Now with early reminders

Apple Reminders,
one hotkey away.

Adding a reminder shouldn’t mean leaving what you’re doing. Press ⌥Space, type it the way you’d say it, and Perch handles the rest—without breaking your flow.

Buy for macOS

€4.99, once: no subscription, no account.
Requires macOS 14 or later.

How Perch works

Your Reminders have a new perch.

Perch sits in the menu bar and works directly with the lists you already use. Same reminders, closer at hand.

  • Hotkeys

    In and out without losing focus.

    Perch has no window to find and no app to switch to. Press ⌥Space and the panel drops from the menu bar over whatever you’re doing; Esc steps you back out of it, and your work is exactly where you left it.

    The Perch menu bar panel listing today’s reminders, each with its list colour and due time.

  • Quick entry

    Type it the way you’d say it.

    Reminders is a fine place to keep a task but a slow place to add one. With Perch you can write “Email Sam this evening !! /Work”“Kúpiť mlieko zajtra o 9:00 /Nákupy”“Milch kaufen morgen um 9 Uhr /Einkauf”“Comprar leche mañana a las 9:00 /Compras”“Acheter du lait demain à 9h /Courses”“Comprare il latte domani alle 9:00 /Spesa”“Melk kopen morgen om 9:00 /Boodschappen”“Kupić mleko jutro o 9:00 /Zakupy”“Comprar leite amanhã às 9:00 /Compras”“Köp mjölk imorgon kl 9 /Inköp”“Køb mælk i morgen kl. 9 /Indkøb”“Koupit mléko zítra v 9 /Nákupy”“Kjøp melk i morgen kl 9 /Innkjøp”“Comprar leite amanhã às 9 /Compras”“Cumpără lapte mâine la 9 /Cumpărături”“Kupi mlijeko sutra u 9 /Kupovina”“Αγόρασε γάλα αύριο στις 9 /Ψώνια”“Tejet venni holnap 9-kor /Bevásárlás”“Osta maitoa huomenna klo 9 /Ostokset”“Купити молоко завтра о 9 /Покупки”“Süt al yarın saat 9 /Alışveriş”“Comprar leche mañana a las 9:00 /Compras” and it picks up the date, time, priority, and list straight from the sentence.

    The Perch panel with a reminder typed in plain language, and chips showing the date, time, and list Perch read from the sentence.

  • Menu bar

    See it without opening it.

    A live count shows what’s due today, or the next thing itself if you’d rather read it than count it. When you open the panel, you’re right where you left off: Today, Upcoming, All, No Date, or any of your lists.

    The Perch panel scoped from the menu bar, ready to scan what’s due without opening Apple Reminders.

  • Sync

    It’s still Reminders, just faster.

    You don’t use Perch instead of Reminders; you use it because you use Reminders. Everything you add or check off is an ordinary Apple Reminder, synced the same way it always has been.

    The Perch panel floating beside the Apple Reminders window, both showing the same list of reminders.

The rest of Perch

It respects how you work.

Your hands stay on the keyboard, reminders sort the way you want, quick entry works in your language, and the interface follows your Mac’s appearance. And because Perch is a small native Swift app, it all stays on your Mac.

  • Keeps you on the keyboard.

    The same field searches as you type. Arrows to move, Space to complete, ⌘Z to undo a mis-tap. The mouse is optional. See Shortcuts

  • Sorts the way you want.

    Some days you scan for what’s due, some days for what matters. The order and the scope are yours: switch them whenever your day does.

  • In your language.

    Perch is currently in 22 languages, and quick entry reads every one of them. Write a reminder the way you’d say it in yours, and the date, the time, and the list come along.

  • Sends nothing anywhere.

    No account, no analytics, no network connections of any kind. There’s nothing to opt out of, because I never built anything to collect.

  • Stays light on your Mac.

    A lightweight native macOS app: Swift through and through, under 6 MB on disk, with no helper processes or background services. There when you call it, quiet when you don’t.

  • Follows light and dark mode.

    Dark mode or light mode, Perch follows your Mac’s appearance, including Increase Contrast.

And many more with every release. See what’s new

The maker

Why I built it.

A couple of months ago I noticed something derailing my work several times a day: a thought that needed filing while I was still inside something else. Reply to Sam. Book the dentist. Pick up the parcel. A different thought every time, but the ritual around it? Identical, dozens of times a week.

And every time, the same loop: switch to Reminders, press plus, type the title, pick a date, pick a time, close it, find my way back. Six clicks to file a six-word thought. The clicks weren’t the expensive part. Asking “where was I?” was.

The thing is, the thought already arrived complete. “Book the dentist Friday at nine.” Title, date, done, said in one breath. Filing it was only slow because a form stood between the sentence and the list. A thought that arrives as a sentence deserves to be filed as one.

Yours,

Michael DjibrilMaker of Perch

Before you buy

Good questions.

What Perch can and can’t do, what it costs, and where your data stays.

Have more questions? Send me a note

Get Perch.

Download Perch, press ⌥Space, and type the thing you were about to forget. Your reminders are already there.

Buy for macOS

€4.99, once: no subscription, no account.
Requires macOS 14 or later.