What’s New in Hirsla

On your Mac, and a new way to write.

Coming in November 2026

Version 1.2 brings Hirsla to the Mac, and on every device you now write a note right where you read it.

Hirsla on the Mac

The same app from the same App Store listing, with the same library through your own iCloud. Room bought on one device counts on all of them, and packs can be bought on the Mac too.

• With Apple Intelligence, the Mac reads the cards it keeps and answers your questions, all on the device
• Control-Command-V keeps what you copied in any app as a card, with Undo; passwords are never kept
• Control-Command-H opens the Hirsla panel over any app, to find, to ask and get an answer with numbered sources, or to keep a note
• Drag anything to the edge of the screen opposite the Dock, and a Hirsla box keeps a copy while the original stays where it was
• A menu bar icon to ask, keep what is on the clipboard, open the last five cards kept, or start a note or a recording
• Your cards in Spotlight, with a switch to turn it off
• A sidebar with All, Pinned, the map, every card type, and Recently deleted
• Any card in a window of its own, and Keep on Top to float it over every app
• Swipe a row with two fingers on the trackpad: left to pin, right for Share and Delete
• Settings in a window of its own, and every key in Help, under Keyboard Shortcuts

Write where you read

Tap or click into a note to write in it. Markdown turns into its format as you type: headings, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, lists, checklists, quotes, tables, and dividers. Lists and tables carry on when you press Return, Tab moves between table cells, and the note is still kept as plain Markdown. Every device has its format keys: a bar above the keyboard on iPhone, the shortcut bar on iPad, and a format bar over a selection and a Format menu on the Mac. Type a slash for the block menu. Settings, under Writing, lists what to type.

Focus shows the note on its own in one readable column, with only the line you are in dark, and opens where your cursor was. On iPhone and iPad the line you type stays at one height, like a typewriter.

Faster sync

A note goes to your iCloud once you pause typing for a moment, so your other devices are not flooded with every keystroke. An original that could not upload is tried again by itself, and Settings shows “Sending…”, “Waits for internet”, and when this device last sent and received changes.

And more

• What’s New in Settings, and in the Help menu on the Mac
• The Mac app has its own icon
• Many smaller fixes

Drawing, the camera and scanner, the widgets, the Apple Watch app, and noting where you saved something are not on the Mac. Sample cards, not real data.