In Agenda, your notes form a timeline for every project (Lifetime 50% off)
I'm Drew, one of the two indie developers of Agenda, a native notes app for Mac, iPhone and iPad. It won an Apple Design Award (2018), and it's on the Mac App Store.
Problem
Most notes apps organize by folder or tag. That works for reference material, but project notes are about time: what came out of a meeting, what's planned for next week, what you decided back in March. In Agenda every note can have a date, so the notes for a project become a timeline.
Here's how I use it. A meeting invite comes in, I accept it, and in Agenda I attach a note straight to that calendar event. I use the note to prepare. On the day, it shows up in my Today overview, or I click the link in the event in the Calendar app and the note opens. During the meeting I write in that same note: checklists, tags, people, dates and reminders, all without leaving the editor. Afterwards it stays in the project's timeline, so months later I can scroll back and see what we decided.
What's new lately
- Siri AI can now create a note, add to one, open one, or move it to another project (macOS 27).
- Send to Agenda: you get a personal email address, and anything you send to it arrives as a note in your Inbox, with images and attachments in place.
- Full MCP support, so AI tools like Claude, Cursor and Codex can search your notes, create and edit notes, and manage projects.
- Updated for the new macOS 27 look.
Comparison
Bear: the same care for design and a real native Mac feel. Bear is great for writing and tagging. Agenda adds dates and full integration with Calendar, Reminders and Contacts, so your notes tie into your events, to-dos and the people you work with. And Bear Pro is subscription only, while Agenda also has a pay-once Lifetime option.
Notion: Agenda is local first, and you control your data. Your notes live on your devices, not on an Agenda server. Sync goes through your own iCloud, so if you turn on Apple's Advanced Data Protection, your notes are end-to-end encrypted and not even Apple can read them. And it's a real Mac app, not a web page in a window.
Pricing
Agenda is free to use. Premium is a yearly subscription, or you pay once with Lifetime. Either way, any feature you unlock is yours to keep forever, even if you stop paying. We don't believe in renting software.
Lifetime is normally $179 (US). With the code AGENDALIFETIME50 it's $89 until 31 October. That's 50% off in every country, in your local price. Redeem the code in the Mac App Store, and Lifetime then unlocks Premium on all your devices.
Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1287445660&code=AGENDALIFETIME50
(Seems Apple are slow in pushing the code out to Mac App Store. If it fails, try again a bit later.)
Website: https://agenda.com
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1287445660
Happy to answer questions.