A super-minimal, keyboard-driven macOS menu bar timer
Tock is a lightweight macOS menu bar timer built for keyboard-first workflows. It lives in the menu bar, supports natural-language time entry, and intentionally limits you to a single active timer. No dashboards, queues, or upsells. Tock uses macOS system colors, adapting to light and dark mode and modern system materials like Liquid Glass. It is free and open source, with configurable shortcuts, tones, notifications, and interface details like button size and brightness.
Hey Product Hunt — I built Tock after Apple deprecated their native menu bar timer.
macOS used to support a Spotlight-launched timer that lived in the menu bar. It was obscure and limited, but it worked. In macOS 26.2, the menu bar feedback was removed, leaving no visible confirmation unless you opened Clock.
I looked for third-party replacements. Many were either too minimal (purely tactile controls) or lacked real keyboard support. Others focused on time tracking or gated basic features behind paywalls.
So I built Tock: a lightweight, keyboard-first menu bar timer with natural-language input, a single active timer, and no dashboards or upsells. It adapts to macOS appearance using system colors and is free and open source.
Hey Product Hunt — I built Tock after Apple deprecated their native menu bar timer.
macOS used to support a Spotlight-launched timer that lived in the menu bar. It was obscure and limited, but it worked. In macOS 26.2, the menu bar feedback was removed, leaving no visible confirmation unless you opened Clock.
I looked for third-party replacements. Many were either too minimal (purely tactile controls) or lacked real keyboard support. Others focused on time tracking or gated basic features behind paywalls.
So I built Tock: a lightweight, keyboard-first menu bar timer with natural-language input, a single active timer, and no dashboards or upsells. It adapts to macOS appearance using system colors and is free and open source.
Happy to answer questions or hear feedback.