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Alcove, called Alcove: Tasks & Notes on the App Store, is a calm to-do list, planner and notebook for Mac, iPhone and iPad, made by Basil, an independent developer. On the Mac it lives in the menu bar. Tasks, notes, boards, reminders, a calendar and widgets sit in one place and sync through your own iCloud. It runs on macOS 14 or later and on iOS and iPadOS 17.4 or later. It's free to use, and a one-time purchase of $29.99 in the US, Alcove Unlock, adds everything else on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, with no subscription.

Alcove is free to use. A one-time purchase of $29.99 in the US, Alcove Unlock, adds everything else for good on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. There's no subscription. The App Store shows the price in your local currency before you buy.

Yes. Tasks and reminders without a limit, Today, Upcoming and the calendar, quick add, the Mac menu bar, widgets, notes and the Notifications page are free for good, with three lists and three meeting recordings. There are no ads and no account. Alcove Unlock adds unlimited lists, folders and boards, iCloud sync across your devices, unlimited meeting notes, alarm reminders, Siri and Shortcuts, Speak tasks, AI assistants, files on tasks, floating windows and every theme.

Yes, 14 days of everything, whenever you want it. Alcove offers it beside the price when you reach for something the unlock covers, and from Settings; it never appears the first time you open the app. It runs on the same dates on every device signed in to your Apple Account and never turns into a charge. When it ends, Alcove goes back to the free version: your tasks and notes stay, and nothing is deleted.

Yes. Once you unlock Alcove, the people in your Family Sharing group get it too, on their own devices and with their own lists, at no extra cost.

Alcove is sold through the App Store, so Apple handles refunds. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in with your Apple Account and choose Request a refund.

Mac with macOS 14 or later, and iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17.4 or later. Control Center controls need iOS 18, and meeting notes need macOS 26 or iOS and iPadOS 26.

No, there's no Alcove account. With Alcove Unlock, Alcove syncs through the iCloud account already on your devices, and the trial and the unlock go through your Apple Account on the App Store. Without sync it works on one device, with your tasks kept on it.

Yes. Files and pictures you attach to a task or put in a note go through your private iCloud along with everything else, and open on your other devices. A file larger than the limit in Settings (50 MB unless you change it) stays linked on the device you added it on. See attachments on every device.

No. Alcove is built for one person: your lists stay in step across your own Mac, iPhone and iPad, but you can't share a list or assign a task to someone else. For a shared shopping or family list, use an app made for sharing; the Mac to-do app comparison shows which ones share lists. With Family Sharing, the people in your family group each get Alcove with their own lists.

Yes, though there's no one-click import. Copy the tasks from the other app and paste them into an Alcove note as a checklist (a checklist copied from another app arrives as one), then turn each line you want to keep into a task. On the Mac you can also switch on Alcove's MCP server and ask an AI assistant you approve to recreate them, for example from a CSV file exported from Todoist. See moving your tasks across from Todoist and moving your Reminders lists.

Yes. Press Record, and when you stop, Alcove saves a note with the recording, the transcript with who said what, and a summary with the decisions and action items. On the Mac it hears your microphone and the call, so it works with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or any call app, with no bot joining; on iPhone and iPad it records the room. Speech is transcribed on your device, Indian languages included. It needs macOS 26 or iOS and iPadOS 26 or later, and the summary needs Apple Intelligence. See meeting notes on Mac and iPhone.

Yes. The Notifications page lists the reminders that went off in the last 30 days and what became of each task, done, still open or moved, beside anything that slipped past its date and what is about to ring. It is in the Mac's sidebar, and behind the bell on Today on iPhone and iPad.

Nothing until you switch the feature on and approve that assistant. You choose read, create, update or delete, and every request appears in the activity log.

No. Progress shows what you finished, what you added and what's waiting. It won't grade you.