Changelog

A toolbar over the text you select

Select text with the mouse (drag across it, double-click a word, triple-click a line, or Shift+click) and a small toolbar appears just above it with Strikethrough, Highlight, Link and Code block. It stays up while you use it, so a line can be struck through and highlighted in one go, and goes away when you click elsewhere, type or press Escape. Selecting with the keyboard never shows it, and every tool keeps its shortcut.

Find in a note

Ctrl+F (⌘F on a Mac) in a note opens a find bar under its text. Every match on the page lights up with a count beside it ("3 of 12"); Enter and Shift+Enter, or F3 and Ctrl+G, step through them, and Escape closes the bar with the match selected. Find ignores case, searches code blocks and the names of file shortcuts and sound clips, and changes nothing in the note, so it works on locked notes. In the hub, Ctrl+F still opens Search Notes.

Your latest notes in the tray and Dock menus

Right-click the tray icon (on a Mac, the Dock icon) and the menu starts with the five notes you edited most recently, each named by its title or first line. Click one to bring it to the front: a hidden note comes back, a collapsed one opens up, and a minimized one is restored.

Premium is activated in the app

There is one download for everyone. Premium customers install the regular download and click Activate Premium… under About in the ☰ menu, or Activate… on the note-limit message, then approve the computer in the browser, and the app unlocks a few seconds later with no restart. Until then, notes beyond the Free limit open read-only, and nothing is lost. The 1.4 Premium download stays on your account page for a while, and one you already have keeps working. The Microsoft Store version uses Store purchase instead.

A welcome note for new users

The first time you open Better Stickies, one note titled Welcome shows what it does beyond a plain sticky note, as a checklist to try, in your language. It is an ordinary note: edit it, keep it or delete it. Help no longer opens by itself on the first start.

A shortcut to collapse a note

Ctrl+Shift+M (⌘M on a Mac) folds the note you are in down to its header, and pressing it again opens it back up with the cursor in the text. Like every in-app shortcut it can be changed or turned off.

New note from inside a note

Ctrl+N (⌘N on a Mac) now works from inside a note too, not only from the hub.

Ctrl+W closes every window

Ctrl+W (⌘W on a Mac; Ctrl+F4 too on Windows) closes About, Reminders, Trash, Settings, a note's Settings, the shortcut windows, Export, Insert Link, the color picker, the reminder window and Premium activation, each the way Escape closes it.

Insert Link… in the right-click menu

Right-click in a note to add a link where you clicked, or around the selected text.

"Don't ask me again" for moving to the trash

Tick it when you move a note or page to the trash, and later deletes go straight to the trash. Settings › Notes switches the question back on. A note with a reminder still always asks.

Upgrade to Premium in the ☰ menu

In the free version, the hub's ☰ menu ends with Upgrade to Premium, which opens the pricing page (in the Microsoft Store app, the Store's purchase window).

WindowsAn installer

BetterStickies_1.5.0_Setup.exe installs just for you, so it never asks for an administrator password, and adds Better Stickies to the Start menu (a desktop shortcut is optional) and to Settings › Apps. To update, run the next version's setup: it closes the running app, your notes saved first, and starts the new version when it finishes. Uninstalling keeps your notes and settings. Coming from the single-file .exe: quit it and run the setup, and everything is still there. The setup is not signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" first (More info, then Run anyway). Its pages show the app's logo and follow light and dark mode.

macOSEdit, Window and Help menus

Edit has Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All, plus the Mac's own Emoji & Symbols and Start Dictation; Window's Minimize sends the hub to the Dock or folds the note you are in down to its header, and Bring All to Front brings your notes on screen; Help opens Better Stickies Help and searches the menus. About Better Stickies is in the app menu like other Mac apps, and its settings item reads Settings… in every language.

macOSAlways-on-top notes stay over full-screen apps

A note set to Always on Top now stays on screen when another app is in full screen, and you can type in it there. A note with Always on Top off stays on your desktops.

LinuxNative Wayland

Better Stickies runs as a native Wayland app where no X11 is available, most notably the Flathub version on a Wayland desktop, so it looks sharper on scaled displays. Everywhere else it keeps the X11 way that remembers where your notes are; to try native Wayland anyway, turn on Use native Wayland in Settings › General › Startup and restart. On native Wayland the desktop decides where windows go, so snap to grid and always on top are greyed out, with a tooltip saying why. The Troubleshooting guide lists every difference.

LinuxKDE Plasma keeps always on top and note positions on native Wayland

Better Stickies asks KDE's window manager to do what Wayland doesn't let apps do themselves, so always on top works and notes and the hub come back where you left them. The Flathub version on KDE gets this too when its sandbox gives it access to KDE's window manager; the Snap version can't reach it, so nothing changes there.

A shorter footer

With strikethrough, highlight and link in the selection toolbar, the footer holds nine buttons in four groups and fits on one row at the usual note width, so most notes gain a line of text.

Code blocks take your note's color

A code block's background is a shade of the note's color instead of the theme's light or dark panel, and its text uses the note's text color. Change either color and every code block follows; switching the app theme no longer changes them. On a note with a background picture, code sits on a neutral gray panel. A code block of ordinary sentences, such as the ``` sections of a pasted Markdown file, is no longer colored like code.

Settings, redesigned

Settings and a note's Settings group their options on cards, each on/off option is a switch, and Theme, Positioning and Pasted Images are side-by-side choices. Nothing moved, and every setting works as before. The shortcut windows match, and In-App Shortcuts fits a small screen.

Confirmations say what they do

Every button names its action (Move to Trash, Delete Forever, Empty Trash, Hide All Notes…) next to Cancel. Where nothing is lost for good, Enter (Return on a Mac) takes the action; where something can't be undone, Enter cancels. Escape always cancels. On a Mac, moving a note to the trash asks in the Mac's own alert.

A redesigned reminder window

The date and time window is redesigned, and the time follows your clock: where your language and region use a 24-hour clock it asks for 0–23 with no AM/PM. Enter saves the reminder, and a time that has passed gets a red outline instead of an error after OK.

A lighter look for the hub and note header

The hub's title and icons are light gray instead of bright green (a hub color you applied in Settings stays), its buttons stay readable on hover in every theme, and the note header's collapse arrow is a chevron in the note's text color.

The highlight button starts blue

Blue shows on the default yellow note, where yellow barely did.

A cleaner About window

On Free, Upgrade to Premium is now a button, with Activate Premium… under it.

Help for "This computer has no system ID"

When Premium can't be activated because the computer's system ID is missing, the activation window links to the Troubleshooting guide's fix for your system.

Clearer Portuguese and Japanese

Portuguese is Brazilian Portuguese throughout, and the Japanese text reads consistently.

WindowsLinuxNotes use your system's font

A fresh install starts notes and the hub in the system font, as on a Mac. Notes that still used Inter, which most computers didn't have, switch once.

WindowsLinuxFaster starts, no splash screen

The installed Windows app and the Linux AppImage (and the Flatpak) no longer unpack themselves into a temporary folder at every start, which on Linux used to take about 200 MB of memory.

macOSA new app icon

The logo on a cream rounded square like other Mac apps, the same in Finder, Launchpad and the Dock while the app runs.

LinuxDragging is your desktop's own window move

Dragging a note or the hub follows the pointer like any other window.

Reminders are safer with the trash and backups

A reminder can no longer outlive its note when something goes wrong while the note moves to the trash, and the daily backups include your reminders, so restoring one brings them back.

Pictures and sound clips in restored notes

Notes restored from a backup on another computer, under another user name, or after switching between the Snap and another Linux version show their pictures and play their clips again.

Pictures in table cells

A picture used as a table cell's background is no longer deleted when another note holding the same picture is deleted for good.

Enter in the shortcut windows

Enter now saves, instead of resetting all your global shortcuts at once or clearing an in-app shortcut.

Enter in the reminder window

Enter saves the reminder instead of switching AM and PM, and "PM" is translated.

Only installed fonts

Font choices accept only installed fonts, so a typo in the font list no longer leaves notes in a stand-in font.

Windows fit their text

About, Export, the reminder window and Global Shortcuts open wide and tall enough for their text in every language, and About fits a 1280 × 720 screen.

Settings layout

Dropdown lists in Settings open correctly, a long notes-folder path no longer widens Settings, and Settings can't be squeezed out of shape.

Code-block editing

Ctrl+M next to a code block, a link keeping its color when a code block turns back into text, and Backspace over a selection that ends on an empty code-block line all work as expected.

Arabic button order

Cancel and the main button are no longer swapped in Insert Link, the color picker and the reminder window.

Quitting with a startup message open

Signing out, shutting down or running the installer while a startup message is open closes Better Stickies normally, with its notes saved.

Export

Export starts in your Documents folder (on a Mac it used to open on the disk itself), and works with a note file someone edited outside the app.

Tray and Dock menus wait for open windows

With a window such as Settings open, the menus no longer open their items behind it.

macOSShortcuts, hub and clock

⇧⌘M and ⇧⌘Y reach the note again with text selected instead of being taken by macOS Services, hiding the hub no longer brings a note to the front, and times follow your region's 12- or 24-hour clock when opened from the Finder or the Dock.

LinuxShortcut commands outside KDE

The commands your desktop's keyboard shortcuts run work on GNOME, Cinnamon and other desktops, and View Setup Guide in Global Shortcuts opens the setup guide again.

LinuxThe plain program file

It is no longer published; download the AppImage instead. Your notes stay where they are, and the AppImage takes over launch at login after you start it once.

Better Stickies for Mac: a .dmg for Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 15 Sequoia or later, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS lets it open and only asks you to confirm the first launch. Open it and drag the app to Applications. It has the same features, free version and price as on Windows and Linux.

Made for the Dock: the app lives in the Dock rather than the menu bar. A click on the Dock icon shows or hides the hub, a right-click opens the app's menu, and a due reminder badges the Dock icon with the number of overdue reminders.

Notes on every Space: notes and the hub follow you from one Space to the next, with nothing to set up.

Global shortcuts with no permission to grant: ⌃⌥N for a new note, ⌃⌥S to search, ⌃⌥H to hide or show all notes and ⌃⌥V to turn the clipboard into a note work from any app, without the Accessibility permission. They follow your keyboard layout and can be changed in Settings.

The Mac's own keys: ⌘, opens Settings, ⌘W closes Search and the Help window, ⌘⌫ deletes back to the start of the line in a note, and in-app shortcuts use ⌘ (⌘B for bold). Where Apple Notes or Safari has a key of its own, Better Stickies uses it; the Keyboard Shortcuts guide lists them.

Pictures and sound clips in notes restored from a backup made on another computer, or under another user name, show and play again: Better Stickies now finds them in the data folder it is using.

A picture used as a table cell's background is no longer deleted when another note holding the same picture is deleted for good.

Search is now a notes browser: the Search window lists every note as a card with its color, title, when it was last edited, its first two lines, and badges for pages, reminders, locked and hidden notes. Beside the list, a live preview shows the selected note in its own colors, with its lists, pictures, file shortcuts and sound clips. A hidden note can be read there without putting it back on the desktop, and text can be copied straight from the preview.

Act on a note from Search: from the preview you can rename a note, hide or show it, lock it, open its settings, export it, or delete it. The sort button orders the list by Modified, Created or Title. The All, Visible and Hidden filters show how many notes match in each, notes whose name matches come first, and the arrow keys and Enter work while you type.

Export one note: Export… in Search saves just the selected note as text, Markdown or JSON, named after the note.

Bullet and numbered lists: the footer's list button makes checkbox, bullet or numbered lists. A plain click applies the type you used last; hold the button or right-click it to pick another. Tab and Shift+Tab nest items, and nested numbers go 1., a., i. like a word processor. Typing "- ", "* " or "1. " at the start of a line starts a list.

Highlighting: a new highlight button paints a background color behind text, in six colors, with No highlight to remove it. Keyboard: Ctrl+Shift+L.

Underline: Ctrl+U underlines text.

Colored code: code blocks color their comments, strings, numbers and keywords for many common languages, in shades that stay readable on any note color.

Sound clips in notes: drop a sound file onto a note (MP3, WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis or Opus) and it becomes a clip with a play badge showing its length. The app keeps its own copy of clips up to 50 MB, so the clip survives moving or deleting the original; a larger file stays linked to where it is. Click it to play inside the note, with pause, seek and stop. A page holding several clips gets previous and next buttons and can play them one after another. Playing inside the note isn't available in the Snap and Arch builds yet; clips open in the default player there.

Align lines: the new align button (or Ctrl+E) moves a line to the center, then the right, then back. Pictures, file shortcuts and sound clips move with their line.

Text direction per note: text direction moved to Note Settings, with Automatic, Left to right and Right to left, and a default for new notes in Settings.

Safer saving: each note is now saved in its own file, and only the notes you change are written. A damaged file costs one note instead of all of them, and the app tells you at startup if a note file can't be read. Once a day, a copy of every note goes to a separate backups folder, keeping the last seven days.

Start when you log in: on Linux and in the Windows download, a new "Start Better Stickies when I log in" checkbox in Settings adds the app to your startup applications, so notes and reminders are there after every reboot. Off by default. On Windows, turning it off in Task Manager is respected: Settings shows the checkbox grayed out, and the app never turns it back on. It is coming to the Flatpak in a later update.

Polish: the app now speaks Polish. Pick it in Settings, or it is chosen automatically on a Polish system.

A fresh look: Trash and Reminders show notes as cards, like Search. On Windows, Search, Settings and the other dialogs follow the accent color you picked in Personalization. Links, buttons and check boxes are easier to read in both themes, light-theme windows use a soft gray background, and a note's own buttons light up in the note's text color instead of a fixed blue.

Settings is regrouped into two tabs, General and Notes, and Note Settings applies every change as you make it.

New app icon: three fanned sticky notes forming a "B", everywhere the app shows its icon. From December 5 to January 8 it wears a winter hat and scarf.

The pin is now Lock: the header's pin button locks a note against moving, resizing and editing, so it is now a padlock labeled Lock Note. A note over the Free limit shows a crown instead.

Text color in one click: the text color button now applies the color you used last; hold it to choose another.

One click opens an image full size, instead of a double click.

Pictures appear the moment you drop or paste them: large photos show at once as a soft gray box and fill in a moment later, and notes full of big pictures no longer freeze while resizing or opening.

Ctrl+W hides the note you are typing in, and Search gains Ctrl+W to close and Ctrl+F to jump to the search box.

The footer is grouped and fits the narrowest note, in two rows at most, and a note is now one even color.

File shortcuts are easier to read: they use the note's text color on a soft gray background instead of a fixed blue.

Several files dropped at once go one per line, and one undo removes the whole drop.

Pasted code is recognized more often, including config files and shell commands, while ordinary prose stays plain text.

A "System default" font entry follows your system's own font.

The AppImage starts on Ubuntu and Debian without installing anything first.

Help gains a What's New tab, and About lists the third-party licenses.

Renaming a link or dragging a file shortcut out of a note no longer crashes the installed app.

Notes on a second monitor return to it after the computer sleeps.

The Settings window fits on smaller and scaled screens, and the mouse wheel no longer changes settings while scrolling.

Your latest edits are saved at quit even if another shutdown step fails.

With the app in Arabic, starting it no longer marks every note as modified.

Pasted lists and web text now match the note's font size and follow later font changes.

Images and links pasted from another computer's network share are no longer loaded, so Windows never connects to that share without asking.

Deleting a note forever now removes its pasted screenshots on Windows too.

Code blocks stay left to right in right-to-left notes.

Restoring a note that was deleted while hidden keeps it visible after a restart.

Search, Trash and Reminders use the right plurals in every language, and Trash no longer says "1 minutes ago".

PDF previews show the page on white paper.

The Global Shortcuts dialog and every Settings tooltip are translated.

Ctrl+scroll font zoom on touchpads steps once per notch instead of racing across sizes.

A note full of large pictures no longer freezes when you copy from it.

Starting the app again brings the hub back. When the hub is hidden in the system tray, launching BetterStickies from the taskbar, Start menu or launcher used to say it was already running; on Windows 11 the tray icon usually sits behind the overflow arrow, so it was easy to conclude the app was broken. The new launch now hands off to the running app and the hub reappears, with the extra copy closing itself quietly. The "already running" message still appears when the running copy genuinely cannot be reached: while it is still starting up, if it has stopped responding, or sometimes when the two were installed in different package formats.

Linux: a show-hub command. betterstickies-cmd.sh show-hub asks the running app to show the hub, so it can be bound to a desktop keyboard shortcut. It also doubles as a recovery path when the hub is hidden and the desktop has no system tray. The helper script in the configuration folder now updates itself when the app starts, so upgrading is enough to get the new command. Not available in the Snap and Flathub builds.

A caution about syncing the data folder across computers. Syncing it with your own cloud service still works, but use BetterStickies on one computer at a time until a planned storage update. The whole note collection lives in a single file, so if two computers edit notes at once, the sync service can settle the clash by replacing that file and one computer's changes overwrite the other's. The "Backing Up Your Notes" guide now describes the safe routine.

On Linux Mint and other Cinnamon desktops, notes no longer float above every other application once the hub is open. They still stay out of Alt+Tab, and windows stack normally again: always-on-top notes stay on top, the rest go behind whatever you are working in.

Windows: notes no longer disappear for good after Show Desktop or Win+D. They now restore themselves without stealing focus, so you still get the desktop, just with the sticky notes on it. Hiding notes deliberately is unchanged.

A reminder whose notification cannot be shown is no longer lost. It stays armed and retries every minute, including after a restart, instead of counting as delivered the moment it was attempted.

Quitting any way other than the tray's Exit no longer risks losing your last edits or forgetting where you put the hub. Every quit now runs the same cleanup.

An image set to Medium or Small now keeps that size after you restart the app. Existing images are converted automatically at the size they were shown.

Photos dragged in from a phone or camera are no longer inserted sideways. Their embedded rotation is applied before the image is stored.

Theme, language, notification, image and keyboard-shortcut settings can no longer be corrupted by a crash mid-save.

Re-picking an image's current size no longer adds an invisible step to the undo history.

TXT and Markdown exports now use the same wording for their headers, and an untitled page reads "Page 2" instead of "Page: Page 2".

Note Tabs: up to three pages per note. Add a page from the Add Page button in the note's footer (or its right-click menu) and a slim tab strip appears, one tab per page. A shopping list, a set of meeting notes and a scratchpad can share one window instead of three. Each page keeps its own text, scroll position and undo history. Tabs name themselves after the first line and rename as you type; double-click to pin a name of your own, and drag to reorder. Notes you already have are untouched and show no tabs at all. The strip only appears once you add a second page, and disappears again when you close back down to one. Closing a page moves it to Trash as a note you can restore, so nothing is ever thrown away.

Page shortcuts (Ctrl+PgDown / Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl+Shift+N): Move to the next and previous page, or add a page to the note you're in. All three appear under a new Pages section in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts and can be rebound or switched off.

Search reads every page: Search used to see only the page a note happened to be showing, so anything on your second and third tabs was invisible to it. It now covers every page of every note, including hidden notes and pages you have never opened. A note matching on two pages appears as two results, each labeled with its note and tab name (Groceries › Weekend), and opening one takes you to that page with every occurrence tinted in the note's own color. The highlight is purely visual and never becomes part of the note.

Double-click an image to enlarge it: Double-click an inline image (or right-click and choose Open Image) to open it centered at original resolution, scaled down only if it is bigger than your screen. Small text in pasted screenshots becomes readable without resizing the note. Dismiss with Esc, Space, Enter, a click anywhere, or by switching windows.

Start with the hub hidden: Hiding the hub used to last only until you quit. A new Start with the hub hidden option in Settings → Appearance keeps it in the system tray from launch, so BetterStickies can sit quietly in the background. This is particularly useful if you add it to your startup applications. Notes still open as normal.

Microsoft Store in-app purchase: Premium can be bought and activated inside the app on the Store build, without leaving for the website

A banner confirms when Premium has been activated, so it is clear the purchase went through

The free version now has exactly one limit: the separate caps on reminders and animated GIF backgrounds are gone, so you can set both on every note you have. What remains is a shared budget of 4 slots, with each extra tab using one. Existing users over the limit lose nothing: extra notes become read-only, and deleting a note (or closing a tab) unlocks them again

Reminders are now a strip on the note instead of a chip in your text: a reminder used to sit inside your content as a small image, so it could be selected, copied and deleted like ordinary text. It now has its own row between your text and the footer, so it cannot be edited away by accident, never lands in an export, and never travels with copied text. The footer bell shows its status by color, and Edit and Remove live in the reminder's own menu. Existing reminders are migrated automatically

The footer steps out of the way while you type: the formatting row used to sit on top of the line you were writing. It now stands down as you type and returns the moment you move the mouse. Arrow keys and shortcuts do not hide it

A color picker built for the app: about half the size of the old one and identical on KDE, GNOME and Windows. It offers a grid of 40 colors, a row of your recent picks, a saturation and brightness square with a hue slider, and a hex field. It works fully from the keyboard and announces itself to screen readers, and unlike the old one it is translated into all 11 languages

File shortcuts use crisp, theme-matched icons instead of emoji: file types are recognized the way your file manager recognizes them, so images, audio, archives, documents, programs and source code each get their own icon, where 42 common types used to collapse to a single paperclip. The icon is no longer part of the shortcut's name, so it stops turning up in exports, search results and reminder titles. Shortcuts you already have keep working; drag the file in again for the new look

A Help window replaces the first-run guide notes: it never counts against the note limit, so a new free user starts with the whole allowance. It shows the app's real button icons rather than emoji stand-ins, covers this release's features, and names the shortcut you actually have bound, saying nothing about one you have switched off

All dialogs share one visual design system: the same spacing grid, type scale and flat button style everywhere, with destructive actions (Delete Forever, Empty Trash, Remove Image) shown in red so they are recognizable before you click. Search and Reminders get card-style tables with whole-row hover, and Reminders shows status as tinted pills with a count summary ("3 overdue · 5 upcoming")

The app introduces itself as "Better Stickies": window titles, the hub, tray tooltips, About and Help, launcher entries and store listings, in all 11 languages. Nothing technical changes: your data, launchers and scripts keep working untouched

Text copied between notes adopts the destination note's style: plain text takes on the destination's font, size and color instead of dragging the source note's along. Deliberate styling such as custom colors, highlights, titles, links and code blocks still travels. Text copied into other applications lands in that app's own defaults

The footer color button is purely a highlight tool: it now colors only what you select or type next, exactly like the bold button. A note's default text color is changed in Note Settings only

You can now donate by PayPal: buy Me a Coffee and PayPal sit side by side. Community → Reddit opens r/BetterStickies, and Developed by links to the developer's Reddit

Menus and dialogs use themed icons instead of emoji: emoji rendering depended on whichever font your system had, and looked different or broke across platforms

Button labels are no longer heavy: button text was bold everywhere, which read as noticeably heavier than intended with some desktop fonts

The hub's font setting is labeled "Hub Font": it used to say "UI Font", which suggested it changed the whole interface when it only ever set the hub's own font

Arabic: the app is called Better Stickies. The Arabic interface titled the hub and tray icon with a generic "sticky notes" while note windows already used the product name

The Insert Link window has been tidied up: the two fields are now the same width and the window is smaller for it. Whether an address is usable is still obvious, but the field only turns red once you click away, instead of flashing at every half-typed address

The Snap launcher entry and the Flathub listing are fully localized: launcher search keywords were expanded too, across AppImage, Snap, Flatpak and Arch (sticky notes, post-it, memo, checklist, to-do)

The user guide has been refreshed: two new pages, Note Tabs and Pasting Content, cover features that had no documentation at all, and Getting Started is now a genuine overview that links out instead of re-teaching every topic

⚠️ Hand-wired KDE shortcuts need updating: the app's D-Bus service name changed from org.betterstickies.App (path /org/betterstickies/App) to com.betterstickies.BetterStickies (path /com/betterstickies/BetterStickies). The bundled command script and the app's own global shortcuts were updated automatically, but a KDE custom shortcut wired by hand against the old name has to be pointed at the new one

Windows: cleaner Task Manager grouping. The note window title and the executable's file description now carry the product name instead of generic text

Notes, reminders and trash are all protected the same way: automatic backup copies and safe writes now cover every kind of data the app stores, not just notes, with daily snapshots as a longer-term net. A damaged, truncated or emptied file is set aside as a rescue copy instead of overwriting the last good version

Every date in the app reads in your language: note headers, search results, reminders and exports now use your own month names, your region's clock, and the day and month in the order your language writes them. They used to be English month names on an English 12-hour clock, with a month-first short form that reads as the wrong date nearly everywhere outside the United States

Exported files are no longer half in English: the header, the Created and Modified labels, page headings and the image list all follow your app language

Titles, fonts and colors stay in proportion permanently: text that is not deliberately styled now follows the note's font, size and default color, including across restarts. Titles scale with every font change instead of freezing at whatever size the note had when they were created. Font changes are instant now, even on large notes

Long to-do lines wrap under their own text: this works at every nesting level and in right-to-left notes, and the alignment keeps up when you change the note's font. Existing checklists pick it up automatically

The system tray guidance is translated, including the instructions for desktops without a usable tray. That is the one moment the app refuses to do what you asked, which is exactly when you need to be able to read it

Hover popups have properly rounded corners and sharp previews: image and PDF previews are decoded at your screen's real pixel density, and a file edited on disk shows its updated preview rather than a stale one

Link hover tooltips no longer cut off long addresses: long addresses and paths wrap and show in full

The Export and Choose Background Image windows are readable again. On some systems they opened as an almost entirely black panel, with the folder list, file name and column headings invisible

The "Premium Version" heading in About is readable in the light theme

Deleting a note no longer skips the confirmation when it looks blank. A note you gave a title but have not typed into is no longer deleted silently either.

Markdown export no longer lists every screenshot twice, once inline and again under Images. Only images the export did not already embed are listed

Pasting Markdown over selected text no longer swallows the formatting. Task lists, fenced code and tables all convert whether or not you paste over a selection

Read-only notes are genuinely read-only. Dragging in a file, Ctrl+scroll, flipping text direction, renaming a link and renaming the title are all refused, and controls that would do nothing are grayed out

Locked notes no longer toggle checkboxes when clicked

A ☐ or ☑ in the middle of a line no longer hijacks clicks. Only a checkbox leading its line toggles

The Todo button no longer drops a checkbox into code blocks

Checking off the last task in a nested list no longer leaves an indented leftover line

Undoing a ticked-off task now takes one step instead of two

Pasted checklists line up straight away, instead of only after the note is reopened

Text pasted with a hanging-indent style, such as bibliographies and citation lists, no longer sticks out past the note's edge

Code blocks in reopened notes work again without touching them first, follow the app theme across restarts, and survive deleting into their edges

Markdown export keeps code blocks intact, as proper fenced blocks with their content verbatim

Enter at the end of a title no longer leaves hidden heading formatting behind, and a title turned back into normal text no longer returns after a restart

Applying Note Settings no longer wipes formatting from selected text

Formatting buttons now toggle off anywhere in styled text, and light up accurately for the selection

"Auto" theme now gives light-system users light code blocks and dialog accents

Undo right after opening a note can no longer revert its setup

Dragging a file shortcut inside its own note now moves it instead of leaving a duplicate

Dropping a file onto an existing shortcut no longer breaks that shortcut in two

"Remove Link" no longer deletes the first word of the link's text, and now removes the shortcut's styling along with the link

Renaming a link no longer loses its icon, and a link with mixed formatting inside it no longer comes back mangled

A file name containing < is no longer corrupted, and can no longer be used to disguise a link to somewhere else

Copying a file shortcut no longer pastes a stray box, or a broken image, in front of the name

Text typed after a link no longer arrives as an empty link when pasted into a Markdown editor

Pasting a file over selected text now replaces it, as paste does everywhere else

Dropped images that cannot be read no longer vanish without a trace. You always get a shortcut to the original

Dropping a file the app cannot reach now explains how to grant access, once per drop rather than once per file

Files on Windows network shares work again

Tooltips no longer swallow parts of your own text. A note titled "Fix the &lt;div&gt; parsing bug" showed as "Fix the parsing bug"

The explanation on a read-only note is finally readable. It was being wiped the instant you moved the mouse onto the note

A pinned note no longer offers to rename its title and then refuse

Checkboxes and radio buttons in settings windows have their tick and dot back

Note shortcuts no longer fire while you are renaming a note's title. Ctrl+Shift+V used to paste into the note behind the rename box, and Ctrl+K discarded the rename in progress.

Confirming "Exit Better Stickies?" now actually exits. It previously closed only the hub bar, leaving the app running with no way to reach it

Closing the hub can no longer hide it into a tray that is not there any more

Starting BetterStickies when it is already running now tells you so, and points you at the tray icon

Creating a note with a global shortcut no longer pops the hub open, and the new note takes keyboard focus so you can type immediately

Holding down a global shortcut no longer creates a burst of notes

Global shortcuts that fail to register now say why, such as "already in use by another application" or "needs a modifier such as Ctrl, Alt or Shift"

More keys work as global shortcuts (Space, arrows, Home/End, Page Up/Down, Insert/Delete, Enter, Tab, Esc), and a shortcut with no modifier is refused up front instead of silently discarded

Rebinding a shortcut no longer breaks "Reset to Defaults", and buttons and paste messages now show the shortcut you actually configured

A shortcut switched off in a synced settings file stays off, as does every other saved on/off value, including a note's pinned state, the reminder sound, and snap-to-grid

Notes and the hub no longer vanish after a monitor change, including when only an ungrabbable sliver is left on screen

Resizing a note no longer stops at an invisible wall at a monitor seam or panel edge

KDE: notes no longer clutter the taskbar and Alt+Tab, and no longer depend on a command-line tool that is not part of Plasma

Other Linux desktops (GNOME, XFCE): notes are marked as accessory windows, which window lists conventionally skip

Windows 11: notes and the hub no longer sit inside a gray frame

Windows: notes can be dragged by their edges again, and hovering an inactive note reliably shows its title bar

Windows: notes containing non-ASCII text no longer risk a startup crash

Snap: reminders now actually make a sound

Logging out, or quitting with Ctrl+C, no longer risks losing your last edit

Double-clicking the system tray icon no longer misbehaves

The reminder-creation dialog, the keyboard shortcuts window, the text color button's swatch names and a dozen other strings now actually translate. They had never reached translators at all

The backup-recovery notice speaks your language and follows your theme

Deleting all notes no longer re-triggers first-run onboarding

Trash restore errors are reported accurately instead of guessing at the cause

Nested checklist indentation now scales with the note's font

Always-on-top persists immediately, instead of waiting for some other change to save it

Screenshots from very old deleted notes no longer pile up on disk forever

A damaged or hand-edited notes file can no longer make the app request huge amounts of memory

The license text now ships with the app, readable at the root of the AppImage, next to the app in the Snap, and in the standard system location on Arch

Wayland: the app shows its own icon and groups reliably in the taskbar. AppImage, Snap and native package installs used to fall back to a generic icon

The color picker's screen eyedropper (it does not work under Wayland) and its "Add to Custom Colors" wells, whose job the automatic recent-colors row now does

The Insert Link preview box, which took up a third of the window to show you the text you had just typed

Rich text paste: pasting from emails, web pages, and documents preserves bold, italic, links, lists, and highlights while normalizing fonts and sizes to match your note

Markdown paste: pasting markdown text auto-converts headings, bold, italic, links, task lists, and code blocks into rich formatting

Quick Capture (Ctrl+Alt+V): global shortcut to create a new note pre-filled with whatever's on your clipboard (text, HTML, or screenshots)

Show on all virtual desktops: notes automatically follow you across all desktops on Windows and KDE Plasma, no configuration needed

Redesigned reminders: visual chips, quick presets (30min/1h/3h/Tomorrow 9AM), right-click to edit or remove, and a single grouped notification on launch shows all overdue reminders

Reminder edit flow: new Edit button in the reminders dialog updates the reminder in place without deleting and recreating it

Color-coded bell icon shows reminder status at a glance (green/orange/red); clicking it on a note with an existing reminder shows a management menu instead of the creation presets

Ctrl+R opens the date/time picker directly, faster for keyboard users

Clear Formatting (Ctrl+\): strip all formatting from selected text back to the note's defaults

Sync-safe data storage: notes and reminders now live in a dedicated data/ subfolder you can point Dropbox or OneDrive at without syncing machine-specific config

Skip delete confirmation: optional setting to delete notes without the confirmation dialog

Smart paste toast: brief notification after auto-detected pastes showing what happened and how to undo

Structured logging: rotating log file and --verbose flag for troubleshooting

Rebranded from OpenStickies to BetterStickies: new name, new icon, safe migration of existing config

Hub redesign: dark glass background with drop shadow, high-contrast green text, visible note count shows only unhidden notes

One reminder per note: each note supports exactly one active reminder; existing notes with multiple reminders are automatically migrated

RTL direction is now note-level: toggling RTL switches the entire note at once, matching Windows Sticky Notes and Google Keep behavior

KDE Activities: notes appear on all Plasma Activities automatically (no more per-note assignment menu)

New notes no longer float above all windows by default

Trash keeps up to 300 notes with no time limit (previously 100 notes with 30-day auto-delete)

System tray notification only shows once on first hide instead of every time

Payments now go through Lemon Squeezy, which adds more payment options for people in more countries.

Premium users now get a golden app icon.

The logo has been refreshed to feel more playful and closer to what the app is about.

About dialog redesigned with clean SVG icons for links and a streamlined layout

Faster startup: hidden notes defer content loading until shown

Smoother typing: reduced per-keystroke work for RTL detection and reminder scanning

Live preview sliders: opacity and line spacing update the note in real-time as you drag

Note Settings dialog opens beside the note instead of covering it

Search dialog shows 4 results instead of 3, sorts by last modified, and has a more compact layout

Reminders dialog redesigned as a flat sorted list with colored status dots and sortable columns

HiDPI toolbar icons render at native resolution on high-DPI displays

Deleted notes show content preview on hover in the Trash dialog

Notification sounds now work reliably in Snap and Flatpak sandboxes

Notes now pin correctly to all desktops on KDE Plasma 6.3+ and on non-English locales

Pasting rich text with line breaks no longer lands as one giant paragraph

Pressing Enter after a formatted checkbox line no longer carries bold/link formatting into the new line

Clear Formatting no longer strips links, only visual formatting is removed

Line spacing changes now apply to existing text and persist across restarts

Closing a note from the taskbar no longer makes it disappear. It hides properly

App no longer hangs on exit under GNOME/Wayland

Code blocks update colors correctly when switching themes

Restarting after a crash reclaims the D-Bus service without needing a reboot

Wayland app identity fixed: taskbar icons, Alt+Tab grouping, and compositor rules now work regardless of how the app is launched

"Modified" timestamp no longer updates from hide/show, drag, or pin actions. Only real edits count

RTL notes now restore their direction correctly when loaded from a hidden state

Clearing all text in an auto-detected RTL note resets direction back to LTR for the next input

Settings dialog no longer truncates labels at standard DPI or with longer translations

Pasting into existing code blocks no longer creates extra line spacing gaps

Hub window now shrinks correctly after hidden notes are removed

Audio backend crash fixed on systems using Qt 6.11+ with the FFmpeg multimedia backend

Object replacement characters (U+FFFC) no longer appear in note titles, search results, or exports

Per-note "Show on All Desktops" toggle: notes always appear on all desktops now; the opt-out has been removed

"Reset All Defaults" button from the Settings dialog

Inline image display: pasted and dropped images render directly in notes with resize options (Full, Medium, Small) and WebP compression

Collapse notes to header-only view to save screen space. Use the new arrow toggle in the header, works with pinned notes

Editable note titles: double-click the header to rename notes with custom titles separate from content

Nested todo checklists with Tab/Shift+Tab indentation, word wrapping, and multi-line selection support

Full input method (IME) support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian languages on Linux (fcitx5/ibus, Wayland) and Windows

Official Snap Store packaging for easy installation on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions

Semi-transparent pill background for header icons to improve visibility against varied note colors

Completely restyled Trash dialog with theme-aware borders, backgrounds, and hover effects

Dedicated Remove Link action in the context menu for easier link management

Improved code block auto-detection accuracy with enhanced heuristics for YAML and SQL patterns

Dramatically improved performance when showing or hiding large numbers of notes (30+) using batched processing

Completed missing translations for shortcuts, help dialog, and settings strings across all languages

Backspace on empty code block now properly clears formatting instead of getting stuck

Formatting toggles (bold, italic, strikethrough) now work reliably when selecting entire lines

Closing a note from the taskbar or window manager no longer causes it to disappear. The note now hides properly and remains managed by the hub's hide/show logic

Fixed font family sync when moving cursor between code blocks and regular text

Fixed color palette selections not applying correctly in packaged builds

Code blocks with theme-aware styling: pasted code is auto-detected for Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, shell scripts, and more

Toggle code formatting on any selection with Ctrl+M. Works to add or remove code blocks instantly

Customizable keyboard shortcuts: remap system-wide hotkeys and in-app shortcuts with smart conflict detection

Redesigned search dialog with hover previews, relative dates, and sortable columns

Redesigned Notes Hub with modern SVG icons, cleaner layout, and improved reminder badge visibility

Remove Link option in right-click menu: strip hyperlinks while keeping the text

Links copied from web pages now preserve their original URLs when pasting

Automatic dark/light theme switching based on your system preferences

KDE Plasma integration: notes opened from search automatically switch to their assigned Activity

Modernized UI across all dialogs and windows with consistent styling and better visual hierarchy

Settings dialog reorganized with tab-based navigation and 720p display support

100% translation coverage across all 11 supported languages

AppImage size reduced by 35% (75 MB vs 115 MB) with wider Linux distribution compatibility

GNOME desktop support: app now launches and runs properly without a system tray extension

Smoother undo/redo: paste operations now undo in a single step

Improved undo/redo behavior when working with checkboxes and todo lists

Helpful error messages when required Qt libraries are missing on Linux

Faster startup: license dialogs now appear at the right time

Paste anything: text, links, screenshots, files, folders, and images all in one place

Always on top: keep notes visible above all windows while you work

Rich text formatting: titles, todo lists, links, strikethrough, and text highlights

Desktop reminders with sound alerts and system notifications

Custom backgrounds: personalize notes with images and animated GIFs

Snap to grid for clean, organized note arrangements on your desktop

Pin notes to prevent accidental moves or edits while keeping them visible

Drag, resize, and position notes freely across multiple monitors

Search and restore: find any note instantly and recover deleted notes from trash

Bidirectional file shortcuts: drag files into notes or out to file managers with 70+ file type icons

Link hover tooltips: see a styled URL preview with theme-aware styling

Rename link display text while preserving the underlying URL via context menu

Per-note timer for tracking time spent on tasks

Export notes to JSON: your data stays yours, no vendor lock-in

Hide notes to declutter your workspace without deleting them

Hover preview for pasted images and PDFs: quick peek without opening

Right-to-left language support with automatic detection for Arabic, Hebrew, and more

Fully portable: no installation needed, download and run instantly

Cross-platform: works on Windows and Linux with a consistent experience

Complete offline support: fully functional without internet for total privacy

KDE Activities integration for organizing notes across Linux workspaces

Live settings preview: background opacity changes preview in real-time as you adjust the slider

Context-aware link actions: right-click shows relevant options based on link type (file, folder, or web URL)