A fast, beautiful task manager for Mac, Windows and Linux. Plan with Today / Week / Month / Year views, focus with built-in Pomodoro — and keep every task in a local database on your own computer.
Free forever · v1.0.5 · macOS, Windows & Linux
All the views and tools of a heavyweight planner, in a lightweight native app.
Press ⌃⌥Space anywhere for a Spotlight-style bar. Type a task, hit Enter, done — the app never opens.
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.
Drag the app to Applications, then right-click → Open → Open. Remembered after that.
SmartScreen may appear — click More info → Run anyway.
Make it executable: chmod +x Dayframe-1.0.5.AppImage, then run it.
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 (Apple Silicon or Intel). Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit. Linux as a 64-bit AppImage (runs on most modern distros). Pick the matching download above.
Use the contact form, or email [email protected] — I read everything.