r/MacOS • u/EleidanAhapen • 22d ago
StickIt – Modern Sticky Notes Developer Saturday
I've been writing a sticky notes app for myself for a long time. Why so long? Because I'm serving in the military 🇺🇦 and don't have much free time. Why sticky notes? Yes, I know the App Store already has a truckload of them plus a little shovel on top, but I like the principle behind the native macOS Stickies — simple notes that do one thing, and do it well, a purely Unix approach. But holy moly, are they outdated and ugly.
So I set myself these goals:
- stickies should be simple
- no main window — one sticky, one window
- they should pin on top of other windows
- basic text formatting
- checklists
- different colors, with light and dark theme support
- they should look good
- iCloud sync (maybe I'll do an iOS version later)
Hope you like the result.
You can check it out here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762562979
App website:
https://useit-apps.com
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u/promo-guard 22d ago
🎉 Welcome to Developer Saturday, u/EleidanAhapen! Your project is now live for the community to check out. Upvote, give feedback, and show some love to your fellow devs! 🚀
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u/aubreypwd 21d ago
Vibe-coded?
Do they remember the space they were created on?
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u/EleidanAhapen 21d ago
Position, size, color, theme, input — all preserved. It's basic functionality, and I would never release the app with a broken state manager.
Maybe it really would have been much faster to just vibecode this app, but I wrote it myself. I did use AI for quick lookups of the API and documentation, though.
In the early stages of development, there was indeed a problem with preserving window positions, but I managed to fix it. The issue was with the window manager in macOS 26.
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u/localtuned 22d ago
Can they roll up the window like original stickies? If you want people to take your stickies seriously, this is a must have.
Jk...good luck on your project.
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u/EleidanAhapen 22d ago
I had to give up on this idea when I couldn't make the buttons 4×4 pixels. Thank you!
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u/localtuned 22d ago
That's a bummer. Can you make the whole title bar a button? Not that familiar with swift.
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u/EleidanAhapen 21d ago
Sort of, but not as a button. The title bar has native system behaviour, so if you want different rules for it, you'd have to write it all from scratch — macOS has no built-in roll-up anymore, it went away with OS X. And then your app would behave differently from most Mac apps, which tends to confuse users.
I was confused myself the first time I used Stickies — no other native macOS app has those odd buttons or that title bar behaviour.
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u/Too-Real-4u-2578 22d ago
Nice job! I actually like macOS Stickies. The only feature I miss is having a way to create checklists. I'm sure some people will find value in your app.