NowStack

The focus task stack

Free · In‑App Purchases

Reminders is spilling over with your next 12 months — NowStack holds your next 12 minutes. Knock tasks off, skip them, or send them to Apple Reminders. NowStack lives in your menu bar, one glance from whatever you're doing. The task on top shows right next to the clock, so you never lose the thread. Add one in a keystroke, drag to reorder, tag to group, and focus a single task with a live time-box countdown. A STACK, NOT A LIST One task sits on top. The rest wait beneath it, in the order you put them there. Finish the top one and the next comes into view — nothing else is asking for your attention in the meantime. ADD IT AND GET BACK TO WORK A global keystroke opens the panel wherever you are. Type the task, add #tags inline as you go, press Return. Longer thoughts get as much room as they need, and renaming happens right in the row rather than in a sheet. WHEN IT ISN'T NOW Mute a task for an hour or an afternoon and it slides out of the stack, then comes back on its own. Hand it to Apple Reminders when it belongs to next week rather than this morning. Set one to repeat daily and it turns up at its time, every day, without being re-added. FOCUS ONE THING Give a task a time-box and the countdown runs beside the clock. Mark the one that really matters and it stays impossible to miss. ROOM FOR THE DETAILS Attach an image to a task and see it in the row. Group the stack by tag, or filter down to a single one when things get busy. Set an auto-tag and every new task carries it without you typing it twice. SEVERAL AT ONCE Command-click to pick a few tasks, Shift-click for a run of them. Tag them together, copy them as plain text, push them to Reminders, or finish the lot in one go. TAKE THE LIST WITH YOU Copy a batch and it comes out as plain text — one task per line, tags trailing — so it pastes into a note, a message or a commit and still reads as a list. Publish a stack as a link anyone can open, and revoke it the moment you're done. Send links and text straight into the stack from any app's Share menu. ON YOUR MAC AND YOUR IPHONE Your stack follows you over iCloud, so what you add on the Mac is on the phone by the time you get there. One purchase covers both — $3.99, once, no subscription. Free to try, with room for a dozen tasks before you decide. NowStack asks nothing of you when you're not looking at it: no account, no inbox, no streak to keep. Just the next thing, on top.

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A maintenance release: internal fixes, and the groundwork for carrying task images between your Mac and your iPhone. Everything 1.7.0 brought — images on tasks, the tag filter, auto-tag, shared stacks and picking several tasks at once — works as it did.

The developer, Alexander Fitterling, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
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    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
    • Other Data

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Seller
  • Alexander Fitterling
Size
  • 1.5 MB
Category
  • Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © 2026, Alexander Fitterling