topicradar

The status sets itself. Give a task a due date and the topic changes color when it needs you. No account, no cloud, no subscription — one purchase, every Apple device.

The status sets itself. That's the whole idea.

Most apps ask you to remember what matters. topicradar works it out for you: every topic carries a live status calculated from its own tasks and milestones. A task falls due — the topic changes color. Nothing to maintain, nothing to forget.

THE PROBLEM IT SOLVES

You're not running one project. You're running fifteen at once — the kitchen renovation, the performance review, the tax return, the trip in September, the thing your landlord still hasn't answered. Each one trivial on its own. Together, impossible to hold in your head.

A to-do list hands you 200 items with no sense of what's urgent. A project tool asks you to maintain boards you'll abandon within a week. topicradar sits one level above both: a single screen answering one question — what needs me today?

A STATUS YOU NEVER SET

Every topic is color-coded automatically:

Today — something is due right now Tomorrow / Day After — you can see it coming Active — work in progress, no pressure yet Waiting — blocked on someone else's reply Quiet — nothing to do, but the topic stays on your radar

There is no status dropdown. It's derived from your data, always current, and it can't quietly go stale.

TOPICS DON'T DISAPPEAR

A task app forgets a topic the moment its last item is checked off. topicradar doesn't. A quiet topic stays visible — dimmed, but there — so the thing you haven't thought about in six weeks still gets a second of your attention every morning.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Topics and subtopics for anything that runs longer than a day • Tasks with due dates, drag-to-sort, and a "waiting" state for what's stuck with other people • Milestones for the dates that actually matter • Calendar view across every milestone you have • Today view — everything due, from every topic, on one screen • Inbox — capture a thought now, file it later • Markdown notes per topic for context, links and decisions • Weekly review — what you actually finished in the last 7 days • Snooze a topic until a date you choose • Notifications when something comes due • Search across topics and tasks • Light and dark mode, English and German

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT

No account. No sign-up. No server. Your data lives in a file on your device and syncs between your own Apple devices through your private iCloud — never through anyone else's. Nothing is collected, because there is nothing to collect.

ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION

Try everything free for 7 days. After that a single one-time purchase unlocks the app permanently — iPhone, iPad and Mac together, not once per device. No monthly fee, no tiers, no upsell.

WHO IT'S FOR

People with too many parallel commitments and no ambition to become a productivity hobbyist. If every system you've tried collapsed the moment you stopped maintaining it, this is the calmer layer you were missing — because there's nothing here to maintain.

topicradar came out of a real problem: too many topics, not enough overview. It's the app I needed myself.