Perch

What Perch does

Perch is a native Mac app that keeps tasks, notes, focus timers and today's calendar events in the notch. Hover over the notch and it opens, or press Option-N to open it from the keyboard. Tasks are typed the way you would say them: "water plants friday at 9am #home" lands on Friday, with a 9am reminder, in the Home project. Around them sit a week view with the Inbox beside the next 14 days, a notepad for each day, focus timers that stay beside the notch while the panel is closed, and reminders that open in the notch with a snooze and a Done button. Clips keeps recently copied text, images and files ready to drag into another app, and never saves what a password manager marks as private. A local MCP server lets Claude Code, the Claude app and Cursor read and add tasks, set reminders, write notes and run the timer, and on macOS 26 Apple Intelligence suggests a priority and project on the device. Perch makes no network requests and has no account or analytics. It is SwiftUI inside an AppKit panel with no dependencies, open source under the MIT license, and version 0.1 is a pre-release.

Features

• ·Tasks typed the way you say them: "water plants friday at 9am #home" sets the day, reminder and project
• ·Opens when you hover over the notch, or with Option-N from the keyboard
• ·Focus timers and due reminders show beside the notch while the panel is closed
• ·Local MCP server with 15 tools for Claude Code, the Claude app and Cursor
• ·No network requests, no account and no analytics
• ·SwiftUI in an AppKit panel with no dependencies, using about 32 MB of memory at idle