Keep every thought with its book
Quotes, questions, chapter notes, and longer reflections stay connected to the work that inspired them.
Margin for macOS · Beta 1.0
Keep what the
page leaves behind.
A quiet, personal reading companion for the passages, questions, and ideas you want to carry beyond the book.
Free during beta · Your data stays local
For active readers
“Not every note needs to become an essay.
Sometimes one honest sentence is enough.”
Margin gives your reading thoughts a permanent home—without giving you another system to maintain.
Inside Margin
A small app for
the parts that matter.
Capture quickly while you read. Organize naturally. Return when you are ready.
Find the thread again
Search books, notes, authors, and tags—or return through the day you first captured the idea.
Build a reading life, gently
A calm activity view helps you notice your rhythm without turning reading into another performance metric.
Capture
A note before the thought slips away.
Return
See what you read and thought on any day.
The Margin philosophy
Your margin.
Your rules.
Local by design
Your library belongs to you, stored on your device and ready to export.
Books stay first
Margin adds a thoughtful layer around reading without trying to become the main event.
No noise
No feed. No notifications. No points to chase. Just your books and what they leave behind.
A record, not a scoreboard
Notice your
reading rhythm.
Reading Streak is a soft nudge—not a tiny supervisor. Review active days, notes, books, and words, then click back into the day itself.
- 30-day activity view
- Day-by-day reading journal
- Gentle progress at a glance
β
Margin Beta 1.0
The first chapter
starts here.
Margin Beta 1.0 is now available for its first macOS readers. This is a small, careful release while the experience is tested, refined, and made sturdier.
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