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Koala keeps your notes in a rail at the edge of your Mac screen. Hover to open, click to edit, detach a note beside your work. Local-first, $9.99 one-time for macOS 26+.
Hi Product Hunt — I'm Marco, the maker of Koala.
I wanted notes that were always one gesture away without becoming another window to manage. So Koala keeps them in a rail at the edge of the screen: hover to open, click to edit. If a note needs to live next to your work for a while, you can detach it, resize it, and drag it back to the edge afterwards.
A few deliberate choices:
- Local-first — no account needed, and note content stays on your Mac
- iCloud sync is off by default — you turn it on from the menu only if you want it
- $9.99 one-time, no subscription
It needs macOS 26 or later, and there's a live demo on the site if you want to feel the rail before downloading.
I'd love feedback on the edge-rail idea itself — does it fit how you work, and what's missing for you? I'll be here answering.
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About Koala on Product Hunt
“A small rail for the notes you need now”
Koala was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #153 on the daily leaderboard. Koala keeps your notes in a rail at the edge of your Mac screen. Hover to open, click to edit, detach a note beside your work. Local-first, $9.99 one-time for macOS 26+.
Koala was featured in Mac (103.8k followers), Productivity (663.6k followers) and Notes (8.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 185.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Koala?
Koala was hunted by Marco Brito. 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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