Write locally
Create and edit notes offline. Your note library is encrypted on this Mac, while exports you choose to create may be readable.
A private notes app for Mac
Keep what stays with you.
A quiet place for writing, research, attachments, and the ideas you want close at hand. LeafMemo works locally from the first note, with no account required.
Notarized for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later.
Apple siliconmacOS 14 or later
Offline firstNo sign-in needed to write
Encrypted locallyKey stored in macOS Keychain
AlphaKeep another copy of important notes
Made for keeping
Writing that feels calm. Structure when you need it.
LeafMemo combines rich notes, notebooks, tags, tables, checklists, attachments, search, history, and careful import tools in a native Mac workspace. It stays useful without a server, subscription, or connection.
Bring your archive
Import Markdown, Obsidian vaults, Evernote ENEX, text, HTML, DOCX, and PDFs with retained originals and visible conversion limits.
Protect a passage
Lock selected text with a separate passphrase, then reveal it directly inside the note with a quiet scrambled-text transition. Lock it again with the reverse effect. Attachments remain separate from that passage lock and are identified clearly.
The Mac alpha
Useful now, honest about what comes next.
The downloadable alpha centers the local writing experience. Optional connected features do not stand between you and your notes.
Native editing
A fuller formatting bar, notebook collections, adjustable columns, four note-list views, and eight palettes with Light, Medium, and Dark appearances.
Files stay useful
Record audio into a note and use Transcribe to Text to create a transcript on your Mac. Attach images, PDFs, video, and other documents, and export notebooks as PDF, HTML, Markdown, or text.
Recovery is visible
Saved history, Trash, portable library export, and protected-history recovery provide explicit paths back when you need them.
Your tools, with permission
Local agents and plugins use notebook and operation scopes you control. Access is off until you enable it.
In this alpha: production sharing and hosted synchronization are still being completed, and iPhone and iPad distribution is not yet available. Local encryption protects the library stored by LeafMemo on this Mac; it is not a claim that every exported file or external viewer remains encrypted.
Start with the notes on your Mac.
LeafMemo 0.1 alpha (398) for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. The app works offline; optional sync setup is not required.
Build 398 adds a counted, confirmed Empty Trash action, durable deletion records that prevent stale revisions from recreating emptied notes, and safer Trash and Restore actions when another edit is being saved. If you have build 387, install the current build manually once; builds 388 through 397 can update from inside LeafMemo.
Tester guide — installation, updating, what to try, and feedback
Release checksum: SHA-256 checksum