) )
     ( (
   ┌───────┐
   │       │──┐
   │ spare │  │
   │  mug  │──┘
   └───────┘

Small, solid apps for the Mac.

Spare Mug is the workshop of one engineer who has been building software for a long time. The apps here are small on purpose: each one does a single job well, starts fast, and stays out of your way.

Apps

Spare Note

Menu bar notes & scratchpads. Nine scratchpads, one hotkey away. Coming soon to the Mac App Store.

More brewing.

How things are made here

Private by design

No accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking. Your data stays on your Mac.

Native, not wrapped

Written in Swift against Apple's own frameworks. No Electron, no web wrapper, no 400 MB memory bill for a note-taking app.

Built to last

Plain formats underneath, boring technology on purpose, and no subscription attached to something that doesn't need one.