Appreciate

Customizable reminder overlays for your screen.

A tiny app that periodically flashes reminders across your screen — with built-in packs like Sensory, Actualism Method, Richard's Journal, and more. Create your own packs or edit existing ones. All styling is randomized so you never tune it out.

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Notice the play of light and shadow around you

Feel the texture of what your hands are touching

Why Appreciate?

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Screen Overlay

Appears directly on your desktop as transparent text — not a notification you swipe away.

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Anti-Habituation

Timing, position, color, font, animation style are all randomized so you never tune it out.

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Multi-Monitor

Appears on all screens simultaneously on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Reminder Packs

Built-in packs for sensory awareness, actualism, and more. Create your own or edit existing ones.

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Lightweight

Native on every platform — Swift on macOS, Kotlin on Android, C# on Windows, Python+GTK on Linux. No Electron.

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Launch at Startup

Set it once, forget it. Runs silently in the background from boot.

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Voice Mode

Automatically speaks reminders via TTS when headphones are connected. Randomized rate, pitch, and voice so you don't tune it out. (Android)

Available On

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macOS

Menubar app. Download the DMG or build from source with Swift.

Download DMG

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Android

Foreground service with overlay. Includes screensaver for Always On Display and voice mode for headphones. Download the APK directly.

Download APK

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Windows experimental

System tray app built with WPF/.NET 8. Single executable.

Download EXE

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Linux beta

Python + GTK4. Install via Nix or download the AppImage — runs on any Linux distro.

Download x86_64 Download ARM

nix run github:srid/Appreciate