Does Stacco sync with iCloud?

No. Your notes stay on your Mac.

Can I see my notes in full screen?

Yes, they stay visible over full-screen apps. You can turn that off in Settings.

Where do filed notes go?

Into the Archive. You open it from the menu-bar icon, and it has stacks and a search.

Is there a Stacco for iPhone?

No. Stacco is built around pulling notes out of the menu bar, and only the Mac has one.

Not built in. If you want, switch on the AI connection in Settings. An AI app on your Mac, such as Claude, can then put notes on your desktop, read, change and file them. It can't delete anything, and every change shows up in the history. The connection costs nothing extra.

What happens to my notes?

They stay on your Mac, because Stacco doesn't connect to the internet. If you switch on the AI connection, the AI app you connect sees the notes it reads or writes. What its provider does with them is covered by that provider's privacy policy.

Sticky notes for the Mac menu bar

Pull yourself a note.

Pull a note out of the menu bar, as big as you need it. It stays on top of full-screen apps, keeps every version — and Claude & co. can put notes there for you too.

$6.99 once. No subscription.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

The Gesture

All you really do is pull

Pull down

= new note
Pull further

= bigger
Pull sideways

= wide or tall
Push back

= filed away
Flick away

= filed quickly

Stacco: three dotted pull trails from the menu bar to the same note: pulled a little it is small, further it is medium, all the way it is large. — The further you pull, the bigger the note

Full Screen

Stays put in full screen

When an app fills the whole screen, during a video call or a movie, your notes stay in front. If you'd rather they didn't, turn it off in Settings.

Paper

Feels like paper

Let go of a note and it swings for a moment before it hangs straight. There are eight paper colors, real shadows and type that stays easy to read on every color. Small things, but you see them every day.

History

Just rewind

Every note keeps its recent versions. If you typed over something, hover the timeline at the edge and bring the old text back. A note you deleted by accident comes back with Undo, history included. All of it is stored only on your Mac.

Off to the Archive

Push a note back into the menu bar and it goes to the Archive. There you can search, sort and put notes together into stacks, say one per project. When you need a note again, just pull it back onto the desk.

The Stacco archive: a window full of notes, single and in stacks (Recipes, Work), two notes on the desktop beside it.

AI connection

Let your AI take notes

Switch on the AI connection in Settings and an AI app on your Mac, such as Claude, can write notes for you, like the to-dos from your last meeting. The note comes out of the menu bar as if you had pulled it yourself. The AI may read, change, tick off and file notes, but not delete them. The connection is off by default and costs nothing extra.

Stacco with the AI connection: a chat line reads "Put the to-dos from the meeting on a note for me." with a send button. Under the Stacco icon in the menu bar hangs a mint note, "Meeting to-dos", with three open items.

What you won't find

No subscription
No account
No built-in AI
No tracking
No ads

Stacco is a sticky-notes app, and it doesn't want to be anything else.

What else Stacco can do

Quick capture: click the icon or press ⌥⌘N (you can change the shortcut)
Headings, lists and checklists
Export as Markdown
Send to Apple Notes
Share a note as an image, a PNG with its shadow
Archive with search, stacks and sorting
Visible over full-screen apps
⌥⇧⌘H hides every note, handy when you share your screen
AI connection for Claude & co., off by default
Unplug a display and your notes move to the laptop screen, then go back when you plug it in again
Timeline and archive work with VoiceOver
12 languages

Price

$6.99, once

Less than a month of SlashNote Pro, and after that you pay nothing more.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

The name

Why “Stacco”?

Stacco is Italian for peeling off, the moment you pull a note from the pad. And there’s a stack in it, too.

Comparisons

How does Stacco hold up?

Stacco vs. SlashNote

Two menu-bar note apps that work in very different ways.

Stacco vs. Apple Stickies

What Stacco does differently from Apple's own sticky notes.

Stacco vs. Noticky

Two successors to Apple's Stickies, compared.

FAQ · As of: October 2026

Quick answers

Does Stacco sync with iCloud?: No. Your notes stay on your Mac.
Can I see my notes in full screen?: Yes, they stay visible over full-screen apps. You can turn that off in Settings.
Where do filed notes go?: Into the Archive. You open it from the menu-bar icon, and it has stacks and a search.
Is there a Stacco for iPhone?: No. Stacco is built around pulling notes out of the menu bar, and only the Mac has one.
Does Stacco have AI?: Not built in. If you want, switch on the AI connection in Settings. An AI app on your Mac, such as Claude, can then put notes on your desktop, read, change and file them. It can't delete anything, and every change shows up in the history. The connection costs nothing extra.
What happens to my notes?: They stay on your Mac, because Stacco doesn't connect to the internet. If you switch on the AI connection, the AI app you connect sees the notes it reads or writes. What its provider does with them is covered by that provider's privacy policy.

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