ShakeNotes for Mac
Shake your mouse, get a note. Right next to the cursor
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Shake the mouse cursor anywhere on your Mac and a small notes popup appears right beside it. Type, press Return, click away. Zero permissions, about 0% CPU, notes stay on your Mac as a plain file. Native Swift, 2.7 MB, menu bar only.
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: note-taking and writing apps · 264 launches, 27 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Notes
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More like this: all 264 launches in note-taking and writing apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight native macOS menu bar utility that monitors cursor shake events and toggles a floating window for local text notes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1241 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1071 of 1242 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- PopNote · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Flippy Notes · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Shortcuts in Menu Bar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Keypause · ph · 2026-11-08 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Driftpad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MacAway · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Just Copy · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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