Easy Notes Support
Last updated: 27 October 2026
Easy Notes is a simple notepad for your Mac: plain text only, encrypted on your Mac. This page answers the questions that come up most.
Getting started
Easy Notes opens to a new note, ready to type. The first line becomes the note's title, and every change is saved as you type. Writing needs a plan: try the yearly plan free for 7 days, or choose monthly or Lifetime.
Plans and prices
- Yearly: US$4.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers.
- Monthly: US$1.99 a month.
- Lifetime: US$9.99, paid once.
Prices are shown in US dollars; the App Store shows the price for your country. To see or change your plan, choose Easy Notes → Plans… from the menu bar. All three plans can be shared with your Family Sharing group.
Cancelling
In the plans window, choose Manage Subscription, or open the App Store, click your name, click your name again, then Subscriptions. To avoid being charged after the free trial, cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. After you cancel, writing stays on while Apple shows your plan as active, normally until the end of the trial or the period you've paid for. Apple's steps: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118428
Refunds
Purchases are made through Apple, and Apple handles refunds: https://reportaproblem.apple.com
Moving to Lifetime
Lifetime is a separate, one-time purchase. If you buy it while a yearly or monthly plan is set to renew, Easy Notes reminds you to cancel the subscription, so you aren't charged again.
Restoring a purchase
On another Mac signed in to the App Store with the same Apple Account, your plan usually appears by itself. If it doesn't, choose Easy Notes → Plans… → Restore Purchases.
Without a plan
Easy Notes always opens. Without a plan you can still open, read, search, copy and export your notes, and delete or recover them. Typing, pasting, cutting, undo and redo, new folders, renaming and moving need a plan.
Your notes stay on this Mac
Easy Notes keeps your notes on this Mac only. They aren't synced to iCloud or your other devices, and they're left out of Time Machine backups. Each note's key is kept in this Mac's keychain and doesn't move to another Mac, so a copy of the notes file can't be read anywhere else. Before you move to a new Mac, export the notes you want to keep, because the new Mac can't open them. To export a note, open it and choose File → Export as Text File…. The exported file is ordinary text and isn't encrypted.
Deleted notes
Deleted notes go to Recently Deleted and wait 30 days before they're deleted for good (or the next time Easy Notes opens, if it's closed then). To bring a note back, choose Recover, or drag it onto a folder. Delete Now and Delete All remove notes for good at once: the note's key is destroyed, so no one can recover it.
Folders, search and windows
- New Folder (⇧⌘N) makes a folder; drag folders to arrange them in any order, and drag notes onto a folder, or right-click → Move To, to file them.
- ⌘-click or ⇧-click to select several notes or folders.
- Search (⌘F) looks through every folder and marks each match; ⌘G goes to the next one.
- Double-click a note to open it in its own window.
- Closing the window keeps Easy Notes running. Click its Dock icon or choose Window → Easy Notes (⌘0) to bring it back; ⌘Q quits.
Why is spelling correction off?
Easy Notes keeps your text exactly as you type it, so spelling correction, text replacement and smart quotes are off. Writing Tools, Services and Look Up are off too, so your text isn't passed to other tools.
Contact
Email [email protected] with "Easy Notes" in the subject and a short description of what's happening. We aim to reply within 1–2 business days.
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