Lucid Notes
Sticky notes that appear with the Mac app that needs them
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Sticky notes that follow your Mac apps. Attach text, images, or voice notes to an app; they appear when you return and hide when you switch. Keep coding reminders beside Xcode, feedback beside Figma, and talking points beside Zoom. Free contextual notes cover 3 apps, with 2 notes per app. Also includes transparent floating notes and 3 free teleprompter sessions per month. Optional Pro upgrades remove these limits.
PH · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: digital sticky note apps · 38 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Notes
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More like this: all 38 launches in digital sticky note apps →
Could you build this?
Partial While basic note UI is straightforward, anchoring floating contextual windows reliably to external third-party Mac applications requires native macOS accessibility, window server, and process monitoring APIs.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native Swift/macOS app utilizing NSWorkspace notifications to track active frontmost applications, the Accessibility API (AXUIElement) to track window bounds and positions, and CoreGraphics/AppKit for transparent floating overlay windows with local or CloudKit persistence.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 856 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #748 of 857 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sideleaf · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Deskbit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Driftpad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- FloatNote+ · ph · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Sticky Dock · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PinNote – Notes Always Visible · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Flippy Notes · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- put·here · ph · 2026-10-10 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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