

QtPad is a modern and highly customizable sticky note program Xpad is a sticky note application for jotting down things to remember. KNotes is another good example of software to write sticky notes. It is mature software, with a good feature set, yet remains lightweight. This software lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, reminders, personal journals, and things you need to remember. GloboNote is a simple and easy to use note taking application.

Sticky is a Python and GTK3-based tool that’s our pick of the bunch.

We recommend the best free and open source alternatives. Stickies is proprietary software and not available for Linux. This software is not available for Linux and there’s no prospect of that position changing.Īpple Stickies is a small utility that lets users keep notes, lists and pictures in sticky notes on the desktop. There’s a whole raft of proprietary applications that are developed by Apple for their operating software. Its interface, known as Aqua, is highly polished and built on top of a BSD derivative (Darwin).

Mac OS X is Apple’s proprietary operating system for its line of Macintosh computers. Apple also operates the Apple Music and Apple TV media distribution platforms. This gives them the power to make an operating system and suite of apps that are tailor-made and optimized for their hardware. The company designs its own hardware and software. Over the years key successes include the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and the MacBook Air. Apple make great looking (albeit expensive) hardware. There are many things to admire about Apple’s hardware and software. Their dominance is so broad they account for more than 20% of the S&P 500. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google’s parent), Amazon and Facebook dominate the tech landscape.
