About Coffee

Coffee is a native Markdown editor and notes app for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. One person makes it: me, Pedro Thomaz, a developer in Leiria, Portugal.

Why it exists

I made Coffee because I wanted one Mac app for writing in Markdown that stays out of the way, keeps notes as plain files, and answers the small sums I write anyway: a trip budget, hours times a rate, how many workdays are left.

I've built AR, VR and AI products since 2014. Coffee is smaller than those on purpose. It's written natively in Swift, for the Mac first and then for iPhone and iPad, and I build it alone.

How it got here

By 5 November 2026 Coffee for Mac was out for download. Since then:

• 5 November 2026. Coffee is out for the Mac.
• 6 to 8 November. Six updates, adding a command palette, Word export, folders in the sidebar, replace across all notes and a version history you can read.
• 10 November. Coffee launches on Product Hunt and finishes the day at #10.
• 12 November. Two more Mac updates, with a graph of how notes link, nested tags and inline maths. The same day, the first version of Coffee for iPhone and iPad, which opens the same notes through iCloud Drive.

What Coffee keeps to

• Your files stay yours. Notes are plain .md files in a folder you choose. Any other editor can open them, and leaving costs nothing. Private notes are the one exception: they're encrypted on disk, so only Coffee can open them.
• Private by default. Coffee keeps notes on your devices, and no Coffee server stores them. Search and Ask run on the device. Notes leave only when you choose: a change you propose goes to your own repository, an AI app you connect reads the notes you allow, and a currency sum fetches exchange rates in a request that says nothing about the note. Once a day the Mac app checks for a new version, sending only its version number and the macOS version. The privacy page has the details.
• Quiet design. Coffee opens to the page you're writing. Everything that reaches outside the app, like the MCP server for AI apps, quick capture and plugins, is off until you turn it on.
• One person you can write to. There's no ticket queue. Write to ola@pedrothomaz.pt and I'll read it and answer.
• Paid for by the people who use it. There are no ads in Coffee. It's free for 14 days, with no card or account. Then €3 a month, €29 a year, or €79 once with two years of updates. One purchase covers the Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Get in touch

Questions, bugs, ideas, or just to say what you use Coffee for: write to ola@pedrothomaz.pt. There's more about me at pedrothomaz.pt, and writers and reviewers can find facts, screenshots and the icon in the press kit.

14 days free, with no card and no account. Then €3 a month, €29 a year, or €79 once with two years of updates. One purchase covers your Mac, iPhone and iPad. macOS 15 or later, iOS 18 or later. See pricing.