A reminders app for macOS 26

Reminders that drift across your screen.

Not a popup that ambushes your cursor. Not a badge you’ve learned to ignore. A little flyover through the upper part of your screen — hard to miss, easy to finish your sentence first.

Try it. Type a reminder.

Pick a craft

Click it mid-flight. Ignore it and see what happens.

Alerts demand.
Remdrift passes by.

The modal way

A dialog lands on top of whatever you were doing, grabs the keyboard, and waits. You click OK to make it go away. You remember nothing.

The Remdrift way

A banner crosses the top of the screen and keeps looping for up to five minutes. It never takes the keyboard. Click it when you’re ready, or let it land in Notification Center.

Departures

Pick what pulls your reminder.

Eleven styles and a wildcard. Every one has moving parts: wheels roll, propellers spin, the dog’s legs trot. Pick one and it flies across this page.

Time Flight Craft Remarks Status Launch
--:-- RD 001 Basic Ticker A translucent bar, news-ticker style. The sensible one. On time
--:-- RD 002 Beach Plane The original. A beach flyover ad for your to-do list. Boarding
--:-- RD 003 Barnstormer Open cockpit, flapping scarf, loop-the-loop energy. On time
--:-- RD 004 Rocket Reminders at escape velocity. Flame included. Final call
--:-- RD 005 Flying Saucer A friendly visitor, towing your to-do on a tractor beam. On time
--:-- RD 006 Hot-Air Balloon Takes its time. So can you — until it arrives. Delayed — it’s a balloon
--:-- RD 007 Blimp Your headline, on the side of an airship. As one does. On time
--:-- RD 008 Steam Train Choo-choo-chores. Wheels roll, smoke puffs, headline rides the boxcar. On time
--:-- RD 009 Box Truck Delivering one reminder, express, to your eyeballs. Boarding
--:-- RD 010 Long Dog The longer the reminder, the longer the dog. Science. Walkies
--:-- RD 011 Tabby Cat Tied the reminder to its own tail. Refuses to discuss it. Napping
--:-- RD 012 Surprise Me A different craft every time. Never the same one twice running. Surprise

How it works

Three steps. No training.

  1. 01

    Write the headline

    Short: that’s what flies. Put the long version in the details, which open when you click. Set it once, every day, weekdays, or every week.

  2. 02

    It flies at the time you set

    It crosses the second fifth of your screen by default, taking about 13 seconds edge to edge. Pick any of the five bands, either direction, and a pace from 5 to 30 seconds.

  3. 03

    Click it, or don’t

    Click the banner to view it, snooze it for 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or dismiss it. If you ignore it for five minutes, it lands in Notification Center and waits there.

Instrument panel

Light enough to forget it’s running.

App CPU while a banner flies
0.06%

Measured, not estimated. The animation runs in macOS’s own compositor, so the app sits idle while the train rolls by.

Edge to edge
13s

The default pace, scaled to your display’s width so it looks the same on a laptop and an ultrawide.

Then it lands
5min

After that it stops looping and hands off to Notification Center. It won’t nag forever.

Accounts, servers, trackers
0

Your reminders are a file on your Mac. The app contains no networking code.

Ways to fly
12

Eleven styles plus Surprise Me. Set a default, and override it per reminder.

Also on board
  • Lives in the menu bar. No Dock icon.
  • Works over full-screen apps and every Space
  • Launch at login
  • Signed and notarized by Apple
  • Built natively for macOS 26

Clear skies
ahead.

Remdrift is in private testing on macOS 26 and landing soon. Until then, you can launch as many banners on this page as you like.