Download Pinak

Free during the public beta. Version 1.0.0. No account needed.

Not sure which Mac you have? Choose Apple menu › About This Mac. If the Chip says “Apple M…”, pick Apple Silicon. If it says “Intel”, pick Intel. A Mac App Store version is coming soon.

Installing on a Mac

This beta is not yet signed by Apple, so your Mac will ask you to confirm it once.

1. Open the .dmg and drag Pinak onto Applications.
2. Open Pinak from Applications. macOS says it cannot verify the app. Click Done.
3. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, and click Open Anyway next to “Pinak was blocked”. Confirm with your password or Touch ID. You only do this once.

Mac Intel: search by meaning is switched off in the Intel build, so search matches words only. Everything else works.

Installing on Windows (beta)

The Windows version is a beta and is not signed yet. It has had less testing than the Mac version, so you may meet rough edges. Please tell us if you do.

1. Right-click the downloaded .zip and choose Extract All… into a folder you keep, for example C:\Users\you\Apps\Pinak. Don’t run it from inside the zip.
2. Open the folder and double-click Pinak.exe.
3. Windows may show “Windows protected your PC”. Click More info, then Run anyway. You only do this once.
4. The first start can be slower while Windows checks the files.

On Windows, shortcuts use Ctrl, Shift and Alt instead of ⌘ ⇧ ⌥.

Good to know

• Your notes live in a folder on your computer (on a Mac, ~/Library/Application Support/pinak; on Windows, %APPDATA%\pinak). Back it up if you care about your notes. Pinak also has its own backup option.
• There is no sync yet, so each computer has its own library.
• To remove Pinak, quit it and delete it. To remove your notes too, delete the folder above.

Questions or problems? See the beta page.