Velin

Your thinking, beautifully.

An editor for your local files. Markdown notes, sheets, canvases, boards and more.

A note in Velin with Starry Night Over the Rhône behind it.
Starry Night Over the Rhône, Vincent van Gogh

Early alpha, out now for Mac

Download

Download for Mac

Alpha · macOS, Apple silicon

Or from the command line

Read the changelog
Codex Atlanticus, f. 858r, Leonardo da Vinci

Notes as plain Markdown files

A note with headings, a table, a callout and a footnote. A note linking to other notes, with a section of another note embedded. A weekly note with goals, habits and a log. A note with a diagram in two groups, a code block and an image.
View of Delft, Johannes Vermeer

Data, easy to read

A CSV file of orders as a table. The same CSV file as plain text. A JSON order as a tree. The same JSON file as text. A YAML file as a tree, opened all the way. The same YAML file as text. A TOML file as a tree. The same TOML file as text. The Velin mark as an SVG. The same SVG file as markup.
The Fighting Temeraire, J. M. W. Turner

Boards, sheets and more, as plain JSON

A board whose cards are notes. The same file as plain JSON. A sheet with formulas. The same file as plain JSON. A canvas of notes. The same file as plain JSON. Habits ticked day by day. The same file as plain JSON.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai

Keeps up with your thinking

Quick however large your space grows, light on memory, and easy on your battery.

  • 6.4ms

    From a key press to the letter on screen.

  • 13ms

    To search every note in the space.

  • 0.2s

    From launch to your space on screen.

  • 16ms

    To open a table of 100,000 rows.

  • 123MB

    Of memory with the whole space open.

  • 0.9mW

    Of power at rest.

All benchmarks

Make it yours

Change every part of how it looks. Pick a theme, adjust it, or build your own.

Set it up your way

  • Modular features

    Turn off any part you don’t need.

  • Settings in plain files

    Every setting lives in a plain text file you can edit.

  • Your shortcuts

    Set your own shortcut for any command.

  • Vim

    Built in, one switch away.

Ready for your AI

Anything you can do in Velin, an agent can do too. And it sees the window just as you do.

  • Built-in chat

    Ask from inside Velin. It works with the same commands you do, right beside your notes.

  • MCP

    Connect any agent and it can work in your space.

  • Command line

    Run any command in the open app, from a terminal or a script.

  • Plain files

    Notes, boards and sheets are Markdown and JSON. An agent can read and edit them directly.