Take notes. Organize files. Collect research. Brainstorm in mind maps. Track tasks with to-do lists or Kanban stacks. Drop in an equation. Sketch out an idea. Get more productive! Curio’s intuitive, freeform notebook environment provides all the integrated tools you need to be more productive and focus on getting things done.
Curio 28 runs on macOS Monterey 12 through macOS Sonoma 14 on Apple silicon or Intel.
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An excellent way to get started with Curio, perfect for smaller projects containing no more than 5 idea spaces.
Kickstart your productivity with an amazing collection of features and functionality with projects unlimited in size.
Standard renewal $59.99 ($49.99 edu).
Our flagship and most popular offering with advanced features for power-users and productivity gurus.
Professional renewal $79.99 ($59.99 edu).
Includes 2 week free trial with all Pro features enabled.
Licenses include 1 year of free major updates.
Subscriptions include 2 week trial.
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Curio Traditional Licenses
Download Curio from our website and begin your 2 week trial with all Professional features enabled. Once the trial expires, if you decide not to purchase a license, you can continue to use Curio with the Standard feature set to explore the bundled Welcome to Curio project and to create and edit your own projects each with up to 5 idea spaces. Larger projects are opened read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing.
When you’re ready for more, you can purchase a Standard or Professional license key to enable the appropriate functionality, which includes a year of free major updates. At the end of this period your Curio app continues working normally — it does not expire or deactivate — however, you will no longer receive app updates. Whenever you wish, you can purchase a license renewal to extend your license with another year of free updates.
See our Curio Traditional License FAQ for more details.
Curio Subscriptions
Download Curio from Mac App Store and you can use Curio without an active subscription with the Standard feature set to explore the Welcome to Curio project and to create and edit your own projects each with up to 5 idea spaces. Larger projects are opened read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing.
When you’re ready to dive in and create larger projects or work with Professional’s features, start a 2 week free trial by subscribing to a Standard or Professional monthly or yearly plan from within Curio, which instantly unlocks the appropriate features. If you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial period you won’t be charged for using Curio. You can manage and cancel your subscription by going to your account settings on the Mac App Store any time after purchase.
See our Curio Subscriptions FAQ for more details.
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Notebook Environment | |||
Project notebook environment with intuitive freeform idea spaces. | |||
Maximum number of idea spaces per project notebook. | 5 max | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Rich text figures with support for bundled and custom figure styles. | |||
Embedded and aliased files, images, PDF’s, audio, videos, Mail messages, web links, web preview cards, and live web views. | |||
Markdown rendering with rich text, emoji, images, lists, block quotes, and code blocks. | |||
Interconnected wikilinks and backlinks, plus markdown links, jump actions, jump anchors, idea space link figures, and hyperlinks. | |||
Custom idea space templates and figure stencils plus a handy Stencils shelf. | |||
Hierarchical Organizer sections for independent divisions in larger projects. | |||
Integrated Journal for a project diary, meeting notes, or class notes. | |||
Follow Figures and Bundle Figures for lightweight figure groupings. | |||
Automatic project backups for peace of mind. | |||
Bundled appearance themes to change the look of your Curio interface. | |||
Custom app icons for sustainers to enjoy. | |||
Collections | |||
Mind mapping with left, right, top-down, and org chart arrangements; branch boundary shading; relationship lines; date calculations. | |||
Lists from simple to-do’s to complex hierarchical lists, numbered or bulleted, checkboxes, level styles, date calculations. | |||
Albums of photos or documents, such as PDFs, with optional captions. | |||
Index cards for organizing your notes. | |||
Tables with headers and footers. | |||
Pinboards for freeform groupings. | |||
Stacks for Kanban-style task tracking. | |||
Table of Contents list or mind map. | |||
Focus mode to help you concentrate on specific figures or branches. | |||
Meta | |||
Figure meta including checkmarks; percent complete; local project tags, cross project tags, and nested tag sets; start, due, duration, done, plus smart date calculations; priorities; ratings; resources; notes; custom click actions. | |||
Inline #tags and @resources. | |||
Organizer meta flags column. | |||
Status bar to view and edit figure meta data. | |||
Search and Quick Find to quickly find and jump to idea spaces and figures with simple or complex queries including regular expressions and boolean logic. | |||
Query-based Organizer Filters, dynamic Smart Filters, and Pinned Organizer Items. | |||
Multimedia and PDFs | |||
Create and embed audio and video recordings. | |||
Embed YouTube and Vimeo videos. | |||
Resample image to optimize format, compression, dimensions, and/or DPI. | |||
Brush and pen sketching with support for iPad+Apple Pencil via Sidecar. | |||
Integrated equation editor for LaTeX, AsciiMath, or MathML rendering. | |||
Spread PDF to spread the pages of a PDF across multiple idea spaces for inline annotations and note-taking alongside the PDF page. | |||
Flowcharting | |||
36 flowcharting shapes for idea graphs, diagrams, and prototyping. | |||
Sticky lines with several arrowhead styles; straight, curved, or orthogonal. | |||
Research | |||
Sleuth window and Sleuth sidebar shelf for integrated Internet research, including ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and Perplexity AI. | |||
Import / Export | |||
Import/export as text, image, PDF, HTML, CSV, OPML, and 3rd party mind map formats. | |||
Extensive markdown export and import. | |||
PDF Mirror live export of your project as a PDF to any specified location, including synced cloud services. | |||
PDF Table of Contents in exports. | |||
Sync tasks to Calendar & Reminders. | |||
Local library shelf to easily list, find, preview, open, and drag in files anywhere on your Mac or within custom scope folders, including support for DEVONthink items. | |||
Evernote integration for quick access to your notes in the cloud. | |||
TaskPaper import and export and OmniOutliner Pro OPML import. | |||
Works with Curiota: our free, always available menu bar app for quickly jotting down ideas, taking notes, or collecting files when inspiration strikes. | |||
Power User Functionality | |||
Synced figure instances where one or more copies of figures can share content and meta (transclusion) across an entire project. | |||
File-backed text figures display the content of embedded or aliased rich text or markdown files, located anywhere on disk, as editable text figures. | |||
Figure layers allow for more flexible layouts and arrangements. | |||
Cross references, with custom types like Agree and Evidence, can be created between figures, idea spaces, and web locations for more organized research. | |||
Status shelf for easy cross-project task tracking at a glance. | |||
Query-based collections allow you to create list, mind map, or stack collections that contain the dynamic results of a query, like due<2w or #active . |
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Master figure styles & stencils, master idea space styles & templates, and master markdown styles for dynamic updates throughout a project. | |||
Presentation mode for group brainstorming sessions, plus Present in Window for remote window sharing. | |||
Custom figure data allows custom keys and formatted values to be associated with your project figures and available for search queries. | |||
Custom variables for use throughout your project for dynamic text replacements. | |||
Custom sharing actions to export data to other apps via 3rd party app URL schemes. | |||
Custom appearance themes to fine-tune the look of your Curio interface. | |||
Custom project backup settings. | |||
External project library to support Spotlight searching of project assets. | |||
External repositories for sharing styles, stencils, and templates with colleagues. | |||
Project password for project security. |
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Hookmark includes support for creating bidirectional links with Curio items.
Within Curio, browse, search, and drag in your notes directly from the cloud.
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Of course Curio supports Curiota, our free note and file collector.
Curiota is our free, out of the way yet always available menu bar app that allows you to quickly jot down ideas, take notes, or collect files when inspiration strikes.
You can also send text or files into Curiota via macOS Services, the macOS Share button, the print dialog’s Save PDF to Curiota option, a browser bookmarklet, and even AppleScript.
While Curiota can be used even if you don’t own Curio, when combined with Curio you have a powerhouse combination since Curiota helps you collect notes and files outside of Curio. Then, when you’re back in Curio, you can view, search, and access all your collected Curiota information directly using Curio’s Library.