What if you want to run Keep like an app? Sadly, Google is discontinuing desktop apps and everything that used to be an app must be converted to the web. It is much more convenient.Ī long time ago and with an old version of OS X I showed how to add a Google Keep icon to the Dock to enable it to be opened in its own window. This guide shows how you can run it on the desktop like a regular Mac app. Google Keep is a great app for storing notes and some people prefer it to the Notes Mac app.