# Barrie

> Barrie is a menu bar companion to Apple Reminders for macOS. It is not a separate to-do app: it reads and writes the same reminders database Reminders.app uses, so everything a user sees or adds in Barrie is a real Apple reminder in their real lists, on all their devices via iCloud.

## Facts

- Site: https://getbarrie.com/ (single page; this is the canonical URL).
- Made by: Davey Heuser — https://daveyheuser.com. Support: daveyheuser@gmail.com.
- Platform: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Apple Intelligence parsing upgrade requires macOS 26+.
- Price: €7.50, one-time purchase. No subscription, no trial, no account.
- Checkout: https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_V1mwwx3lJdHXHyargne8I1r7JNRLih3CibHoA0CoG7W (Polar is the merchant of record; a license key is emailed after purchase and activated in-app).
- Download: delivered by Polar after purchase. The site hosts no downloads.
- Updates: in-app via Sparkle 2, EdDSA-signed, free. The update feed at https://daveyheuser.com/barrie/appcast.xml is for the built-in updater only, not a download source.
- Privacy: no account, no server; data lives in Apple's Reminders (EventKit) database and the user's iCloud.

## Features

- Live menu bar counts (configurable slots: overdue, due today, due now, next 7 days, all incomplete, and more; collapses to a checkmark when clear).
- "Done today" section: reminders completed today stay visible in the panel, so finishing work is legible at a glance rather than disappearing.
- Global-hotkey panel that never steals focus; drag to pin, press-and-hold to unpin; resizable from its edges.
- Keyboard-first: type to filter, Space completes, Enter edits inline, Cmd+Delete deletes.
- Natural-language quick add previewed live as chips: dates ("tomorrow 17:00"), locations ("@Albert Heijn" becomes a real geofence with radius and arrive/leave triggers; quotes end a place name, so @"PostNL" on the way home keeps the rest in the title), priority (!, !!, !!!), list targeting (#work), semicolon batches ("milk; call mom").
- "Add to Barrie" macOS Service: capture selected text from any app into up to ten editable to-dos.
- Quick add languages: English and Dutch fully tested; German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Romanian, Croatian, Greek, Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Swahili drafted.

## Origin

Built by the author for his own ADHD: other to-do apps required migrating to a new system that he would abandon within weeks, so Barrie layers onto Apple Reminders instead of replacing it, and makes completion visible (menu bar count, Done today, checkmark on an empty day) rather than only capture.

## Links

- [Barrie](https://getbarrie.com/): the single-page site — features, FAQ, and checkout.
- [Buy Barrie](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_V1mwwx3lJdHXHyargne8I1r7JNRLih3CibHoA0CoG7W): Polar checkout, €7.50 one-time.
- [Davey Heuser](https://daveyheuser.com): the author's site.

## Author

Made by Davey Heuser — https://daveyheuser.com