Nodes

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

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

Find anything, instantly. Full-text search matches every word you have written from your very first note. 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. A library it has just met fills in while you work. Both happen on your Mac; nothing is sent away to be looked up.

From the App Store

  • Beautiful and simple

    “Really gorgeous. A simple markdown editor that delivers an amazing writing experience. Displaced IA Writer and Ulysses for me.”

    United States · Jul 27, 2026

  • Thanks for this absolute gem of a MarkDown app!

    “A fully fledged Markdown Editor made for Mac OS by a developer who actually cares about native UX / UI… For real: this app is basically the perfect antidote to the deluge of slopware flooding the net.”

    Netherlands · Sep 16, 2026

  • Beautifully Opinionated

    “As an Obsidian user, I see the design decisions by the devs. Not all I agree with, but they’re consistent among themselves. But they produced a beautiful writing app.”

    United States · Jun 5, 2026

  • A wonderful, beautiful, native feeling markdown note app!

    “This is one of the most beautiful app I have ever seen! I was here really early, it is different from any note-taking app like obsidian.”

    Australia · Aug 3, 2026

  • Clean interface

    “Found this from a post on Reddit and bought it instantly. Clean interface and responsive developers…”

    United States · Oct 9, 2026

  • Simple & Beautiful

    “Distraction free writing and organising of knowledge”

    Germany · Apr 28, 2026

A note's details panel with suggested tags and a description, beside the words: on-device files, on-device LLMs, no internet, no sign-up, no data collected.

Your thoughts stay with you. Everything runs on-device: no internet, no sign-up, no data collected. A paid plan adds Import & Export for whole folders and the portable .nodes archive, and a daily snapshot to restore from when a morning goes wrong.

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Free to try on the Mac App Store. Unlock it once, or never.