Apple Silicon · macOS 26+ · free to start
Get Hippo for Mac.
A native menu-bar app that runs quietly in the background — summoned with a keystroke, never in your way. Free to start, no credit card.
Apple-notarized & signed · encrypted on your Mac — we can't read your brain
Requirements
Apple Silicon · macOS 26+
Built natively for Apple Silicon, using on-device intelligence. macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. The compile model never leaves your machine.
Footprint
A menu-bar app, not a window
Hippo lives in your menu bar — one click opens the floating Brief bar over any app, then it gets out of the way. (Prefer no Dock icon? Flip it off in Settings.)
Free
Start with one project
The Free plan is genuinely useful and genuinely private — one project, Context Packets, on one Mac. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited projects whenever you're ready — sync is arriving soon.
Installs in seconds
Unzip, drag to Applications, done.
Apple-notarized and signed, so it opens with no Gatekeeper warnings. Updates arrive quietly in-app — no reinstalling.