VoodooPad
VoodooPad is a personal wiki and note-taking application for macOS developed by Primate Labs. It lets users create interconnected wiki-style documents with rich text, Markdown, and plain-text pages, complete with images, links, and custom exports. The app is popular with researchers, developers, writers, and information architects who need to organize complex knowledge bases locally. VoodooPad supports web export with multiple responsive templates, scripting via JavaScript (Cocoascript), and cross-platform file sharing via Dropbox. It combines the structure of a wiki with the simplicity of a personal document manager.
AI Recommendation
1 suggestionVoodooPad 5 has not received updates since version 5.2 in April 2018 — there is no indication of active development or native Apple Silicon support. The app will continue to run under Rosetta 2 for now, but Apple is removing Rosetta in macOS 28 (September 2028), and an Intel-only build will stop launching on that release. If you rely on VoodooPad for an active knowledge base, contact Primate Labs directly to ask whether a native build is planned before the September 2028 deadline. As alternatives that run natively on Apple Silicon and offer similar wiki or note-taking workflows, consider Obsidian (free with optional paid sync), Notion (web-based with offline capability), or The Archive (a plain-text focused wiki for macOS). If your VoodooPad documents are in a portable format (Markdown or plain text), exporting and importing them into one of these alternatives is usually straightforward.
Recommended reading