Your macOS menu bar, supercharged — tasks, focus, a lunar calendar, on-device AI music, and local translation, all in one tiny private app.
日行 · RiXing lives in your macOS menu bar and quietly handles the small, daily things — your tasks, a focus timer, today's date with the Chinese lunar calendar, and ambient AI that helps you stay in flow. No Dock icon, no window clutter, no cloud. One click or a global hotkey brings it up from anywhere; everything else runs on your Mac.
- 🔒 Private by default — your to-dos and settings live as plain JSON in your iCloud Drive, and the AI runs on your Mac. No accounts, no telemetry, no servers. Ever.
- 🤖 Real AI, no API keys — generative focus music (Magenta RealTime 2) and 8-language translation run entirely on-device via Apple Silicon. Zero subscriptions, zero usage fees.
- 🪶 Tiny & native — under 6 MB, sits in the menu bar, and feels like part of macOS. Built with Tauri v2 + Rust, not a browser in a box.
- 🧩 One app, many jobs — tasks, pomodoro, calendar, anniversaries, split-screen, and keep-awake. Stop juggling a dozen single-purpose utilities.
- 🎵 On-device AI music — 轻听 (QingTing) — real-time generative focus music powered by Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2) running locally via MLX on Apple Silicon. Pick a preset (vibe / genre / instrument) or write your own prompt, toggle drums, set the volume — the music streams endlessly and switches style on the fly. First launch auto-installs the Python env + model (from HuggingFace, with an
hf-mirror.comfallback so downloads are fast in China). - 🌐 On-device translation — a local HY-MT model (~1.1 GB gguf, runs via
llama.cpp) translates between 8 languages without leaving the app.⌘⇧Ypops the translate panel; everything runs on your CPU/GPU, no cloud. - ✅ Frictionless to-dos — group by category / priority / time, inline editing, one-tap status, and an Achievements view with a completion trend chart.
- 🍅 Built-in Pomodoro — turn any task into a focus session; the capsule timer floats above full-screen apps.
- 📅 Lunar calendar with anniversary countdowns — solar + lunar days, public holidays and 休/班 (rest/work) badges, today highlighted, plus a 倒计时 (countdown) panel that counts down to the important dates you set (birthdays, deadlines…) and flags the soon ones in red.
- 🧷 Menu-bar native — two tray icons (to-do + calendar). Left-click pops the window directly under the icon; right-click opens the menu. No Dock icon (accessory app).
- 🪟 Split screen — snap the active window of any app to the left/right half, maximize, or restore it — with customizable hotkeys (default
⌘⌃ + arrows) and an adjustable gap. Requires macOS Accessibility permission. - 🛡️ Keep Awake — prevent your Mac from sleeping or dimming the screen with a timer; auto-restores when the time is up.
- ⌨️ Customizable global hotkeys — set your own shortcut for the to-do window (
⌘⇧Udefault) and the snap shortcuts in Settings. - 🌗 Light / dark / follow-system theme, synced across every window.
- 🌍 8 languages — 简体中文, English, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Français, Deutsch, Русский. Tray labels and menus switch too.
- 🚀 Launch at login — enable from Settings.
| To-dos | Calendar |
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| Dark mode | Settings · General |
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| Focus Music · 轻听 | Translation |
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| Anniversaries · 倒计时 | Split Screen · Tiling |
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| Keep Awake | About |
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Grab the latest .dmg from the Releases page, open it, and drag 日行.app to Applications.
# Prerequisites: Rust (https://rustup.rs) and the Tauri CLI
cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2.0"
git clone https://github.com/polimao/rixing.git
cd rixing
cargo tauri build # Chinese edition → product name 「日行」
# International edition → product name "RiXing"
cargo tauri build --config src-tauri/tauri.international.conf.json
# both → src-tauri/target/release/bundle/{dmg,macos}/RiXing is built with Tauri v2 (a Rust backend + a thin native webview) instead of bundling a full browser engine, so the .dmg is ~5.3 MB and the app uses a fraction of the memory of an Electron app. The AI models are downloaded on first use and cached locally — they're never counted in the app size.
| Shortcut | Action |
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⌘ ⌃ ← |
Left half of the current screen |
⌘ ⌃ → |
Right half |
⌘ ⌃ ↑ |
Maximize (fill the screen) |
⌘ ⌃ ↓ |
Restore the previous size |
All four are user-rebindable.
The frontend is plain static HTML/CSS/JS (no build step); the backend is Rust.
cargo tauri dev # run with hot-reload of the Rust side
# or: pnpm dev / pnpm build (aliases for the cargo tauri commands)Everything stays on your machine. To-dos and settings are stored as JSON — in iCloud Drive when it's enabled (so your Macs stay in sync), otherwise in a local App Support folder:
# iCloud Drive enabled:
~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Rixing/.todos_data.json
~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Rixing/.todos_settings.json
# iCloud Drive off:
~/Library/Application Support/com.limao.rixing/.todos_data.json
~/Library/Application Support/com.limao.rixing/.todos_settings.json
No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry.
The translation and QingTing music features run their AI models entirely on-device after a one-time download:
- Translation — the HY-MT gguf model (~1.1 GB) is fetched from HuggingFace on first use and cached under the app's data dir (iCloud Drive / App Support, same as your to-dos).
- QingTing — the MRT2 model (~0.5 GB) plus a small
uv-managed Python env are fetched on first launch and cached under~/Documents/Magenta/magenta-rt-v2/.
Both auto-fall back to hf-mirror.com when the HuggingFace main site is slow/unreachable. After the initial download, inference is 100% local — no audio, text, or to-do data ever leaves your Mac.
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