QuickTodo iconQuickToDo

Lives in your menu bar

Capture the thought before it's gone.

Hit one keystroke, type — or just say it — and get back to work. QuickTodo is a native Mac to‑do list that opens instantly, weighs less than a photo, and never phones home.

⌘⇧T open anywhere ⌘⇧D dictate a task
Coming to the Mac App Store Free · No account · Works offline

The whole app. 360 pixels of focus.

556 KB
on disk — smaller than one photo
0.0%
CPU while idle, measured
100%
on-device — dictation included
0
accounts, trackers, or servers

Everything a to‑do needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Every feature earns its place by making capture faster or review clearer — and stays out of your way the rest of the time.

Summon it from anywhere

⌘⇧T drops the list from your menu bar over any app. Type, hit return, gone — faster than opening a notes app.

Say it, it's scheduled

⌘⇧D and speak. Say "order felt paper, due date tomorrow" and the task lands with its date already set. Speech never leaves your Mac.

Tags, typed inline

Put a # before any word and it becomes a pill, right where you typed it. Click a pill to see everything with that tag.

Lists for each life

Work, Shopping, Job sites — switch lists from the bottom bar and everything scopes to it: search, tags, counts. "All" is always one click back.

Dates that read at a glance

Today glows amber, what's ahead is green, what slipped is red. Click any date badge to see just that day.

Search everything

One box, live results across titles, notes and subtasks — even that measurement you buried three subtasks deep.

A widget on your desktop

Optionally park the full app on your wallpaper — frosted glass, under your windows, on every desktop. Same list, always in view.

Depth on demand

Subtasks, notes, pin-to-top, drag to reorder — tucked behind a chevron so the list stays clean until you need more.

What sets it apart

Small is a feature.

  • Native Swift, not a wrapped website. 556 KB installed and 0.0% idle CPU — it's indistinguishable from a sleeping process until the moment you call it.
  • Private by architecture, not by promise. No account, no server, no analytics. Your tasks live in a file on your Mac; even dictation is transcribed on-device.
  • Built for the half-second thought. Every flow is measured in keystrokes: summon, capture, dismiss. It respects that your real work is somewhere else.

Depth when you want it — a chevron away.