ShakeNotes for Mac
Shake your mouse, get a note. Right next to the cursor
Details
- External ID
- 1256831
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ShakeNotes for Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Notes
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- quick scratchpad utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 496 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #304 of 497 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- Driftpad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- NearKit · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Lucid Notes · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ClipKeep · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Fluere · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- mactap · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Deskbit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Alfredo · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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