simply notes
simply yours

A local-first notes app. Your words, your machine.

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Free and open source. Mac, Windows, and Linux. MIT licensed.

The Lychee app showing a 'Tokyo Trip' note: a cherry-blossom checklist, a photograph, and a sidebar of notes.

A note, in Lychee.

Preview

Lychee, in motion.

Your Notes, Your Focus

Lychee is designed to help you focus.
No distractions.

The sidebar collapsing to leave a clean, full-bleed writing surface.

Expressive Formatting

Bold, italic, code, links — for notes that read clearer.

Bold, italic, and other formatting being applied with keyboard shortcuts while typing.

Slash on Command

Build notes without leaving the keyboard.

The slash menu listing block types to insert.

Markdown Support

Write Markdown if you'd like. Lychee speaks it.

Markdown shortcuts converting to formatted blocks as the user types.

Ergonomic Search

A search experience that guides you without standing in the way.

The search overlay returning results as the user types a query.

Effortless Navigation

Navigating long notes shouldn't feel like an endless scroll.

Clicking a heading inside a long note to jump to that section.

Natural Grouping

No tags, no forced hierarchy. Your notes, your structure.

A note being dragged in the sidebar to reorder and nest under another note.

Local-first

Your notes,
your machine.

  1. Easy to keep. Your notes are saved on your computer in a simple, portable file.

  2. Private by default. No tracking, no analytics, no hidden data collection.

  3. Works offline. Lychee keeps working without the internet, because your notes should not depend on a server.

Creator's Note

Apps today feel like they want something from you.

  • Your attention.
  • Your data.
  • Your time.

Lychee is inspired by how software used to feel — useful, quiet, and yours.

  • No tracking.
  • No hidden agenda.
  • No reason to take more than it needs.

Just a beautiful place to write, made to stay free and yours.

Let's Love Lychee

Taste Lychee.

Made to stay free and yours.
On Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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