Now in closed beta
A clearer place to think.
Parchment is a notebook for people who'd rather write the thought down than spend an afternoon configuring an app. One column, every device, no setup. You just open it and write.
Manifesto
You aren't the problem.
If you've cycled through six note apps in two years and still can't find the thought you had on Tuesday — the apps are the problem.
Most note apps ask you to set up before you can write. Pick a vault. Choose a tagging scheme. Build a graph. Decide whether this thought belongs in a project or a note or a daily. By the time the cursor blinks, the thought is gone.
We've spent years inside those apps. We built Parchment because we wanted the opposite: a page that opens before the thought leaves. No vaults. No graph view. No command palette with twelve verbs. Just somewhere to write it down, on every device you carry, that you can find again next Tuesday.
A note is not a project. A note is the thing you write down so you don't forget. A note kept is finished. Whatever happens to it after that, whether it becomes a poem or a grocery list or a sentence you re-read on the bus, is not the app's business.
— Made by someone who took too many notes.
How it works
Three steps. None of them are setup.
- 01
Open Parchment
On your phone, your laptop, the browser at work. Same notebook, same cursor, every time.
- 02
Write the thought down
No setup. No vault to pick. The page is already open. Start typing.
- 03
Find it again
Search by a word you remember, or scroll. Your notes are where you left them. That's the whole feature.
A thought, before it leaves
The thing about a notebook is the cursor is already there. You don't have to decide where this goes before you can write it down.
Maybe it becomes something. Maybe it doesn't. The note is finished either way.
Read this back on the train.
What a note looks like
Serif body, generous line height, one terracotta period when a sentence wants it. That is the whole interface — on every device you own.
Before, and after
The same notes. Less in the way.
Before Parchment
- A vault that took an afternoon to set up.
- Tags. Folders. Daily notes you forgot to fill in.
- A command palette with twelve verbs you'd never use.
- The nagging feeling you should reorganize.
- Tuesday's thought, somewhere on a hard drive.
After Parchment
- A page that opens before the thought leaves.
- One column. Just text and what you wrote.
- Type. Stop. It's already saved.
- Notes that are exactly where you left them.
- Tuesday's thought, found in two seconds.
Join the waitlist
Your turn.
We're letting people in a few at a time. Leave your email, and we'll write when there's room for one more.
What it'll cost when we launch.
Three ways in. Same product on all three. Beta testers lock in whichever they want at 20% off.
$2.99/ month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Reserve this tier from the waitlist.
$24.99/ year
About a coffee a year.
Works out to $2.08 a month. Save 30%.
$59/ once
Pay once. Use forever.
Beta testers lock in this price.
What you get, on every plan
- Every device. iOS, iPad, Mac, Web.
- Unlimited notes.
- End-to-end encrypted sync.
- Export anything to plain text, Markdown, or PDF.
- No ads. No AI upsell.
Beta is currently free. Prices above are what you'll see at launch.