> ## Documentation Index
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# Cronch

> A friendly desktop task scheduler for Windows and macOS — schedule commands and scripts from your system tray, with a full run history and nothing in the cloud.

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.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/cronch/quickstart">
    Install Cronch and create your first scheduled rule.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Schedules" icon="clock" href="/cronch/schedules">
    Interval, cron and one-time runs — and catch-up for jobs missed while the machine was off.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Commands & shells" icon="terminal" href="/cronch/commands-and-shells">
    Run any command in the shell of your choice, with the right environment and an overlap policy.
  </Card>

  <Card title="History & logs" icon="clock-rotate-left" href="/cronch/history">
    Every run's output, exit code and status, with a retention window you control.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Settings & tray" icon="sliders" href="/cronch/settings">
    Launch at login, pause everything, and import or export your rules.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Privacy" icon="lock" href="/cronch/privacy">
    What Cronch stores, and why nothing ever leaves your computer.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Troubleshooting" icon="wrench" href="/cronch/troubleshooting">
    SmartScreen and Gatekeeper, missing shells, and PATH issues.
  </Card>

  <Card title="FAQ" icon="circle-question" href="/cronch/faq">
    Short answers to common questions.
  </Card>
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## 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.

<Note>
  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](/cronch/settings).
</Note>

## Free and open source

Cronch is free forever and open source, dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0. It's made by [burakov](https://burakov.net).