when real stuff gets done

Around everything you've already committed to on your calendar, there's open time that's still yours.
DayGaps helps you name, plan, and use the gaps effectively.

See it quiet down

Your whole day, then just the part you're in.

Try me This Today view is live. Click a gap header to focus it, the rest of the day steps back. Tap a chip to filter the tasks.

Today

Carried over 1 item
Outline the methods section #methodsSoil carbon paper · 2 days ago
10:30 – 12:00·Before seminar
Skim the shared draftLab
1:00 – 3:30·Writing
Draft results, section 3 #methodsSoil carbon paper
Re-run figure 2Soil carbon paper
Anytime
Reply to a studentSeminar
Send the reviewer replyResubmissionToday
Gap Focus Mode Capture to Inbox

Nothing is deleted; the rest of the day just steps back.

However you work

It bends to your process, not the other way around.

Time-block, Pomodoro, GTD, or pure improvisation. DayGaps holds whichever you bring, and lets it change from one project or one day to the next. It stays out of the way, so the only thing in front of you is the stuff that needs doing.

9:00 – 10:30 AM·Morning writing
Draft section 3

When you'll do it.

Drop a task into a day and a gap; it lands in Today, right where you meant to do it.

2:00 – 3:00 PM·Weekly sync
Raise the timeline slip

A gap inside a meeting.

Fill it with the points you want to raise. On a shared project, that gap becomes everyone's agenda.

31:52  CodingFri July 24, 2026

A timer, if you want it.

Time a gap, or let it count down the minutes left in it, from the menu bar.

Capture now, sort later.

One Add to Inbox button in the same spot on every screen. File it into a project later, and your note travels with the task.

Share a project.

Hand a project to a collaborator over iCloud. The plan is shared; each person's schedule stays their own.

Run it with your AI.

Open the bridge and hand your plans to the assistant of your choice, as plain text you fully control.

And on your phone

The same gaps follow you off the desk.

The iPhone app reads the same iCloud zone as the Mac, so the day in your pocket is the day on your desk. Open it between meetings or on the walk to lunch. The Today view is right there, the inbox is one tap away, and the gestures match the way the day actually changes.

Tap to mark a task done. One swipe sets a due date. The other opens reschedule, where a new day and a new gap are one motion. The vocabulary is the same in Today, in This Week, and inside a project. See the phone in more detail.

11:47

Today

DUE 1
RESEARCH
#methods#stats
Carried over
Outline the methods sectionSoil carbon paper
1:00 PM·Writing
Draft results, section 3 #methodsSoil carbon paper
Send the reviewer replyResubmissionToday
Anytime
Reply to a studentSeminar
Gap Expand Inbox

DayGaps computes the shape of your time. What fills it, and what it costs you, stays yours to judge.

Private by architecture

Your data lives in your iCloud. Nowhere else.

Your areas, projects, and days sync between your devices through your own private iCloud zone. There are no DayGaps servers, no account to create, and no analytics watching you work. The privacy page is short because there is nothing to disclose.

And when you want your plans as text, the bridge writes them to a folder as plain YAML: readable in any editor, diffable in git, and ready to hand to the AI assistant of your choice. The app is meant to be operated with an AI, on your terms.

date: 2026-05-15

gaps:
  - time: "07:30"
    label: Morning focus

  - time: "10:00"
    label: Before lab meeting

  - time: "15:00"
    label: Afternoon writing

  - time: "21:00"
    label: Evening proposal
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DayGaps is a task manager for Mac and iPhone, in private beta.

Native apps. Universal binary on the Mac (macOS 14+). iPhone via TestFlight (iOS 17+).

One-time purchase when v1.0 ships. All 1.x updates included, and there is no subscription to manage.

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