Plan only six priorities, focus on one at a time, and finish the day with clarity. The Ivy Lee Method on iPhone, iPad, and Mac - without subscriptions.
SIX PRIORITIES. ONE CLEAR DAY.
Long to-do lists create noise. Ivy6 helps you decide what truly matters, focus on one task at a time, and finish the day with a plan you can trust.
Built around the Ivy Lee Method, Ivy6 turns a century-old productivity ritual into a focused daily planner for iPhone, iPad, and Mac:
1. Capture everything in your Inbox.
2. Choose your six most important tasks.
3. Put them in priority order.
4. Work through them one at a time.
5. Reconsider unfinished work with a clean daily reset.
YOUR DAILY 6
Commit to no more than six priorities for the day. The limit helps you choose deliberately instead of carrying an endless list from one day to the next.
DEEP WORK, ONE TASK AT A TIME
Start a distraction-free focus session for your current priority. Use a stopwatch, countdown, or Pomodoro-style timer and track the time you give to meaningful work.
CAPTURE NOW, PRIORITIZE LATER
Keep ideas, errands, and future tasks in your Inbox until they deserve a place in today’s plan. Add estimates, recurring routines, and reminders to make planning easier.
A FRESH START EVERY DAY
At the daily reset, unfinished tasks return to your Inbox for a conscious decision. Completed work stays in your history, so tomorrow begins without yesterday’s clutter.
BUILT FOR THE APPLE ECOSYSTEM
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• Live Activities and Dynamic Island during focus sessions
• Siri Shortcuts for quick capture and your next priority
• Read-only calendar context beside your Daily 6
• Native layouts for iPhone and iPad
• A Mac app with menu bar access and keyboard shortcuts
• Morning, evening, and weekly review reminders
• Task breakdown suggestions for work that feels too large
UNDERSTAND HOW YOU WORK
Review completed tasks, focus time, streaks, rollover patterns, and stale work. Ivy6 helps you plan a realistic day and improve the way you choose priorities—not simply count more tasks.
IVY6 PRO — ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION
Unlock Ivy6 Pro forever with a single purchase:
• Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Advanced weekly insights and task-level focus analytics
• Full task history and guided Weekly Review
• Seasonal themes
• Data export
• Apple Intelligence-enhanced task breakdown on supported devices
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No ads. No tracking. No account to create. Your task data stays on your device and, when you enable Pro sync, in your private iCloud account.
Choose six. Focus on one. Finish what matters.
Appears to be a very straightforward app and should be easy to use however no directions so it’s not good to try and guess how to use it. I make two task to start and swiped to move to daily and when I hit complete for day one they did not transfer to my next days task that disappointing they should automatically go to daily meaning each day that week. What am I missing
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback, and sorry for the confusion. In Ivy6, moving a task to “Daily” means adding it to today’s focus list, not automatically making it repeat every day. Once you complete that task, it is marked done for that day and won’t appear again tomorrow.If you want a task to come back each day, add it as a recurring task and choose “Recurrence” → “Daily” when creating it. We can see how the wording is confusing, especially since “Daily” can sound like “every day,” so we’ll work on making the instructions and labels clearer.Thanks for pointing this out. It helps me improve the onboarding and make the app easier to understand.
Organize your day more effectively: break tasks into subtasks, snooze them until tomorrow or next Monday, and find them quickly with tags.
NEW
• Break tasks into subtasks and check off each step directly from the list.
• Add tags with @ or #, filter your Inbox, and show only snoozed tasks.
• Archive tasks that have been inactive for too long with a single tap.
• In Focus, choose between stopwatch, 25/5 Pomodoro, and countdown modes based on estimated duration.
IMPROVED
• Focus is more immersive, with auto-hiding controls, smoother transitions, and improved support for Reduce Motion and VoiceOver.
• Badges and suggestions are clearer and better organized; task decomposition is easier to discover.
• The Today screen now updates its title, estimated duration, day streak, and sync status.
• Completion celebrations, Italian localization, Apple Intelligence prompts, and widget completion syncing have been improved.
FIXED
• Fixed the Pomodoro break timer, combined tag and snooze filtering, and daily completion tracking.
• Improved data and reset reliability, along with the alignment of several Settings elements.
Version 2.0
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