Stickytray keeps your notes floating above every window, every Space and every full-screen app. One keystroke hides them all, and they stay out of screen sharing in most apps.
What they see
Stickytray is a menu bar app for macOS 14 and later that keeps sticky notes floating above all windows, including full-screen apps. It costs $9.99 once, needs no account, and syncs through your own iCloud.
Open the disk image and drag Stickytray to Applications.
Paste the license key from your purchase email.
A note opens at your pointer, in any app. That's it.
Quick to make, always where you can see it, and gone the moment you need a clean screen.
New note ⌃⌥N
Press ⌃⌥N in any app and a note opens right under your pointer, ready to type. Select some text and press ⌃⌥C to turn it into a note.
Send the Q4 numbers to the team by Friday.
Hide all ⌃⌥H
About to share, present or hand your Mac to someone? ⌃⌥H takes every note off the screen at once. Press it again and they're back exactly where they were.
Screen sharing
Every note is marked “do not share”, so macOS leaves it out of screen sharing in most apps. Share one window and notes are never included. A built-in Privacy Check tests your Mac in seconds.
Reminders
Turn on sync for a note and its checklist lives in Reminders too. Tick an item on your iPhone and the note updates on your Mac, and the other way round.
Today Reminders
Menu bar
Stickytray lives in the menu bar, not the Dock. Click it to search every note, bring one forward, or switch hiding and click-through on and off.
Writing
Lists, checklists, links and the Markdown shortcuts you already know. The format bar only shows up while you write, so notes stay calm the rest of the time.
**bold***italic*- list1. steps[ ] task⌘K linkA different one for each new note, or always your favorite.
From 40% to solid, note by note.
Double-click the top edge to fold a note away.
Clicks pass through notes to the app behind. ⌃⌥T
Unplug a monitor and notes move over. Plug it back in, they return.
Lock a note so it can't be dragged by accident.
Every deleted note waits 30 days before it's gone.
Send a copy of any note to Apple Notes, or import one.
Apple's Stickies is fine for simple notes, and there are other floating-note apps. Here is where Stickytray is different.
StickytrayStickies as included with current macOS. “Other floating-note apps” sums up what we found in the App Store and website listings of popular floating-note apps in November 2026; individual apps differ.
No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your notes stay on your Mac, and in your own iCloud if you turn sync on. We never see them.
No subscription, no upsells, no feature held back. The earlier you buy, the less you pay.
Stickytray
One-time purchase
$9.99$28
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Stickytray is a one-time purchase with no subscription: $9.99 for the first 100 licenses, then $18 for the next 200, then $28. Sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where it applies. Everyone gets every feature, whatever they paid.
Yes. Stickytray keeps sticky notes above every window, on every Space and over full-screen apps, which Apple's Stickies and Notes can't do. Every option compared.
Yes. Notes float above every window, on every Space, over apps in full screen and with Stage Manager on. That is the main thing Apple's Stickies can't do.
In most cases, yes. When you share a single window, notes are never included, in any app. When you share your whole screen it depends on the app and your macOS version, and Zoom has one setting to choose. Stickytray has a built-in Privacy Check to test your Mac, and ⌃⌥H hides every note when you need to be certain. How it works.
No. There is no sign-up, no analytics and no tracking. Your notes are stored on your Mac, and sync through your own iCloud if you turn that on.
No. Stickytray is for the Mac. Checklists you sync with Reminders show up in Reminders on your iPhone and iPad.
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel.
3 Macs. To move a license to another Mac, choose Settings › License › Deactivate This Mac on the old one.
No. Stickytray costs $9.99 once. If it isn't right for you, you get a full refund within 14 days of buying.
On your Mac. If you turn on iCloud sync, they are also kept in your own private iCloud database. We never see your notes.
Only to activate your license and to check for updates. Notes work offline, and the app checks your license about once a week when it can.
Stickies is free and fine for simple notes. Its notes don't stay over full-screen apps, can't be hidden from screen sharing and don't sync between Macs. Full comparison.
Yes, for your own talking points. Share a single window to be certain notes stay out, or press ⌃⌥H to hide them all before you share your whole screen.
Yes. Notes stay put with Stage Manager on, and when you unplug a display its notes move to the remaining one, then return when you plug it back in.
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macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel