Color & glow
Start from a preset, or set the note color, three glow colors, and
link accent yourself. Apply it everywhere or to a single note.
Beyond Stickies
Where Stickies has 8 fixed colors, you get the full wheel, an
eyedropper, and palettes pulled from any image.
- Ready-made color presets
- Save styles to reuse later
- Override any single note without affecting the rest
Transparency
Slide from barely-there frosted glass to nearly solid. The glow behind
the note tracks the opacity, so the color never falls flat.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies has one Translucent toggle. This is a continuous slider over
real desktop blur.
- Transparency slider from light to dense
- Separate control for background glow
- Matches the native macOS window
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Fonts & text
Pick a font, then fine-tune the text size and line spacing.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies sets one font for every note. Here each note can have its own,
from a curated picker.
- Sans, serif, mono, and system fonts
- Text size and line spacing controls
- Set defaults, then tweak individual notes
Shape & corners
Go from sharp rectangles to soft rounded corners. Border color follows
your palette.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies notes are a fixed shape. Here you set the corner roundness.
- Corner radius from square to rounded
- Border color tied to your theme
- Renders in the native note window
Living color
A soft animated color field behind each note, or turn it off entirely.
Pick a style, then dial the speed and intensity.
- Still, flow, breathe, or shift
- Speed and intensity controls
- Optional entrance animation when a note appears
Stay on top
Choose where a note sits: float above other windows, sit normally, or
stick to the desktop.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies has a single Float on Top. This has float, normal, and
pin-to-desktop, per note.
- Float above, normal, or desktop level
- Toggle float with ⌘⇧T
- Per-note control
Collapse
Shrink a note down to its title bar and get it out of the way without
closing it.
Beyond Stickies
Like the Stickies roll-up, but smoothly animated, and it remembers your
size.
- Double-click the title bar
- ⌘M to toggle
- Content stays saved while collapsed
Follows you everywhere
Set a note to follow you across every desktop Space, instead of living
on just one.
- Visible across all Spaces
- Stays put over fullscreen apps
- Per-note setting
Real macOS glass
Each note is a real macOS window — your wallpaper blurs through, not a
flat panel in a browser.
- Native macOS window vibrancy
- Your real desktop shows through
- Frameless, floating, and draggable
Color from any image
Drop in a photo or your wallpaper and JuicySticky pulls a harmonized
palette from it — a fill plus glow colors — ready to save and reuse.
Beyond Stickies
Match a note to a photo, a brand, or your desktop in seconds.
- Extract a palette from any image
- Colors are auto-harmonized to sit well together
- Save extracted palettes to a reusable library
Saved styles
Get a note looking just right, then save it as a named style. Apply it to
any other note in a click — and when you tweak the style later, every note
wearing it updates too.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies has eight fixed looks. Here you build and reuse your own.
- Save any note's look as a reusable style
- Edit a style and every note using it re-flows
- One-step undo if you change your mind
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Write your way
Type plain markdown, or switch to a formatted editor. Either way, it
saves as clean markdown on disk.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies does basic styling. This is full rich text that still saves as
markdown.
- Markdown and formatted modes, ⌘⇧M to switch
- Headings, checklists, toggles, code, and color
- Rich edits round-trip back to markdown
Link your notes
Type @ to connect one note to another. Each note shows what links back,
so related thoughts stay together.
- @-mention any note to link it
- Backlinks show what points here
- Hover a link to preview the note
All your notes
One window listing every note. Sort by title, length, links, or recency,
filter by color, and read an activity digest of what you've been writing.
- Sortable, filterable list of all notes, ⌘⇧O
- An activity digest of your recent writing
- Select many to show, hide, or delete
Overview map
See every note as a graph, with a line between any two that link. Pan,
zoom, and click a node to jump straight to that note.
Beyond Stickies
Stickies are islands. Here your notes are a connected map.
- Notes as nodes, @-links as edges
- Pan and zoom the whole graph
- Click any node to open the note
Read aloud
Listen to a note while you work. Words highlight as they're spoken so
you can follow along.
Beyond Stickies
The same system speech, now highlighting each word as it reads.
- Built-in text-to-speech
- Word-by-word highlight as it speaks
- Press Esc to stop
Summarize
Turn a long note into a few plain sentences — handled on your Mac, not
sent to the cloud.
- Streaming summary panel
- Sticks to what's in the note
- Requires Apple Intelligence on supported Macs
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Proofread
Catch spelling and grammar mistakes with a preview before anything
changes.
- Preview changes before applying
- Fixes spelling and grammar, not your wording
- Requires Apple Intelligence on supported Macs
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Ask your note
Ask questions in plain language. JuicySticky proposes edits — you
accept or reject each one.
- Open the command palette with ⌘K
- Natural language requests
- You approve every change
Private & local
Your notes never leave your Mac. No account, no cloud sync, no tracking.
- Notes stored locally on your Mac
- No telemetry or analytics
- Only license activation and update checks touch the network
Scheduled reveal
Set a note to stay hidden until a date and time you choose, with an
optional teaser in the meantime. Good for a countdown, a reminder, or
a surprise.
- Pick when a note's contents unlock
- Show a placeholder or teaser until then
- Set per note