Snippets
Deutsch

macOS menu bar app

Sticky notes,
always one hotkey away.

Snippets keeps short bits of text — commands, TODOs, addresses, anything you'd jot on a sticky note — each in its own small floating window.

Download for macOS Build from source
  • macOS 14+
  • Free & open source
  • GPLv3
  • also known as „Schnipsel“

Everything a sticky note needs, nothing it doesn't

One hotkey, anywhere

⌃⌥S by default, remappable in Settings. Brings every open snippet forward, or shows the list if none are open.

Six classic colors

Yellow, blue, green, pink, purple, gray — color-code snippets at a glance, Stickies-style.

A window of its own

Every snippet floats independently, remembers its position and size, and can be pinned always-on-top.

Fast list panel

Live search, Tab/arrow-key navigation, and ⌘1–9 to jump straight to a snippet.

Copy, share, save

A toolbar on every window: copy to the clipboard, the macOS share sheet, or save as a .txt file.

Menu bar only, by default

Runs as a background accessory app. "Show in Dock" can be switched on anytime, no restart needed.

English & Deutsch

Fully localized in both languages, with more planned.

How it works

  1. Press the hotkey

    Or click the menu bar icon. The list panel appears instantly, Spotlight-style.

  2. Search or create

    Type to filter, or hit + for a blank snippet. Tab and arrow keys move the selection.

  3. It opens in its own window

    Edit, copy, share, or pin it in front. Close it and reopen from the list anytime.

Under the hood

Snippets is a native SwiftUI + AppKit app for macOS 14 and later. Its data model lives in SnippetKit, a platform-neutral Swift package with no AppKit/UIKit dependency, kept separate so a future iOS companion app can share it without a migration. The full source (with git history) is available under the GPLv3.