How Koala stacks up against other Mac notes apps.
Koala keeps a small set of notes in a rail at the edge of your Mac screen, which you can pull out next to what you are doing and dock back at the edge. Each page below compares Koala with another notes app, on facts from each maker's own site: price, features, sync and privacy.
The short version
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Two screen-edge notes apps for Mac. Koala is a small rail for the notes you need now; SideNotes is built to capture notes, tasks, links and snippets without leaving the app you are in, with folders, search and Markdown to organise them.
See the full comparisonKoala keeps several notes in a rail at the edge of your screen, each one detachable. Apple Quick Note is a single floating note inside the Notes app, which then lives in the app's Quick Notes folder.
See the full comparisonKoala keeps notes in a rail at the edge of your screen, always beside your work. Unclutter is a slide-down shelf of notes, files and clipboard history for $19.99, where Koala is notes only for $9.99.
See the full comparisonKoala keeps notes in a rail at the edge of your screen, always beside your work. EdgeNotes is a summoned panel for plain Markdown files on disk for $9, where Koala is rich-text notes only for $9.99.
See the full comparisonMore comparisons will be added here as they are published.
These pages are published by Koala, one of the apps compared. The SideNotes facts come from Apptorium's official site — apptorium.com/sidenotes — and the Quick Note facts come from Apple's own support pages — Create a Quick Note on Mac and Set up iCloud for Notes — and prices and features were checked in October 2026.
