Curio 26
The most advanced notebook application for note-taking and research.
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.
Traditional licenses include one full year of free major updates!
Curio 26 runs on macOS 11 Big Sur through macOS 13 Ventura on Apple silicon or Intel.
What can Curio do for you?
In Curio, create a project to represent a real-world project that you’re working on. Next fill it with everything related to that project including notes, images, PDF’s, documents, web links, multimedia, and much, much more.
You can place this information anywhere on Curio’s freeform idea spaces. Or use Curio’s integrated mind maps, lists, tables, index cards, albums, pinboards, and Kanban-style stacks to organize your data into powerful collections.
Anything placed into Curio can be associated with meta data such as tags, flags, checkboxes, priorities, ratings, resources, and start/due dates and durations for easy searching and task management.
And your project can include a daily journal for meetings or class notes, all neatly organized and sorted automatically.
The key point is that everything related to your project is stored, managed, and tracked within a single project file using a single, well-integrated application. You’re not juggling a mess of files scattered about your hard disk with a disparate suite of apps.
We invite you to join the thousands of customers around the world who use Curio for information gathering, brainstorming, and creative exploration.
Available as a traditional license or a low-cost subscription, begin your free, 2-week trial with our Welcome to Curio guided tour to learn how you can be more productive with Curio.
Our Development Process
With Curio you have an extraordinarily close connection to its development and support, completely unlike dealing with many Mega Corps out there.
In most cases feedback and new feature requests are quickly incorporated in upcoming releases, and many support incidents are answered within hours.
This tighter feedback loop and rapid development cycle, with major releases appearing every few months, allows us to quickly react to customer requests, market trends, and competition.
Traditional licenses include one full year of free major updates so license holders and subscribers will enjoy a continuous stream of major productivity features and enhancements!
Who Can Use Curio?
With thousands of customers we have an incredibly diverse audience.
Writers brainstorm plot and character development Students take notes, annotate handouts, and collect research Parents organize the next family vacation Scientists gather lab data results and images Web Developers collect ideas and create site prototypes Videographers plan shots and scenes Teachers demonstrate how to collect notes, images, and videos Product Managers gather competitor images, features, and notes Gardeners lay out the spring garden Project Leads track tasks, timelines, and feature checklists Programmers plan new product features, sketch prototypes, and track competitors Lawyers gather information, organize ideas and prepare cases Entrepreneurs mind map ideas and plan new companies Musicians develop song lyrics and collect inspirations Professors create and present lesson plans and assignments
What will you do with Curio?
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Curio Standard or Professional. Traditional license or subscription.
Curio Standard. Kickstart your productivity.
- Freeform notebook environment.
- Rich text figures with support for bundled and personal figure styles.
- Embedded and aliased files, images, PDF’s, audio, videos, Mail messages, web links, and web views.
- Mind mapping with styles, arrangements, boundaries, date roll-ups.
- Lists from simple styled to complex hierarchical lists, numbered or bulleted.
- Albums of photos or documents, such as PDFs, with optional captions.
- Index cards for organizing ideas.
- Tables with headers and footers.
- Pinboards for freeform groupings.
- Stacks for Kanban-style task tracking.
- 36 flowcharting shapes for idea graphs, diagrams, and prototyping.
- Sticky lines with arrowhead styles; straight, curved, or orthogonal.
- Record audio and video notes, insert YouTube/Vimeo videos.
- Follow and Bundle Figures for lightweight grouping of figures.
- Markdown rendering plus extensive markdown import and export.
- Sleuth window and Sleuth sidebar shelf for integrated Internet research, including ChatGPT and Bard AI.
- Idea space templates and figure stencils plus Stencils shelf for quick access.
- Figure meta including checkmarks; percent complete; tags; start, due, duration, done, plus smart date calculations; priorities; ratings; resources; notes; plus custom click actions.
- Inline #tags and @resources.
- Status bar to view/edit figure meta data.
- Search and Quick Find to quickly find and jump to idea spaces and figures with simple or sophisticated queries.
- Resample image to optimize format, compression, dimensions, and/or DPI.
- Brush and pen sketching with support for iPad+Apple Pencil via Sidecar.
- Import/Export as text, image, PDF, HTML, CSV, OPML, and popular 3rd party mind map formats.
- Organizer sections for independent divisions in larger projects.
- Journal templates and section for auto-sorted daily meetings or classes.
- Integrated equation editor for LaTeX, AsciiMath, or MathML rendering.
- Spread PDF to spread the pages of a PDF across multiple idea spaces.
- PDF Mirror live export of your project.
- PDF Table of Contents in exports.
- Table of Contents list or mind map.
- Sync tasks to Calendar & Reminders.
- Focus mode to help you concentrate on specific figures or branches.
- Bundled appearance themes to change the look of your Curio interface.
- Evernote integration for quick access to your notes in the cloud.
- TaskPaper import and export and OmniOutliner Pro OPML import.
- Automatic project backups.
- Custom app icons, a fun new perk for sustainers to enjoy.
Curio Standard Traditional License See our FAQ ›
Curio Standard Subscription See our FAQ ›
Curio Professional. Get supercharged.
- Synced figure instances where copies of figures across a project share content and meta (transclusion).
- File-backed text figures display the content of embedded or aliased rich text or markdown files as 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. - 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.
- Custom variables for use throughout your projects.
- Custom sharing actions to export to other apps via 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.
Curio Pro Traditional License See our FAQ ›
Curio Pro Subscription See our FAQ ›
Discounts on new licenses are available for qualifying staff, faculty, and students of accredited educational organizations.
If the email address you enter below is a school-issued email address, such as one with .edu, .k12, or other domain, we may be able to instantly qualify you for academic pricing when you press Continue.
👉 Your new license will be issued to this email address!
Otherwise, please upload your proof of academic eligibility, issued by the institution with your name and institution name, dated within the past 12 months.
Examples: a school ID card, report card, transcript, tuition bill or statement. PDF, JPG, HEIC, or PNG. Max 2MB.
Questions or need a pre-validation code instead?
Enter your current license information to see your discounted license renewal and crossgrade options. License renewals include one full year of free major updates!
If upgrading from an old purchase of Curio 7 Core or Curio 11 Express from the Mac App Store then follow these instructions.
Find your current license key via the Curio > License menu item. (Or we can send it to you.)
👉 Your new license will be issued to this same email address! (Email changed?)
▸ Student or teacher? Click here to enter your credentials for an academic discount.
▾ Never mind, please dismiss the academic questions.
If the registered email address you entered above is a school-issued email address, such as one with .edu, .k12, or other domain, we may be able to instantly qualify you for academic pricing when you press Continue.
Otherwise, please upload your proof of academic eligibility, issued by the institution with your name and institution name, dated within the past 12 months.
Examples: a school ID card, report card, transcript, tuition bill or statement. PDF, JPG, HEIC, or PNG. Max 2MB.
Questions or need a pre-validation code instead?
Download Curio
Try Curio for 2 weeks free!
Our Welcome to Curio project gives you a tour of all of Curio’s features.
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Download Curio from Zengobi
Curio downloaded from the Zengobi website only works with traditional license keys, not Apple’s subscriptions.
Curio 26 runs on macOS 11 Big Sur through macOS 13 Ventura on Apple silicon or Intel.
Release Notes - Documentation (PDF) - License Agreement - Terms of Use - Privacy Policy - Use the Finder to drag Curio from your browser’s Downloads folder to your Applications folder to install.
- Launch Curio to begin your 2 week free trial with all Professional features fully enabled and available.
- Our bundled Welcome to Curio guided tour will automatically open showcasing Curio’s big features.
- Purchase and enter a Professional or Standard license key based on the features you need and Curio’s interface will dynamically change to reflect that edition’s features. You can even start with one edition then move up to a more feature-rich edition by purchasing a crossgrade upgrade license.
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. At any time you can still purchase and enter a license key to enable functionality once again. Friends and colleagues that don’t own Curio can take advantage of this read-only functionality to view projects you share with them.
👉 See our Curio Traditional Licenses FAQ for more details.
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Download Curio from the Mac App Store
Curio downloaded from the Mac App Store only works with Apple’s subscriptions, not license keys.
Curio 26 runs on macOS 11 Big Sur through macOS 13 Ventura on Apple silicon or Intel.
Release Notes - Documentation (PDF) - License Agreement - Terms of Use - Privacy Policy - Launch Curio and our bundled Welcome to Curio guided tour will automatically open showcasing Curio’s big features.
- Without a subscription you can use Curio 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.
- Then, 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.
If the trial expires or a subscription is inactive, 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. At any time you can still purchase a subscription to enable functionality once again. Friends and colleagues that don’t own Curio can take advantage of this read-only functionality to view projects you share with them.
👉 See our Curio Subscriptions FAQ for more details.
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Integrations
Curio works with your favorite productivity apps, plus many more!
DEVONthink
Search your DEVONthink notes and files from within Curio.
Hookmark
Hookmark includes support for creating bidirectional links with Curio items.
Evernote
Within Curio, browse, search, and drag in your notes directly from the cloud.
Calendar & Reminders
Sync your Curio tasks with macOS Calendar & Reminders.
iThoughts
Import and export mind maps with this cross-platform app.
TaskPaper
Import and export tasks with support for special TaskPaper tags.
Curiota
Of course Curio supports Curiota, our free note and file collector.
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Meet Curiota!
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.
