Instant & fast
Opens in a blink, no lag while typing. No spinners, no waiting.
The scratchpad
for vibe
Parker is a fast, minimal Mac editor for notes, code and markdown — the scratchpad you keep open while working with AI: long prompts, plans and quick snippets, without the weight of Notes, VS Code and friends.
v1.4.0 · macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · 7 MB
Work with your AI
Let your AI into your notes.
Your notes are plain files in a folder you chose — so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent can already read and write them. No plugin, no API key, nothing to integrate. Point it at the folder and it's in.
Parker closes the loop from its side: when your agent rewrites a note, the open tab reloads live and marks exactly which lines changed. It never writes over edits you haven't saved: if you both touched the note, it asks you.
- Draft the prompt here, let the agent answer into the same file
- Hand it a task list and watch the checkboxes flip
- Git underneath, so anything an agent wrote can be rolled back
Built to get out of your way.
No ribbon of icons. No formatting toolbar. No “syncing…”. Just you and the text.
Keyboard-first
Summon it anywhere with ⌃⌥P. Almost everything is reachable without touching the mouse.
Lightweight
A small native app built on Tauri — a 7 MB download. All the editor, none of the bloat.
Never lose data
Aggressive auto-save, always on. Optional git history quietly keeps every version as a safety net.
Genuinely themeable
Ten of them — Parker Night and Day, monochrome Vercel and GitHub, the playa at noon and at night, a phosphor tube and a blueprint.
Your data, your rules
Plain files in a folder you own. Sync with iCloud, Dropbox or git — your choice. No servers of ours, ever.
Your data, your rules
Just a folder of plain files.
Parker always writes straight to disk — .md,
.txt and code, in a folder you own. Never a database, never a cloud
you don’t control. Sync it however you like — iCloud, Dropbox, whatever — Parker
stays completely sync-agnostic.
Want it all in git? It’s built in. Commit and push from the status bar, on a timer, or when you quit, with a history you can roll back. A safety net on top of your files, never where they live.
- Always on disk — open your notes in any editor, anytime
- No account, no lock-in, no telemetry
- Optional git backup, built in: commit, push, roll back
Free. Open source. Yours.
Parker is a free, open-source Mac app. Grab it, star it, or read every line.
v1.4.0 · macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon
Coming soon
Parker for iPhone
The companion to the Mac app. It reads the same folder your Mac does, so your notes and to-dos come with you: browse the folders, search, tick a to-do off, jot the next one down. Same look, same plain files. No account, no server of ours, nothing leaves your folder.
In testing now. Free, like the Mac app.
Not a commercial product — a passion project, vibe-coded for my own use and shared with the world. No guarantees, no support, use at your own risk — see the terms and privacy pages.