Nudge your screen edge — or press ⌥⌘N — and a full rich-text editor flies out over whatever you're doing. Checklists, reminders, folders, images, code blocks, iCloud sync. Native macOS, not Electron. Lifetime license, 7-day free trial. Every note is plain Markdown underneath. Your notes never touch our servers.
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Görkem. I built Flyout because I kept losing thoughts between windows.
A phone number mid-call. A "book the table" while planning a weekend. A line worth keeping from an article. The thought always went… somewhere — a sticky note behind a window, a message to myself, a Notes window I had to go find. The note survived; the moment didn't.
So Flyout lives on the edge of your screen. Rest your pointer on the right edge — or press ⌥⌘N — and a full editor flies out over whatever you're doing. Step away and it slides back.
The part I care about most: it's a real editor, not a scratchpad. Type / for headings, checklists and quotes. Attach a reminder to a single line and macOS nudges you at the right moment. Drag notes into folders, pin what matters, search everything. And if you write code, there are syntax-highlighted code blocks too — underneath, every note is plain Markdown you can take anywhere.
Some decisions I'd love pushback on:
• Native AppKit + SwiftUI, not Electron. The editor surface is a WKWebView (TipTap is the best editor I know) — the shell, the menu bar and the storage are all Swift.
• iCloud sync runs through your own account. Your notes never touch my servers — I couldn't read them if I wanted to.
• Folders are flat on purpose. No nesting. One obvious hierarchy beats three confusing ones.
• Lifetime license, no subscription — $24, currently $18. A year of updates is included; renewing is optional and the app never stops working.
Caveats, up front: macOS 14 Sonoma or later. No iOS app yet — that's next. No shared or team notebooks, and that's a permanent architectural choice (private iCloud sync), not a roadmap item.
Free 7-day trial, no account needed: https://getflyout.app
I'll be around all day. I'd love to hear where a thought goes today when both your hands are full — and where Flyout breaks for you.
the "flat folders, no nesting" call is the right instinct for a capture tool - nesting is where these things always turn into filing cabinets nobody maintains. curious how it holds up once someone has a few hundred notes in one flat folder though - is search the only way back in at that point, or is there something like tags/pins to cut across folders without reintroducing hierarchy
Really like the direction you're taking with Flyout. Moving beyond likes and comments to enable real conversations between creators and their communities feels genuinely valuable. Excited to see how this grows - congrats on the launch!
The ⌥⌘N hotkey sliding a full editor out from the edge is such a clean trick — feels like the kind of thing macOS should have shipped with. Nice touch on keeping everything as plain Markdown too, that's the right call.
A lifetime license sold me, and the local Markdown storage is the right call. One thing I'd love: a quick hotkey or menu bar option to drop a clip from any app into Flyout, so I can grab a paragraph or screenshot without switching focus first.
The plain Markdown under the hood is a really thoughtful choice, makes it feel like it'll last beyond any app update. The ⌥⌘N shortcut is a nice touch too.
About Flyout on Product Hunt
“Rich-text notes that fly out from your Mac's screen edge”
Flyout launched on Product Hunt on July 14th, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. Nudge your screen edge — or press ⌥⌘N — and a full rich-text editor flies out over whatever you're doing. Checklists, reminders, folders, images, code blocks, iCloud sync. Native macOS, not Electron. Lifetime license, 7-day free trial. Every note is plain Markdown underneath. Your notes never touch our servers.
Flyout was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (656.2k followers) and Notes (8.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 159.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Flyout?
Flyout was hunted by Görkem Yıldırım. 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.
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