Pouchboard

A pouch of stationery.
On the edge of your Mac

Unzip it over whatever you're looking at, and draw, snip, stick and keep ideas the moment they happen. Your screen becomes a stack of clear sheets.

Free, with every pouch and charm ·

Your screen with the pouch unzipped: the tools hang out of it, and the sheet sits over your apps.

Draw over any app

Clicks go to the sheet while a tool is out, and back to your apps when you put it away.

A key for every tool

V, P, E, T, N, S, K. + − is size, Tab is colour. Hold ⌘ to see them all.

Notes and stickers

Peel a sticky note off the pad, stick a bear, trace a stencil shape.

Links as cards

Paste a link, drop a PDF, play a YouTube video right on its card.

Quotes with sources

Words from a page remember it. ⌥⌘C copies a citation, or all of them.

Pins and threads

String things together, group them, find anything in the layers.

Your files, your folder

Plain files in a folder you choose. Put it in iCloud Drive to sync.

Workspaces

A folder for each project, and ⌃1–⌃9 to switch between them.

FAQs

Is it free?

Yes. Pouchboard is free, with every tool and feature, every pouch (After School and Pixel Quest), every charm and every fabric, and the ones added later. Sync and Publish, for your sheets on other devices and on the web, are the only things you can pay for.

How do I open the pouch?

Click or drag its charm, or double-tap ⌥ from any app. You can pick another key in Shop & Settings. Esc puts the tool away, and two quick Escs shut the pouch.

Where are my sheets kept?

In a folder you choose, as ordinary files you can open, back up and browse in Finder, like an Obsidian vault. Nothing is kept on a server.

Does it sync between Macs?

Choose a folder in iCloud Drive (or Dropbox, Google Drive…) and macOS keeps it in sync. There's nothing else to set up.

Which Macs does it run on?

Any Mac with .

Download Pouchboard for Mac

Free, with every pouch and charm ·