Up Next
Your day, always on screen.
A real macOS window that floats above whatever you are working in, showing what is coming and what you still owe people. Nothing to open. Nothing to go and check.
The widget, drawn to scale. Nobody’s real diary was harmed.
Why not just use the menu bar?
Most calendar apps for the Mac live behind a click. They put an icon up top, and you find out what is next by going and asking. That works right until you are concentrating, which is exactly when it stops working.
It is a window, not a menu
A real panel on the monitor you choose, floating above full-screen apps and present on every Space. It never takes focus, so it cannot interrupt what you are typing.
Your TODO list lives beside it
Tasks sit under the day, added from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut, and roll forward to tomorrow when you do not get to them. One glance covers both halves of being on top of your day.
Built for screen sharing
Privacy mode blanks every meeting and task title before you present, and the widget can withhold itself from screen capture entirely.
It talks to nobody
No server, no account, no analytics, no telemetry. Just your Mac and Google, over read-only access it could not use to change anything if it wanted to.
Install
With Homebrew:
brew tap edspressomartini/tap
brew trust edspressomartini/tap
brew install --cask up-nextWithout it, download the latest DMG and drag Up Next to your Applications folder. Homebrew is only worth it for the upgrades; the app is identical either way.
macOS will refuse to open it the first time. After it is blocked, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You will have to do this once per version, including after an upgrade.
This is because the project has no Apple Developer Program membership, so builds are signed but not notarised by Apple. The security overview explains exactly what that does and does not mean, and how to check the download yourself before trusting it. On a Mac managed by your employer the override may be unavailable, in which case your IT team has to allow the app.
The rest of it
Counts down in the menu bar
The next meeting and how long you have, with no Dock icon cluttering things up. It can show only the countdown if the titles are nobody else’s business.
Two accounts at once
Work and personal side by side, or merged into a single stream. Your choice.
Gets you into the call
A nudge shortly before a meeting starts, and one click to open the link.
Reads almost nothing
Your events and your list of calendars. No Gmail, no Drive, no Contacts, and no ability to create, edit or delete anything. See the privacy policy.