Tic
To-do lists that live on your desktop, not in a menu bar
Details
- External ID
- 1250183
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tic
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Task Management
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Tic is a free, open-source Mac app that keeps your to-do lists on the desktop as floating sticky notes, with subtasks, Markdown and keyboard shortcuts.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop to-do lists for personal productivity
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward desktop to-do application featuring floating sticky notes, Markdown support, and local storage, easily built using SwiftUI or Electron/Tauri.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 216 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 217 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
- An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction · hn · 2026-08-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Driftpad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- NearKit · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Just a Pause · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Lucid Notes · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Calerto for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Flotnote · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- PasteNote · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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