The thing every free app gets wrong
A monthly task due on 1 January. You finally do it on 19 February.
Apple Reminders cannot express this. Things and OmniFocus can, and cost around $50 across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Dueish sits in that gap.
Three ways to repeat
No modes to learn beyond these. Each one is a sentence.
One-off
A due date, no repeat.
After completion
Always a full gap from when you finish, early or late. For anything where the clock starts when you last did it.
On a schedule
The dates never move, however early or late you are. Missed ones are skipped, not stacked up.
For the things you have to keep doing
Water the plants. Change the filter. Descale the kettle. Clean the gutters. Bleed the radiators. An oil change.
Not project management. Not a productivity system you have to maintain. Household upkeep, and getting the dates right.
Correct about dates, which is harder than it sounds
- 31 January plus a month is 28 February — and the month after returns to 31 March, instead of sticking at 28 forever.
- Every three days at 9am stays 9am across a clock change, in both directions.
- 29 February annuals do not quietly vanish for three years.
- A task due on the 1st stays on the 1st when you fly somewhere else.
- Your day can start at 4am, so ticking something off at one in the morning counts as the day you think it does.
Yours, and nobody else's
No account. No sign-up. No servers of ours for your tasks to sit on.
Everything lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud, in Apple's private database, which we cannot read. There is no tracking and no usage analytics — we do not know which features you use, or that you opened the app.
If Dueish crashes it sends a crash report, so the bug can be fixed. It carries a stack trace, your device model and the app version — never your tasks, and nothing that identifies you. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is in one.
Not out yet
Dueish is in development. If you would like a TestFlight invite when it is ready, say so.
Email hello@dueish.appFree, with a one-time unlock for shared lists later on. No subscription.