A fast, beautiful task manager for macOS. Plan with Today / Week / Month / Year views, focus with built-in Pomodoro — and keep every task in a local database on your own Mac.
Free forever · v1.0.0 · ~100 MB DMG
All the views and tools of a heavyweight planner, in a lightweight native app.
Zoom from “what's next” to a full year plan. Overdue tasks are always front and center.
One click starts a 25-minute focus session on any task. The countdown lives in your menu bar.
See today's tasks, start a focus session, or add a task — straight from the macOS menu bar.
Drag cards through Backlog → To do → In progress → Done when list view isn't enough.
Daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly or yearly. Complete one and the next occurrence appears automatically.
Type report tomorrow 9:00 #work !2 and everything is parsed — date, time, list, priority.
Your tasks live in a SQLite database on your Mac. No account, no sync servers, no telemetry.
Daily local backups kept for 14 days, plus one-click JSON export and import.
Global ⌘⇧D shortcut, launch at login, dock badge with today's count, runs in the background.
No separate timer app, no setup. Every task has a ▶ 25m button. Click it and you're in a focus session.
One line, fully parsed. No forms, no date pickers.
No trial, no pro tier, no locked features. If Dayframe saves your day now and then, a donation keeps it going.
Dayframe is built and maintained by one person. There are no ads and no paid tiers — if it's useful to you, a small donation makes a big difference and goes toward an Apple developer subscription so the app can be properly notarized.
One-time, any amount. Thank you — every coffee counts. ♥
Yes. Every feature is free, forever, for everyone. Donations are completely optional and simply help cover development time and the Apple developer subscription.
In a SQLite database on your Mac, at ~/Library/Application Support/Dayframe. Nothing is ever uploaded anywhere. Dayframe also keeps automatic daily backups for 14 days, and you can export or import a JSON backup any time from the File menu.
No — by design. Dayframe is local-first: no account, no servers, no tracking. If you need to move to another Mac, use File → Export Backup and import it on the other machine.
Dayframe isn't notarized by Apple yet, because notarization requires a paid Apple Developer subscription. The app is safe — just right-click it and choose Open on first launch. Donations go toward getting the app signed and notarized.
macOS 11 Big Sur or newer. Both Apple Silicon (M-series) and Intel Macs are supported — pick the matching download above. Not sure which you have? Apple menu → About This Mac.
Email me at [email protected] — I read everything.