Nodes 2.0

Full launch

August 2026

Munich, Germany

Every piece of feedback, each mail you send us, truly meant the world for us and shaped the path we took to get here. And here we are now, all around the globe using Nodes, every inked country on this globe held at least one early supporter before launch day. And for those people who were here before anyone asked them to be - we will never forget, Nodes will be yours, free. Forever.

Nico presenting Nodes at the EQT hackathon in March 2025, the graph projected on the wall behind him and the audience in silhouette.

Welcome to Nodes - a minimal, beautiful, and fast writing app for macOS. Built for those who care about both form and function, Nodes is a place to write, think, and create without distraction. Every design decision is intentional. Every element earns its place. Designed for macOS, it blends powerful technology with a quiet, focused experience.

Markdown rendered in the editor: headers, lists and a code block.

Write with clarity. Full markdown support lets you focus on your words while maintaining beautiful structure. Headers, lists, code blocks - all rendered elegantly without getting in your way.

A hand pointing with an orange pencil at the first Nodes graph on a monitor: a ring of dots, and a list beside it reading Node 1 to Node 57.
The graph, two days old.

See how your notes connect. Every note is a node and every link is an edge, so the library draws its own shape as you write: a ring of dots you can open, follow, and pull apart. Type double brackets around a title and the link exists the moment you finish it, in both directions - the note you linked to knows about the note you linked from. It is the fastest way back to something you cannot name, because what you remember is rarely the title. It is usually what the note sat next to.

Search across the library, with results narrowing as you type.

Find anything, instantly. Full-text search works from your very first note: start typing and every word you have written is already being matched. Searching by meaning is the other half - describe an idea in your own words and the note about it comes up even when you never wrote those words down, because the model on your Mac has read the library and knows what the notes are about. It can only find what it has already been through, so a library it has just met fills in while you work. Both kinds of search happen on your machine; nothing is sent away to be looked up.

The library on disk: plain markdown files, kept on your own Mac.

Your thoughts stay with you. Everything runs on-device, private and secure. No cloud dependencies, no data harvesting. Just you and your words, exactly as it should be. Your notes are plain markdown files on your own disk from the first note you write, which is why the library outlives the app. The moving parts around them come with a paid plan: Import & Export for whole folders and the portable .nodes archive, and a daily snapshot to restore from when a morning goes wrong. Without one, Nodes keeps no recovery points at all - the files are still yours, and copying them out by hand is always yours to do. So you can always walk away with everything.