Rasc for Mac

A scratchpad for unfinished thoughts.

Capture a thought before you know what it should become. Refine it without a prompt. Keep what matters, then move on.

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Native Mac app · No account · Local by default

Refine requires Apple Intelligence. The rest of Rasc does not.

The Rasc scratchpad open over the desktop, with an unfinished thought in the editor.

Not every thought is a note yet.

Ideas arrive half-formed. A message you might send. Something you need to remember. A task that may become important. A sentence that still isn’t right.

They’re worth capturing, but not worth organizing yet.

Rasc gives unfinished thoughts somewhere to exist before you decide what they should become.

Capture

Write before you organize.

Press ⌥\ from anywhere. Rasc appears ready for whatever is on your mind.

No title, folder, or destination required.

Scratchpad with an unfinished thought, before Refine.

Refine

Shape it without prompting.

When the wording needs work, press ⌘J.

Rasc refines the text on-device and shows you the result before anything changes.

No prompt. No tool picker. No AI chat.

Refine preview in Rasc, with the proposed wording still waiting for Accept or Cancel.

Keep

Settle it and move on.

When the thought feels finished, Keep it.

Rasc gets out of the way, the thought stays retrievable, and your next scratch starts fresh.

Capture → Refine → Keep. Nothing to organize up front.

A scratchpad, not another system.

No folders to set up. No prompt to write. No account to maintain.

And no need to decide where a thought belongs before you’ve even finished thinking it.

Pick it up later.

Unfinished or kept, your thoughts stay easy to recover.

Open Home or Search when you need one again — without turning Rasc into a system you have to maintain.

The Rasc Home window, with search and New Scratch. This capture is the empty Home, before any notes.

Your thoughts stay on your Mac.

Notes are stored locally. Refine runs with Apple Foundation Models on-device. No account. No cloud AI.

Native macOS

Built as a real Mac app.

On-device Refine

Refine uses Apple Foundation Models locally.

No account

Install and use Rasc without creating an account.

Apple Intelligence is required for Refine only. Capture, Keep, Home, Search and the rest of Rasc remain available without it.

Give unfinished thoughts somewhere to land.

Capture them before they become notes. Shape them when they need it. Keep only what matters.

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Native Mac app · No account · Local by default