Progress Note Studio
Get the app, $79
100% offline · nothing saved or sent · Windows desktop

Finish tonight's notes before you leave the office.

Complete, audit-ready SOAP notes built from point-and-click clinical findings, with eight screeners scored for you. Nothing touches the cloud. One-time license, no subscription, ever.

No account·No recordings·Zero network connections·Digitally signed publisher
ProgressNoteStudio.exe · Session note
OFFLINE

OBJECTIVE - MENTAL STATUS EXAM

The client presented as well-groomed and appropriately dressed. Mood was euthymic. Affect was full range and congruent with stated mood. Thought process was linear, logical, and goal-directed.

Standardized Measures

The following standardized measure was administered this session: PHQ-9 (depression, 0-27) — result: 11. Results will be used to monitor symptom change over the course of treatment.

ASSESSMENT

The client's current presentation is consistent with major depressive symptoms.
Editable·Copy to EHR or export to Word
RESOURCE MONITORNetwork activity from this app: 0 B

It's 7:40 pm, and you're still working through progress notes.

The last client left an hour ago. The notes didn't. Tomorrow's schedule is already full, so whatever doesn't get written tonight follows you home again.

OPTION 01
Cancel your evening plans

Stay late finishing notes, again, and inch a little closer to burnout.

OPTION 02
Pay $400–$1,440 a year

Every year, for note tools that want your sessions living on their servers.

OPTION 03
Start dreading the work you love

Because the documentation never actually ends.

OPTION 04

Software that lives on your computer, writes from checkboxes and clinical language you approve, and that you buy once.

HOW IT WORKS

Click the findings. Get the note.

1

Click what you observed

12 MSE domains, 40+ interventions, 19 clinical impressions, structured risk fields. Findings are alphabetized chips; “within normal limits” is one click.

2

Screen inside the app

PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, C-SSRS and four more, with full questionnaires scored for you. A positive C-SSRS or PHQ-9 item 9 prompts the risk section.

3

Generate, review, export

A complete SOAP note in professional clinical language. Edit anything, copy it into your EHR, or export to Word.

What that means for your Tuesday nights
01

Client information physically cannot leak

No server, no account, no network connection. Being offline is the design, not a setting.

02

Hours of typing, returned to you

Impressions are clickable, sentence formation is done for you, and your free-text sections weave into the finished note.

03

Internal validity, built in

Guardrails catch contradictions, so a note never reads “euthymic and anxious.” What you click is what it says.

04

Your best clinical language, on a tired night

Quick end-of-day phrasing becomes clear third-person prose. Client quotes stay word for word.

05

Risk documentation an auditor can follow

Structured SI/HI fields, protective factors, access to lethal means. Skip the section and the note asserts nothing. The app never rates overall risk. That determination stays yours.

06

Nothing lingers between clients

No client identifiers required, and the app stores nothing. Move the note to your records system and you're ready for the next hour.

ARCHITECTURE, NOT POLICY

There is no server, so there is nothing to breach.

AI scribes and cloud EHRs protect your clients' data with policies: encryption promises, BAAs, compliance certifications. All of it depends on someone else's server behaving.

Progress Note Studio removes the server.

No cloud

The app makes zero network connections. Block it in Windows Firewall, and every feature keeps working.

No recordings

Nothing to upload, transcribe, or subpoena from a vendor.

No automatic storage

The app saves nothing on its own. You decide what leaves the screen.

THIS IS THE TRIAL

Build a real note right now.

Same chips, same scoring, same contradiction guard, same generated note as the desktop app. Nothing you click is recorded, just like the app.

01Objective: Mental Status Exam

Click findings, or mark everything typical in one click. Try selecting “anxious” after “euthymic”: the contradicting finding is deselected automatically, so a note can never contradict itself.

02Screener: PHQ-9 (the app's full form)

The complete PHQ-9, scored exactly as the app scores it. GAD-7, PCL-5, C-SSRS and four more live inside the app, each answered by radio button and scored for you, with cutoffs interpreted.

PHQ-9: developed by Drs. Spitzer, Williams, Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission required.

03Assessment & Risk

Impressions are chips; risk is structured the way auditors read it. Defaults record “not assessed,” so the note never asserts an assessment you did not perform.

Clinical impression
Suicidal ideation
Protective factors
Endorse passive ideation and the note documents access to lethal means, even as “not assessed,” because that's what best practice (and your auditor) expects. Note what it does not do: it never rates overall risk for you.
04Plan: interventions used

40+ interventions in the full app, filtered as you type.

GENERATED NOTE
Click findings on the left, then press Generate note. The note will appear here in finished clinical prose.
In the desktop app this note is fully editable, then copied to your EHR or exported to Word, plus a guided Subjective builder, telehealth attestation, and all eight auto-scoring screeners.

If the note above reads like something you'd sign, the full app works the same way, plus 12 MSE domains, 40+ interventions, all eight auto-scored screeners, and Word export.

Get the full app, $79
FROM VERIFIED BUYERS
★★★★★

“A game-changer for therapists”

“Excellent tool! It streamlines documentation without sacrificing quality. The notes are thorough, efficient, and cover all the bases, giving therapists confidence in their documentation.”

— M., LPC  ·  verified purchase
★★★★★

“Game-changer tool!”

“This tool is a game-changer… In a few minutes, I can have my notes generated in a professional way; no more late nights finishing notes.”

— CA  ·  verified purchase
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PRICING

Everything you need. One price, one time.

Top subscription note tool, one year$1,440
Progress Note Studio, forever$79

Less than three weeks of their bill, and you never pay it again. Because there's nothing to host: no servers, no cloud processing, no per-user infrastructure.

A NOTE FROM THE BUILDER

I'm a counselor in Virginia, and I built the documentation tool I couldn't find anywhere: fully offline, no subscription, and designed to lessen the documentation burden without sacrificing quality or integrity.

$79
one time
No subscription. No account. No renewal, ever.
Lifetime single-user license, one clinician, up to two of your own devices
8 auto-scoring clinical measures, plus score entry for 4 more
Getting-started guide, first note in under 10 minutes
The demo above as your free trial, so you try it before you pay
Get Progress Note Studio, $79

Because the app downloads instantly, all sales are final; the demo above is the trial. Windows 10/11 · Instant download · Licensed, not sold · Not an EHR: you decide what enters your records system.

FAQ

Questions clinicians actually ask

INSTALLATION

Three clicks. Here's exactly what to expect.

STEP 1

Download

From your purchase email. The link keeps working, so re-download any time.

STEP 2

Unzip

Put the folder anywhere you like. No installer, no wizard.

STEP 3

Double-click

ProgressNoteStudio.exe. That's it, nothing else to set up.

Is it safe to run?

Yes. The app is digitally signed by an identity-verified publisher, verified through Microsoft, so your computer can confirm it's the genuine, unaltered app. If SmartScreen shows a first-launch notice (normal for new software), click More info → Run anyway.

Don't take our word for “offline.” Test it.

Open Resource Monitor (search “resmon”, Network tab) while you work: zero network activity from ProgressNoteStudio.exe. Or block it entirely in Windows Firewall, and every feature keeps working.

For the security-minded: verify your download

Run Get-FileHash ProgressNoteStudio_v1.1.1_2026-07-30.zip in PowerShell and compare. A match means the file is byte-for-byte what we published.

0e38ac78ef27e54c264ec1ff27cc84ab2ee840e3be0b46b0fcc8359552437b5e

Progress Note Studio is a documentation drafting tool. It is not intended to replace your electronic health record. You decide what to enter into your EHR, which remains your permanent client-records system.

Stop renting your notes app.

One purchase. No cloud. Notes done before you lock up.

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