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Rook
Notes app for code. Save directly from AI via MCP
Rook is a native Mac notes app for the code you write, paste, and keep around. Built for anyone who copy-pastes code, prompts, snippets, or AI outputs. Fast, free, local, and private. Syntax highlighting for 17+ languages, rich text, code blocks, and markdown rendering. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Gemini CLI can save into Rook through the optional, open-source Rook MCP Server. Each AI gets its own inbox. No signup. Everything lives on your machine.
About Rook on Product Hunt
“Notes app for code. Save directly from AI via MCP”
Rook was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 15 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #40 on the daily leaderboard. Rook is a native Mac notes app for the code you write, paste, and keep around. Built for anyone who copy-pastes code, prompts, snippets, or AI outputs. Fast, free, local, and private. Syntax highlighting for 17+ languages, rich text, code blocks, and markdown rendering. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Gemini CLI can save into Rook through the optional, open-source Rook MCP Server. Each AI gets its own inbox. No signup. Everything lives on your machine.
On the analytics side, Rook competes within Mac, Productivity and Notes — topics that collectively have 763.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Rook performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Rook?
Rook was hunted by Ton. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Rook including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Every dev has a chaotic scratchpad full of unformatted code snippets and AI dumps. A local-first Mac app with an MCP server to pipe outputs from Cursor or Claude Code straight into dedicated AI inboxes is a brilliant workflow upgrade.
Quick question: Since AI streams can fill up an inbox fast, how does long-term organization look? Does Rook support global search or auto-tagging to keep snippets easily searchable over time?