todo-rust

A small, modern TODO app written in Rust, WebView and SQLite for local use, in less than 4mb!

No need to install 50gb of tools, and can be ported everywhere

• UI: wry webview inside a winit window
• Storage: SQLite via rusqlite (bundled — no system dependency)
• Theme: light and dark, auto-detected from the OS, manually toggleable (persisted)
• Icons: inline SVG only — no external fonts, icons, or network requests

Build & run

cargo run            # debug
cargo build --release # optimized, self-contained binary

The UI is embedded into the binary, so the executable is fully self-contained.

Portability

The database file (todo.db) lives outside the app, next to it, so the app and the db are the only two files you need to move:

# plain binary — db next to the executable
cp target/release/todo-rust ~/Desktop/Todo/
~/Desktop/Todo/todo-rust        # creates ~/Desktop/Todo/todo.db

# macOS app bundle — db next to the .app
cp -R Todo.app ~/Desktop/Todo/
open ~/Desktop/Todo/Todo.app    # creates ~/Desktop/Todo/todo.db

In debug builds the binary lives in target/debug/, so the db lands there too. Use a release build for a portable copy.

For a bundle installed somewhere not writable (e.g. /Applications), the app falls back to ~/Library/Application Support/Todo/todo.db. Packaging the bundle is covered in make-app.md.

Controls

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