Alcove: Tasks & Notes

Alcove is a calm to-do list, daily planner and notes app in one place. Capture tasks in plain words, plan your week on a calendar, keep notes that do the maths, and move work along on kanban boards. Tick tasks off from a widget, and find the same lists on your Mac, kept in step by your own iCloud.

TYPE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Write "Call mum Friday 6pm" or "Stand-up every weekday 9:30 15m /Work" and Alcove picks out the day, time, length, repeat, priority, list and tags as you type. On the Mac, press Option-Space from any app to add a task.

SPEAK YOUR TASKS Say everything on your mind at once. Alcove turns it into separate tasks, each with its date, time and list.

PLAN YOUR DAY AND WEEK • Today, Upcoming and a calendar with an hour grid and an all-day row • Drag a task to a new time or day • Repeating tasks for any rhythm: every few days, weeks, months or years, chosen weekdays, or counted from when you finished

REMINDERS AS LOUD AS THE TASK Pick quiet, a notification, or an alarm. On iPhone with iOS 26, an alarm rings through silent mode and Focus, with Stop and Snooze. Mark a task done right from its reminder.

NOTES THAT DO THE MATHS Headings, checklists, code, quotes and tables, written with Markdown shortcuts. End a line with = and it's worked out, and tables add up their own totals. Paste a checklist or table from another app and it arrives as one. Turn any checklist line into a task.

KANBAN BOARDS Lay tasks out in To do, Doing and Done, or columns of your own. Tasks stay in their lists and in Today, and a card dropped in Done is finished everywhere.

WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and Mac desktop, with tasks you can tick without opening the app • Controls for Control Center and the Lock Screen • Siri adds tasks, reads out your day and takes notes • Shortcuts actions for your own automations

MADE FOR THE MAC A menu bar list with a live count, a main window with a sidebar of every list, board and note, floating windows for lists, notes and boards that stay on top, and keyboard shortcuts throughout. AI assistants can work with your tasks too, but only once you turn them on, only with the permissions you approve, and every call is logged.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create, no ads and no tracking. Your tasks and notes sync through your own iCloud. Progress shows what you finished against what you added, worked out on your device, with no streaks and no scores.

AND THE DETAILS • 100 steps of undo, and six months of history for every task • Files and pictures attached to tasks and notes, on every device through your iCloud • Search across tasks, notes, tags and attachments • Lists with colours and icons, folders and tags • Nine accents and eight papers, in light and dark

ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Download free and try everything for 14 days, starting whenever you're ready. Then a single purchase unlocks Alcove for good on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, and Family Sharing includes your family. If you don't unlock, your tasks and notes stay readable and exportable, and nothing is deleted.

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