Locks, never guesses
Click the lock, click where you want it. From then on the note moves, resizes and hides with that window. It comes off only when you unlock it.
Free for Windows
Sticky notes stick to your screen. This one sticks to the window.
Move the window and the note comes with it; minimise it and the note hides too; bring it back and the note is already there.
It never comes off until you take it off. Notes are stored on your PC only. It is a single file, with no account and no payment.
winget install WindowPin
No installer · a single executable · touches nothing in the registry · v3.1.2
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64-bitWindows 10 · 11
See it move
A note is created, pinned to a window, and it travels with that window. 26 seconds, no sound.
How it works
Why it exists
When a dozen windows are open, it takes minutes to remember which one was which.
A note parked somewhere on screen loses its meaning the moment you move the window.
WindowPin locks a note to one specific window.
Once locked, the note moves, resizes and hides with that window, and it does not come off until you unlock it yourself.
Notes are stored on your PC only.
It is a single file, with no account and no payment.
Three clicks, and it stays
1
Hover the note and click the lock
2
The screen dims and a preview follows your cursor
3
Click where you want it — it locks there
A note stuck to the screen
Pinned to desktop coordinates. Move the window and the note stays behind.
A note stuck to the window
Attached to the window itself. Move it and the note follows; minimise it and the note hides too.
Features
Everything a window-side note needs
Small enough to forget it is there. Sharp enough that you never lose a window again.
Index labels
A one-line tag on the title bar — like the colored index tabs on a binder. Click a label to bring its window to the front.
Checklist mode
Turn any note into a to-do list with progress. Done items can hide themselves.
Reminders
Once, daily, weekdays or weekly. The note flashes and a toast tells you which window it belongs to.
Private by design
Notes live in one file on your PC. No account, no cloud. The app only asks for updates and news, and both can be switched off in settings.
Help
How notes and labels actually work
What to click the first time you open it, and the things you only find out after a few days.
Pin to a window, and unpin
Hover a note and a padlock appears. Press it, the screen dims, and wherever you click is where the note sticks. To release it, use [Unlock] in the note's menu. Until then it will not come off, however you move the window.
Turn it into a checklist
Switch a note to checklist mode and every line gets a circle. Hide the finished ones and only what is left shows.
Use colour to tell them apart
The more windows you have, the more colour does the work. Green for dev, red for production — your eye knows before you read a word. Size and opacity are per note too.
Fold it out of the way
Double-click the title bar and the note folds to a single line. Nothing is lost, it just stops covering things. Double-click again to open it.
Have it remind you
Give a note a time and it surfaces then. Daily, weekdays or weekly repeats are there too. Good for fifteen minutes before a meeting, or the last check before a release.
Keep it out of your way
Turn on click-through and clicks pass straight to the window behind. Set it to fade when the mouse leaves and it only sharpens when you look at it. Both are per note.
Find one among many
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F opens search from anywhere (you can change the combination in Settings). It looks through the text, checklist items, tags and the name of the window a note is pinned to — and Enter brings that window to the front along with the note.
Move them to another PC
Export from the manager and you get one file. Import it on the other PC and you carry on. The default is "add only what is missing", so importing the same file twice adds nothing.
Right on the window you are looking at
Hold Alt and right-click any window: a menu opens for that window. Its title sits at the top, so you never pin to the wrong one. Pinning a note or label to it, and showing or hiding its notes, are all in one place. A plain right-click without Alt behaves exactly as it always did.
Start from the desktop
Turn it on in settings and WindowPin appears when you right-click empty space on the desktop or in a folder. You can make a note or open the manager without hunting for the app. On Windows 11 it lives under Show more options.
A label names a window
If a note is for writing something down, a label is for naming. Think of it as a one-line index tab stuck to the window's title bar.
Making one
Click the window you want so it is active, then Ctrl+Alt+L (changeable in Settings). The [New label] button in the manager does the same thing.
Click it to switch
Each label is a shortcut. Click and that window comes forward. With five identical terminals open, nothing is faster.
Renaming
Double-click the label, or press F2. It becomes editable in place.
Three shapes
Tab, pill or flag. Give different kinds of window different shapes and they separate without you looking at colour at all.
Numbers and icons
Numbers are one click away: “Assign next number” gives the label the next free one. You can put one icon in front too — a padlock for the window nobody should touch, a bug for whatever you are chasing today.
Width
It grows to fit the text. Drag an edge once and it stays at that width, even when the name changes.
Keyboard shortcuts
- Ctrl + Alt + N
- New note on the window you are looking at
- Ctrl + Alt + L
- New label on the window you are looking at
- Ctrl + Shift + F
- Search every note
- Alt + Right-click
- Open a menu for the window under the cursor
- F2
- Rename a label
- Esc
- Cancel picking a window
If another program already uses one of these, only that shortcut stops working. Everything else carries on.
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How to install
Two package managers, or the file itself. A package manager never touches the browser, so no download warning appears at all.
Install with one line
winget is the package manager built into Windows 10 and 11. Paste this single line into a terminal or PowerShell and you are done.
> winget install WindowPin
Because nothing goes through the browser, neither Chrome's “suspicious file” warning nor Windows SmartScreen ever shows up.
Install with Scoop
Scoop is a Windows package manager popular with developers. Add the bucket once, and from then on a single scoop update keeps you on the latest build.
> scoop bucket add windowpin https://github.com/work517/scoop-windowpin
> scoop install windowpin
Nothing goes through the browser, so neither the download warning nor SmartScreen ever appears.
New to Scoop? We'll walk you through it, starting with opening the window →
Grab the executable
There is no installer. Run the file you downloaded and it works straight away — it never touches the registry.
DownloadIf your browser warns you
The file is signed with our Projectteamforyou code-signing certificate. Even so, Chrome may call it a file that “isn't commonly downloaded” and Windows SmartScreen may report an unknown publisher. That is about how new the certificate is, not about the file being unsafe.
In Chrome, open the ⋮ menu next to the download and choose Keep. In Windows, click More info, then Run anyway. If the SHA-256 below matches the value printed on this page, the file is exactly what we published.
Frequently asked questions
Is it free?
Yes. Free for both personal and business use.
Where are my notes stored?
Only in %APPDATA%\WindowPin on your PC. Note contents are never sent to any server.
Does it work with elevated windows?
Yes. A second tracking path reads the window rectangle directly, for cases where accessibility events are blocked.
Is there an installer?
No. Run the file you downloaded and that is it. Nothing is written to the registry, and removing it means deleting the file. If you want it, there is a setting to start with Windows.
Chrome says the file looks suspicious.
The file is signed with our Projectteamforyou code-signing certificate. SmartScreen, though, judges a publisher by how long and how widely its files have run without trouble, and our certificate is new, so the same warning can still appear. Open the file's Properties → Digital Signatures to confirm the publisher is PROJECTTEAMFORYOU, and compare the SHA-256 shown on the download page to confirm the file has not been altered.
Do notes disappear when I restart the program?
No. A note remembers what its window looked like — executable name, window class, title — and re-attaches when that window comes back. If it cannot be sure which window is the right one, it waits instead of guessing: the manager marks it in amber, and selecting it and pressing [Lock to window] puts it back.
Can it tell several windows of the same program apart?
Within one session, exactly. After a restart it separates them by window title, and if the titles match too it asks rather than pinning to the wrong one. For windows whose title keeps changing, such as terminals, you can set a keyword from the title in the note's settings and it will match on that.
Does it need an internet connection?
Not for anything to do with notes. Turn off news and update checks in settings and the program contacts no server at all.
How many notes can I have?
There is no set limit. Having more than a few dozen on screen at once gets busy, though. Notes you do not need right now can be hidden or archived — they stay in the list and leave the screen.
How do I update?
Download the new file and replace the old one. Your notes and settings live in a separate folder and stay where they are.
Are my notes deleted when I remove the program?
Deleting the executable leaves your notes behind. To clear everything, delete the %APPDATA%\WindowPin folder as well. [Open data folder] in the manager takes you straight there.
Can I use it on a work computer?
It is free for personal and business use. Note content never leaves the machine, so internal material is fine. The stored files are not encrypted, though, so do not keep passwords or government ID numbers in a note.
Does Alt+right-click interfere with other programs?
No. Only a right-click held with Alt is intercepted; nothing else about your mouse is touched. A plain right-click reaches the program underneath exactly as before. If you would rather not have it, the setting turns off this one feature.
I do not see it in the desktop right-click menu.
On Windows 11 it is under Show more options, or in the older menu you get with Shift+F10. Appearing in the new compact menu requires shipping as an installed package, which would end the "one file, no install" nature of this app. Also check that you turned the option on in settings.
Does it touch the registry?
Only when you turn the desktop menu on, and only under your own user hive (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). No administrator rights, no effect on other users. Turning it off removes what it added — and it checks its own marker first, so another program’s menu entries are never touched.
What is different about the lightweight build?
Nothing about the app itself. The large file carries the .NET runtime inside it and runs anywhere; the lightweight build uses the runtime already on the PC. If it is missing, Windows offers to install it on first run. If you are not sure, take the large file above.
Check that the file you got is the real one
Paste this single line into PowerShell and it prints the checksum of the file you just downloaded. If it matches the value above, the file is exactly what we published.
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WindowPin
v3.1.2
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Windows 10 · 11 (64-bit) · 47.2 MB
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Versionv3.1.2
File size47.2 MB
Released2026-10-20
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