Your team's to-do list, on a sticky note.

put the team's tickets on a sticky note

The note stays on top of whatever you're working in and shows two lists: tickets assigned to you, and your own odds and ends. Tick one off and your team sees it. The menu behind ☰ opens the board: columns you drag cards between, filters, comments, and the full history of each ticket. You can start a timer on a ticket or clock in for the day from the tray, too.

let everyone else ask for things

Sales, finance, ops and HR need things from the dev team too, but they shouldn't have to learn a ticket tracker. They get a requests portal in the browser instead. They pick what they need (new software, a feature, a bug fix or some help), add a screenshot, and follow it from submitted to shipped. The progress bar moves on its own as the linked tickets move, so nobody has to send "any news?" emails. Colleagues can vote and comment.

For bigger asks there are projects: a proposal, requirements both sides sign off, a timeline the team can actually hit, then milestones and user acceptance testing at the end.

People who only ask for things never take a paid seat, on any plan.

keep working when the wifi doesn't

Every change saves to your own computer first, time entries included. On a train, in a basement or during an outage, you keep moving cards and ticking things off. When you're back online it syncs on its own. You won't hit an "offline" error or lose an edit.

1. ● liveyou're online
2. offline · 3 pendingyou keep working
3. ● liveeverything catches up

Working alone? Pick "Use offline" at sign-in to get a personal board with no server and no account.

hook it up to the code

Put a ticket key like APP-12 in a branch name, a commit or a pull request, and GooseNotes links the work to the ticket. Write "Closes APP-12" and merging the pull request moves the ticket along the board for you. It works with GitHub, Forgejo and Gitea, any plain git server through a hook, and Jenkins for build status.

git commit -m "APP-12 wrap long lines"

Business users see a plain-language version in the portal: a few commits in, pull request merged, last build passed.

show the boss who finished what

Everything that happens to a ticket is recorded. Managers get reports on what got finished each day, how long work takes once it's started, and who's carrying what. They open on the desktop or in any browser. Misc to-dos only show up there if you choose to log them.

If you want it, there's time tracking too: clock in and out, timers on tickets, time off, and a capacity view that shows how many hours the team really has free. Timesheets export to CSV, or to a file you can import into ADP payroll.

get it onto every computer

A small native app for macOS and Windows that lives in your tray. Download it, click "Use offline", and you're using it in under a minute.

macOS Windows Linux coming soon

Also: Windows .msi · checksums. macOS builds are for Apple silicon (M1 and newer).

On Linux? The desktop app for Linux is coming soon. Until then, the GooseNotes server runs on Linux today, and the requests portal and admin dashboard work in any browser.

If Windows or macOS warns you the first time, the build isn't code-signed yet. On Windows, click More info → Run anyway. On a Mac, right-click the app and choose Open.

For a team, run the server. It's one file for Windows, macOS or Linux (ARM included), with the portal and admin dashboard built in and everything stored in a single database file. You don't need Node, a database server or Docker.

tar xzf goosenote-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
ADMIN_EMAIL=you@company.com ADMIN_PASSWORD=change-me ./goosenote-server-linux-x64
# GooseNotes server is running
#   Requests portal   http://localhost:8787/portal/
#   Admin dashboard   http://localhost:8787/admin/

Server downloads: Linux · Linux ARM · Windows · macOS. The first time you start it, set ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD to create the first admin. The self-hosting guide covers running it as a service, HTTPS and backups.

work out the price

Pricing is per staff seat: admins, managers and developers. People who only submit requests are free on every plan. Every install starts with a 30-day trial with all features on, and there's nothing to sign up for.

Buying a license: online checkout isn't open yet. Email us or use the form below, and we'll send your license key and an invoice.

• community · up to 5 stafffree, forever
• team · you run the server$5 / staff / month
• business · you run the server$10 / staff / month
• pay once insteadfrom $1,190
• we run the serverfrom $7 · coming soon
• people asking for thingsalways free

Staff are admins, managers and developers. Paid plans are billed yearly and start at 6 seats. Business adds priority support and audit log export. Single sign-on is planned for Business but isn't available yet. A pay-once license starts at 10 seats and includes a year of updates. After that it keeps working for good, and renewing updates costs 40% a year.

Licenses are checked offline, with no activation and no phone-home, so GooseNotes runs on networks with no internet too. If a license lapses, your data stays put and everyone can keep working. You won't be able to add staff until it's renewed.

Founding customers get 30% off for as long as they stay, and nonprofits and schools get 50% off, on yearly plans and pay-once licenses alike. Startups get 50% off their first year, and open-source projects get Team for free. Moving from another tracker? Get in touch and we can help bring your tickets over.

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