Scratchpad is one fast, calm place for your notes, lists, files and voice memos. It syncs to every device you own, finds anything you've ever written, and shares only what you choose.
Free for 7 days, then US$12 a month, or US$9 with your own AI key. Cancel anytime.
No 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 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$9 a month.
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? Once you're on a paid plan, 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 encrypted with its own password, there's no way in 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, #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 so it can search, read and add to your notes. On paid plans.
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.
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.
Try it free for 7 days. Keep going for less than a lunch out.
500 AI assistant messages every month, included.
Everything above for 7 days, with a few limits while you try it:
A card is needed to start. We'll email you 2 days before your trial ends and again the day before. If you don't cancel, your plan starts on day 7 and every limit above lifts.
Start with a card and you get 7 days to try Scratchpad, with 75 AI assistant messages (no limit if you add your own AI key) and 5 voice memo transcriptions of up to 2 minutes each. Publishing, connecting Claude and the API unlock with your first payment. We email you 2 days before the trial ends and again the day before. Cancel before day 7 and you won't be charged.
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$9 a month. That works during the free trial too: add your key and the trial's 75-message limit no longer applies. 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 encrypted, and there's no way in without that password, not even for us. Its name stays 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.
Always. Export a note or a whole folder as Markdown, plain text or JSON, or download everything at once.
Free for 7 days, then US$12 a month, or US$9 with your own AI key.