Type it, say it, snap it, or drop in a PDF. Scratchpad makes every word searchable, even in voice memos and photos, and your AI assistant can organize it all, on any device.
Never lose a great idea againUS$12 a month, or US$8 if you don't need all the AI features. Pay yearly and get 2 months free. Cancel anytime, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Get startedNo title field, no blank template, no menus to wade through before you can think. Open Scratchpad and write, and your note is already named, saved, and on every device.
Checklists, headings, tables, and callouts come straight from the keyboard. Paste Markdown and it arrives formatted. Ticked items can drop to the bottom, out of your way.
Search reads everything you've written, including the words inside your PDFs, pictures, and attachments, and jumps straight to the line you meant. Press ⇧⌘K from anywhere.
Folders, tags, and links between notes are there when you want more order. They're never a chore you have to do first.
Drop in the floor plan, the signed lease, and the photos from the walkthrough, and keep them next to what you thought about them. Write on a PDF, fill in its form, and leave a sticky note on page two.
Record a thought on the walk home. Scratchpad turns it into text you can read, edit, and search.
Ask it to compare three quotes, tidy up meeting notes, or turn a brain dump into a plan. It works from the note in front of you, and nothing in your note changes until you say yes.
500 assistant messages a month come with the US$12 plan. Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini key instead and there's no limit, for US$8 a month.
Once you're on a paid plan, send a link that can read or edit, give it a password or an expiry date, and see when it was last opened. People you invite edit alongside you in real time, no account needed.
Want the whole world to see it? Publish the note as a clean web page in one click, and unpublish it just as fast.
Passport numbers, the bank details, the journal entry nobody else should read. A locked note is stored encrypted with its own password, nothing we keep can be read without it, and Face ID or Touch ID can open it once you've set that up.
Two-step sign-in, passkeys, and a full version history look after everything else.
Type /remind call the vet Friday at 9am. You'll get an email and a notification on your phone.
Record straight into a note and get the words back as text you can search.
Pen, highlighter, and sticky notes on any page, and forms you can fill in.
Compare any two versions of a note side by side and bring back the one you want.
Keep writing on the plane. Everything syncs the moment you're back online.
Sub-folders with a colour and an icon of their own, #tags, and links between notes, with backlinks to show what points where.
Import Markdown, Word, HTML, RTF, or a whole zip exported from another app.
Connect Scratchpad to Claude, ChatGPT, or any app that supports MCP, so it can search, read, and add to your notes. On paid plans. Scratchpad for AI users.
Paste it, export it, copy it. Your notes are never locked into a format.
Create, search, and append to notes from Shortcuts, scripts, and other apps. On paid plans. Scratchpad for developers.
Light and dark themes, a focus mode, and keyboard shortcuts for everything.
Notes print cleanly, or save as a PDF, with none of the app in the way.
Less than a lunch out, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
500 AI assistant messages every month, included.
What people usually ask before they start. Something we missed? Write to us and a person will answer.
No. Your plan starts as soon as you subscribe, with everything it includes from day one. Instead of a trial there's a 30-day money-back guarantee: if Scratchpad isn't for you, email us within 30 days of your first payment and we'll refund it in full.
Nothing is deleted. Your account pauses: your notes stay exactly as they are, and signing in shows you what it costs to pick up where you left off, at the price of the plan you were on. While an account is paused, its published pages and share links stop working and reminders aren't sent.
Yes: US$120 a year, or US$80 with your own AI key, which is 2 months free. You can choose when you start, or switch in Settings after your first payment. Going yearly starts your year straight away, and the unused part of your month is refunded. Going back to monthly waits until your year is up, so you always get what you paid for.
Each question or request you send to the assistant is one message, however long the answer is. The US$12 plan includes 500 a month, which works out to about 16 a day.
Add an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini in Settings and the assistant uses it instead, with no monthly limit. You pay that provider directly for what you use, and your Scratchpad plan is US$8 a month. If your key stops working, we'll email you and the assistant pauses until you fix the key or switch to the $12 plan.
Your notes are private to your account until you share them. For anything sensitive, lock the note with a password of its own: its text is stored encrypted, and nothing we keep can be read without that password, not even by us. Its name and any password hint stay visible so you can find it, and files in it aren't encrypted.
Yes. Add Scratchpad to your home screen on iPhone, iPad, or Android and it opens like any other app, with notifications for your reminders. Anything you write offline syncs when you're back online.
Yes. Scratchpad for Mac is included with every plan. It starts a new note from any app with ⌃⌥N, shows your reminders as Mac notifications, and signs in with any passkey. There’s an app for Linux too.
Always. Export a note or a whole folder as Markdown, plain text, or JSON, or download everything at once.
US$12 a month, or US$8 with your own AI key. 30-day money-back guarantee.