--- title: "Is there an Apple Reminders app for Windows?" description: "No — Apple has never shipped Reminders for Windows, and iCloud for Windows doesn't include it. Here's what actually works, and what to use instead." canonical: https://taskpocket.io/answers/is-there-an-apple-reminders-app-for-windows/ lastUpdated: 2026-08-26 --- 1. [Home](https://taskpocket.io/) 2. [Answers](https://taskpocket.io/answers/) 3. Apple Reminders on Windows # Is there an Apple Reminders app for Windows? No. Apple has never released a Reminders app for Windows, and installing iCloud for Windows will not give you one — it covers Photos, iCloud Drive, Calendars, Contacts, Passwords and Bookmarks, but not Reminders. The only route Apple supports from a PC is iCloud.com in a browser. By [Bohdan Stefaniuk](https://taskpocket.io/about/) Last updated 2026-08-26 ## What iCloud for Windows actually gives you iCloud for Windows is a real app and it does real work. Apple's own user guide lists what it covers: iCloud Photos and Shared Albums, iCloud Drive, Calendars and Contacts through Outlook, iCloud Passwords, and Safari bookmarks in a browser on the PC. Reminders is not on that list, and it is not an omission from the documentation. Apple states it directly: “You can't see iCloud reminders in Outlook when using iCloud for Windows on your PC.” If you have been through the installer looking for a checkbox, that is why there isn't one. ## The iCloud.com workaround, and where it stops There is a Reminders web app, and it is the answer Apple gives. Sign in at iCloud.com in any browser on Windows and you get your lists, your reminders, tags, due dates, subtasks and completion — synced with your iPhone. Plenty of people run their whole PC half of the day this way, and if all you need is to tick things off during work hours it is genuinely fine. What it is not is an app. It needs a connection, so nothing works on a train or on a flaky hotel network. There is no global keyboard shortcut, no capture from outside the browser, and no notification unless the tab is open. And it is a place you have to remember to go to, which is exactly the friction Reminders removes on an iPhone. ## Why Apple is unlikely to ship this Apple does not ship its productivity apps for Windows or Android, and iCloud for Windows exists to serve people who own Apple hardware and also use a PC — not to make the apps cross-platform. Reminders is a reason to keep an iPhone. Treat this as the shape of the product rather than an oversight that is about to be corrected. ## What to use instead If the PC is where you actually work, the honest move is a task manager that treats the browser as a real client rather than a fallback. TaskPocket is one: it runs in any browser on Windows, Linux or ChromeOS and on iPhone, with the same list in both places, a separate start date and deadline, and repeats that can anchor to the day you finish a task rather than the day it was due. Be clear about what you would be giving up, because it is not nothing: no Siri capture, no Lock Screen widget, no location-based reminders, and no notifications at all — TaskPocket has none yet, on any platform. Reminders is better than almost anything at getting a thought out of your head in two seconds. A common and sensible arrangement is to keep capturing there on the phone and to plan somewhere that exists on Windows. ## Sources 1. [Apple — Update the Reminders app in iOS 13 or later (on iCloud for Windows and iCloud.com)](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102457) checked 2026-08-26 2. [Apple — iCloud for Windows User Guide](https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/welcome/icloud) checked 2026-08-26 3. [Apple — Tag items in Reminders on iPhone](https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/tag-items-iph474a6685c/ios) checked 2026-08-26 ## Related reading - [Start dates and deadlines — two dates, two questions](https://taskpocket.io/features/start-dates-and-deadlines/) — When you plan to start and when it is actually due are different questions. Here is how the two dates work in TaskPocket, and which apps have both. - [Is there an Apple Reminders app for Android?](https://taskpocket.io/answers/is-there-an-apple-reminders-app-for-android/) — No, and there never has been. Apple ships no Android apps except Apple Music and TV. Here is the one workaround that exists, and what it costs you. - [About — why I built TaskPocket](https://taskpocket.io/about/) — Why I built TaskPocket: I moved to a Windows laptop and the task app I'd used for five years couldn't come with me. Web and iPhone today, Android next.