Apple Notes

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add apple-mcp-notes -e APPLE_NOTES_MCP_SAFETY_MODE=... -e APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_ACCOUNTS=... -e APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_FOLDERS=... -- uvx apple-mcp-notes

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-mcp-notes": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-mcp-notes"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_NOTES_MCP_SAFETY_MODE": "...",
        "APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_ACCOUNTS": "...",
        "APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_FOLDERS": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Inspect, search, create, edit, move, and organize notes in Apple Notes on macOS.

Questions

Apple Notes is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package apple-mcp-notes.

Run: claude mcp add apple-mcp-notes -e APPLE_NOTES_MCP_SAFETY_MODE=... -e APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_ACCOUNTS=... -e APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_FOLDERS=... -- uvx apple-mcp-notes

Run: codex mcp add apple-mcp-notes --env APPLE_NOTES_MCP_SAFETY_MODE=... --env APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_ACCOUNTS=... --env APPLE_NOTES_MCP_ALLOWED_FOLDERS=... -- uvx apple-mcp-notes

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