Open.
Type.
Close.
Free forever. No card. $10/year unlocks all three pads, every theme, and export.
Less to manage.
More to say.
Name your three scratchpads anything — Work, Personal, Scratch, or whatever fits today. Then stop thinking about it. Everything is one keystroke away. Nothing gets lost. There's nowhere for it to go.
When you can't create infinite folders, you write instead of organizing. Constraint isn't a compromise. It's the product.
What's inside
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Focus
No filing decisions
Three named pads, nothing to sort. No folders, no tags, no "where does this go?" — you open a pad and write. The whole system fits in your head.
Reliability
Works offline. Actually.
Your notes load instantly with no connection. Sync happens in the background when you're online. If our servers are down, you don't notice.
Portability
Plain text, always
No proprietary format. Export as .md, .txt, or .html at any time. Your notes will be readable in 20 years on any device.
Craft
Eight themes, each with its own font
Every theme ships with a matched font — not just a color change. Focus Mono, Rosé Pine, Gruvbox, and five more.
Continuity
Sync across your devices
Changes sync the moment you're online. Native iOS and Android apps, plus the web — your scratchpads open everywhere.
Restraint
Nothing to configure.
No integrations to set up. No AI to prompt. No templates to pick — start blank and let the slash menu add structure only when you want it. Just a good editor and nothing else.
Switching?
Coming from another app?
See exactly how Benchpad compares — the honest version, including where the other tool wins.
One plan. Or none.
Less than a coffee a month. More than it sounds.
Free
- 1 scratchpad
- Full block editor
- Up to 2 devices
- Focus theme
- Works 100% offline
- iOS, Android & web apps
Pro
- 3 scratchpads
- Voice notes & attachments
- Up to 5 devices
- All 8 themes
- Image attachments
- Export (md, txt, html)
- Real-time sync
- Works 100% offline
- iOS, Android & web apps
Why we charge — no ads, no data mining, servers stay up.
On every platform
Get Benchpad everywhere.
Native apps for iPhone and Android — fully offline, your scratchpads everywhere. Or just open it in the browser.
Quick Capture
A menubar app for Mac & Windows — summon a scratchpad from anywhere, jot, and it's already in sync.
Managed Windows install? Get the .msi.
Learn more about the menu bar app.
Questions
Because free products need to monetize somehow — usually your data or attention. We'd rather you just pay us $10 and we leave you alone.
Three is the constraint by design. If you're hitting the ceiling, you're likely tracking projects or managing team work — which belongs in a proper project management tool, not a scratchpad. Most people who think they need more find they need to clean out what's already there.
Yes. Your scratchpads are stored locally in your browser so they load instantly with no connection. Changes you make offline sync to the server automatically once you're back online.
Benchpad has native apps on the App Store (iPhone & iPad) and Google Play (Android), plus any modern desktop or mobile browser. Your scratchpads sync across all of them.
Get the app →Of course. Export as Markdown, plain text, or HTML anytime. No lock-in, no proprietary formats. Your notes are yours.
Yes. The free tier gives you 1 scratchpad, the full block editor, and 2 signed-in devices — forever, no credit card required. Upgrade to Pro for 3 scratchpads, up to 5 devices, all themes, image attachments, voice notes, and data export.