Your notes,
at the speed of thought.
Press one key. Type. It's saved. Search every note and every attachment, instantly. That's the whole product.
macOS desktop · Web app · Markdown · Export anytime
One key to capture. One search to find it. That's it.
Everything else is noise.
Three things. Done exceptionally.
Every decision inside Slate is in service of one of these. If it isn't, we don't ship it.
Capture in a keystroke.
Press ⌘⇧S from anywhere. A minimal composer appears. Type. ⌘↵. Saved. Under 500ms from keypress to visible.
Search that actually finds things.
Full-text search across every note, every tag, every attachment. Slate OCRs your PDFs and screenshots, so the stuff you captured as an image is searchable too.
Markdown, yours forever.
Your notes are plain markdown. Export one or all, anytime. No proprietary format. No lock-in. If you ever leave Slate, you take everything with you.
Less app, more notes.
What most notes apps have taught you to tolerate — and what Slate quietly skips.
Notes apps that got in the way
- 4-click navigation to create a new note
- Folders inside folders inside folders
- Search that returns 200 irrelevant results
- A screenshot you know you saved but can't find
- Notes stuck in a proprietary format
- Price hikes that tripled overnight
Notes apps that stay out of your way
- One keystroke. No folders. No clicks.
- A flat list, sorted by recency
- Search ranked by what matters, OCR included
- A screenshot you find by searching its text
- Plain markdown, one-click export
- A flat $19.99/mo for 8 apps including Slate
Slate does less on purpose.
We cut the features that make notes apps feel heavy. You get a tool that stays fast as your library grows past 10,000 notes.
- Flat list of notes
- Tags
- Markdown + images + PDFs
- Full-text + OCR search
- Desktop (macOS) + web
- Local + cloud sync
- Dark + light mode
- Nested pages and sub-pages
- Folders / notebooks
- Databases and typed tables
- Backlinks / graph view
- Browser extension (v1.1)
- Real-time collaboration
- Custom themes / CSS
Coming from Evernote?
Evernote Advanced is $14–18/mo. Slate is part of Stack at $19.99/mo for 8 apps. Bring your notes — we import .enex.
- Evernote .enex import — upload an export, keep your notes, tags, attachments, and created dates.
- Web clipper on the v1.1 roadmap — Chrome extension ships next.
- No surprise limits — no 50-note free tier, no device caps, no price hikes.
Two places. Same notes.
A native macOS app for the way your day starts, a web app for the way it ends. Your notes sync between the two.
Slate for Mac
LiveSigned DMG, global hotkey, menu-bar capture, offline-first. macOS 13+, signed & notarized.
v0.1.2 · release notes →Slate on the web
LiveSign in with Google, get a 14-day free trial, and start capturing notes instantly. Same notes, same shortcuts, no install.
Coming next: iPad, iPhone, Windows, Chrome clipper.
Slate is part of Stack.
$19.99/mo for the whole suite of 8 apps. Replaces Evernote (~$15/mo) plus 7 more.
Honest answers.
No marketing weasel. If we don't do it yet, we say so.
.enex file from Evernote and drop it into Slate. Notes, tags, attachments, and created dates come across. We don't alter your markdown on import.