To-dos tucked into your MacBook's notch. Rest the pointer on the notch for a moment and a short list slides out: type, press Return, tick things off, move on. Native macOS app (SwiftUI + AppKit, macOS 14+).

Tuck has no window, no Dock icon and no menu bar item. It sits in the notch and stays out of the way until you hover. On Macs without a notch it lives, invisible, at the top center of the screen.

Tuck is open source and free. No accounts, no telemetry, no network calls except the daily update check against GitHub releases.

Install

Download Tuck-<version>.zip from Releases, unzip, and move Tuck.app to Applications. Builds are signed and notarized. Tuck opens at login by default. Updates come through Sparkle: Tuck checks the latest GitHub release once a day and installs new versions on its own.

Or build it yourself (needs Xcode 26 / Swift 6):

git clone https://github.com/techtheoryio/tuck.git && cd tuck
scripts/build-app.sh 0.0.0 && open .build/Tuck.app

For development:

swift run Tuck        # build and launch (no updates or login item outside the .app)
swift test            # to-do list tests

Using it

• Rest the pointer on the notch: it grows a little and a thin bar below it fills up; when it is full the list opens (1.8 s by default, adjustable in Settings). On a MacBook with a Dynamic Island a ring runs around the pill instead, and the list floats out of it. Clicking or tapping the notch opens the list right away.
• Type and press Return to add a to-do. Click one to tick it off. Right-click to delete it.
• Clear done removes ticked-off items. Esc or moving the pointer away closes the list (it stays open while you have unsent text).
• Click Tuck in the open panel for Settings (hover delay, open at login, updates) and Quit.

Contributing

Bug fixes and polish are always welcome — just open a PR. For a new feature, open an issue first. Tuck is supposed to stay tiny.

• Keep the diff focused. One change per PR.
• No new dependencies (Sparkle for updates is the only one).
• Logic goes in Sources/TuckCore with a test in Tests/TuckCoreTests; swift test must pass.

Notes

• Sources/TuckCore — the to-do list and its storage, no UI. Sources/Tuck — the notch panel (NotchController: window, hover and positioning; NotchView: SwiftUI).
• To-dos live in ~/Library/Application Support/Tuck/todos.json, saved on every change. A file that can't be read is moved to todos.json.broken rather than overwritten.
• Debug: TUCK_OPEN=1 swift run Tuck starts with the list open and keeps it open. Add TUCK_SNAPSHOT=out.png to write a PNG of the panel and quit.- App icon: put it at Sources/Tuck/Resources/AppIcon.icns; scripts/build-app.sh picks it up.
• Releasing: push a v1.2.0-style tag; .github/workflows/release.yaml runs the tests, builds a universal .app with scripts/build-app.sh, signs and notarizes it, and attaches the zip to a GitHub release. It also signs the zip with Sparkle's EdDSA key and attaches an appcast.xml; the app's feed URL is releases/latest/download/appcast.xml. Secrets: DEVELOPER_ID_P12 (base64 .p12), DEVELOPER_ID_P12_PASSWORD, NOTARY_KEY (base64 App Store Connect .p8), NOTARY_KEY_ID, NOTARY_ISSUER_ID, SPARKLE_ED_KEY (.build/artifacts/sparkle/Sparkle/bin/generate_keys --account tuck -x key.txt; the public key is in scripts/build-app.sh).

License

MIT.