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Cronch is a small desktop app that runs commands and scripts on a schedule, from your system tray, on Windows and macOS. Add a rule, pick a schedule and a shell, flip it on — Cronch runs it in the background and keeps a full history of every run. There’s no account and no cloud: everything stays on your machine.

Quickstart

Install Cronch and create your first scheduled rule.

Schedules

Interval, cron and one-time runs — and catch-up for jobs missed while the machine was off.

Commands & shells

Run any command in the shell of your choice, with the right environment and an overlap policy.

History & logs

Every run’s output, exit code and status, with a retention window you control.

Settings & tray

Launch at login, pause everything, and import or export your rules.

Privacy

What Cronch stores, and why nothing ever leaves your computer.

Troubleshooting

SmartScreen and Gatekeeper, missing shells, and PATH issues.

FAQ

Short answers to common questions.

What Cronch is for

Every operating system already has a scheduler, but they’re built for machines, not people — Task Scheduler’s XML, launchd plists, raw cron. Cronch is the friendly alternative: a clean window where you can see what’s scheduled, what ran, and whether it worked, on both of your platforms in the same way. Typical jobs people give it: nightly backups, periodic sync or upload scripts, a “good morning” report, cleanup tasks, anything you’d otherwise wire into cron or Task Scheduler.
Cronch is a tray-resident app: your jobs fire while it’s running. That’s why it launches at login by default — so your schedules keep running across restarts. You can turn that off in Settings.

Free and open source

Cronch is free forever and open source, dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0. It’s made by burakov.