Everything else in Brink works without it.
Get Brink
Brink is on the Mac App Store as “Brink Bar”. It needs macOS 26 or later, on a Mac with Apple Silicon or Intel.