Noticky is a native Mac sticky notes app with Always on Top, app-aware notes and private screen sharing. One-time purchase at $9.99.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Noticky is a native macOS menu bar app for sticky notes. Its defining behavior is that notes float above other windows, including fullscreen apps, which the site says Apple Stickies and Tot do not do. It requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
The app is built for people who want notes close to the work they belong to. Instead of a single pile of desktop notes, Noticky lets you link notes to apps, bring specific notes back with a shortcut, and dock notes to a screen edge. It lives in the menu bar and does not add a Dock icon.
Noticky runs as a menu bar app and creates notes that sit at a macOS window level above fullscreen apps. You capture a note by pressing Command-Shift-N from anywhere, typing or dropping in an image, and pressing Return. A brief Saved confirmation appears, then Quick Add closes.
From there, notes stay available from the menu bar. You can show or hide all notes with Command-Shift-H, collapse them, fade inactive notes, and arrange them in Free, Stack or Grid layouts. Notes are stored locally on your Mac, and enabling iCloud Sync copies them across your Macs through your personal iCloud account.
App-aware notes appear when a linked app becomes active and step aside when you leave it. Quick Access assigns important notes to one of nine keyboard spots, so one shortcut returns the same note even if it was closed, hidden or docked. Edge Dock shrinks a note to a compact tab on the left or right edge.
Privacy and visual tools are a second group. Private notes can be hidden from screen sharing and recordings, and individual notes can be locked with Touch ID. Sticky Screenshot and floating image overlays pin references above your work with adjustable opacity, click-through and zoom.
Writing features include live Markdown rendering, templates, checklists that sync with Apple Reminders, Apple Calendar mentions and export to PDF, Markdown or plain text.
Noticky is a native macOS menu bar app for sticky notes. Its notes stay above other windows, including fullscreen apps, and can be linked to specific apps, docked to a screen edge or recalled with keyboard shortcuts.
Noticky is a one-time purchase at $9.99, with taxes included. The site states there are no subscriptions and that future updates are included.
Yes. Noticky stays visible above fullscreen apps using a specific macOS window level. The site says Apple Stickies and Tot disappear in fullscreen, while SideNotes and Quick Sticky Notes also support it using different approaches.
Yes. Private notes can be hidden from screenshots, recordings and screen sharing while remaining visible to you. The feature is powered by Hide From Screen Capture.
Noticky needs macOS 15 Sequoia or later and runs on Apple Silicon or Intel Macs. An iCloud account is optional and only needed for sync.
Noticky syncs across your Macs through iCloud, described as end-to-end encrypted. Notes are stored locally on your Mac, and iCloud sync is optional.
Yes. It supports headers (H1 to H6), bold, italic, strikethrough, ordered and unordered lists, code blocks and inline code. Formatting renders live as you type, with no preview mode.
Direct sales are final because the product is delivered immediately, though support will try to help with technical issues that prevent use. Mac App Store purchases are subject to Apple's refund policy.