Every thought deserves a moment of clarity.
A private, beautifully simple app for your notes, reminders, and tasks. Everything you capture belongs only to you, by design, not by policy.
Early joiners get 30 days free instead of 14 when we launch, and that's all we'll email you about.
Calm to look at. Quick to use.
No grid of features fighting for attention, just your thoughts, in the order you had them.
Most apps ask what you're creating before you've thought about it.
Note. Task. Reminder. Pick one.
Catchlight doesn't ask. There's one kind of thing, a Take. Start writing and it's a note. Add a date and it's a reminder. Add a checkbox and it's a task. All three if it needs to be. The same object, shaped by you, never by the app.
A Take is a thought captured in the moment. It's your perspective. It's spontaneous. It's personal.
A catchlight is invisible when it works. So is our encryption.
Your Takes are end-to-end encrypted on your phone, and whenever they leave your device. We don't hold your keys. We don't see your data. Not because we choose not to, because we genuinely can't. That's not a feature. It's just how it's built.
Encrypted, obviously, how else would you do it?
Four promises, built in, not bolted on.
- No account. No email. No sign-up.
- Offline-first. Every feature works with no connection.
- Open source, so anyone can read the code.
- Your keys, not ours. We can't read your Takes.
"I'd grown to hate that my life and my data had become assets for big tech, and little tech, to buy and sell like I'm a commodity. So I'm building the private, beautiful notes app I couldn't find: slowly, in the open, and yours."