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Amber Notes for Mac

Apple Notes-style notes app that ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants can search and edit over MCP, with each AI edit highlighted and undoable.

By pinto-notes. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Amber Notes at a glance

Version
1.3.2
Released
12 November 2026
Download size
31 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Productivity
Developer
pinto-notes
GitHub stars
34

About Amber Notes

Notes for iPhone and Mac that ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Codex can read and edit. Feels like Apple Notes, imports it too. Open source, encrypted.

Screenshots

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How to install Amber Notes on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Amber Notes and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.3.2 from pinto-notes's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Amber Notes show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Pinto-Notes-1.3.2.dmg (31 MB).

What is new in Amber Notes 1.3.2

- Signing out now removes your notes from this Mac. They stay in your account and come back when you sign in. If something hasn't synced yet, Pinto Notes says so and offers to keep your notes instead.

All changes: https://pintonotes.com/changelog

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