carry-demo.mp4

Carry

Export your Apple Notes to Markdown, Obsidian, or Notion — cleanly, on your Mac. No account, no tracking, no server. Your notes stay on your Mac.

Download

Get the latest Carry.app from the Releases page.

Requires macOS 15 or later (Apple Silicon or Intel).

Install (first launch)

Carry is distributed directly (not via the Mac App Store) and is not yet notarized, so macOS Gatekeeper asks you to approve it once:

1. Download and unzip Carry, drag it to Applications.
2. Open it. macOS says it can't verify the developer — that's expected for a direct download.
3. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway, then authenticate.
4. On the first scan, macOS asks to let Carry control Notes — click OK. (This is the Automation permission; Carry reads your library locally.)

What it does

• Clean Markdown export — HTML→Markdown bodies, per-note attachment folders, preserved dates and folder hierarchy.
• Three destinations — plain Markdown, an Obsidian vault, or a Notion-import ZIP.
• Folder filter — export your whole library or just the folders you pick.
• Verification report — an honest account of anything that didn't come through (locked notes, unreadable attachments).
• Duplicate detection — flags likely-duplicate notes, on-device.
• Optional AI title cleanup — rephrase weak titles via Claude using your own Anthropic API key (off by default, opt-in, you review before applying). See PRIVACY.md.

Privacy

Your notes never leave your Mac unless you explicitly opt in to AI title rephrasing. No analytics, no accounts. Full policy: PRIVACY.md.

Building from source

swift build            # engine + apps
swift test             # 92 tests
./Packaging/make-app.sh   # assemble dist/Carry.app (CLT only, ad-hoc signed)

There is also a CLI (notes-exporter): scan, preview, export <dir> [obsidian|notion] [--underscore-attachments], dupes, enrich [--estimate], demo.