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24 alternatives to buffertime

Make Buffer schedules with ease

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. buffertime launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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FlowTime▲72
A Pomodoro-driven timer for Chrome
2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
2
Buffer Time by Reclaim▲84
Smart calendar buffers for Zoom fatigue.
2020 · reclaim.ai · its alternatives →
3
Async tasks in 350 lines of C▲146
Tasks are a primitive for asynchronous programming and an alternative to working with threads directly. Instead of creating a thread, performing work, then waiting on it using synchronization primitives, you only define a unit of work and let a scheduler decide when and where to execute it. The threads that the scheduler uses are created once and reused for many tasks throughout the program's lifetime. In most cases, creating and executing a task requires not even a single syscall and is a significantly faster operation than creating a thread, resulting in lower latency. Furthermore, tasks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
4
Code Podcast 3: Concurrency – Event Loop & Coroutines▲54
Concurrency in UIKits, browsers and web servers
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
5AA
An API for scheduling queue messages▲5
2020 · schedulerapi.com · its alternatives →
6
WeTime▲73
Easy Scheduling on mobile
2014 · its alternatives →
7UA
USched – A command-line scheduler with a “natural” language and an API▲9
2015 · usched.org · its alternatives →
8
I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups▲49
A cross-language, zero-copy coroutine observability framework based on the cTP shared-memory protocol, utilizing lock-free ring buffers for ultra-low overhead state tracing. - lixiasky-back/coroTracer
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
9
Simple Lock-Free Queue in C▲5
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
10CF
Conduit for C++: Lazy Sequences Using the Coroutine TS▲7
2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
11AA
An API schedule reminders▲5
2017 · reminders.company · its alternatives →
12
The fastest way to run Node code on a schedule▲9
2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
13
Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
14VC
virtual-clock.js – adjustable timekeeping for simulations/games/etc▲7
2017 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
15
Scar – A programming language for easy concurrency and parallelism▲7
2025 · scarlang.pages.dev · its alternatives →
16IB
I built inthing.io, realtime streams with a Python / REST API▲8
2016 · willmcgugan.com · its alternatives →
17AP
A Pomodoro Timer built on the Yo API▲7
2014 · pomodoryo.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
18
MeetingBuffer.com▲6
Automatically add buffers to your calender meetings
Jan 2026 · meetingbuffer.com · its alternatives →
19HB
Heap-Based Quicksort, Visualized▲7
2014 · quicksort-heap.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
20
A REPL for practising bitwise operations, written in Rust▲5
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Optimal Timing Tool by Buffer▲6
Discover the best times to share content on social media.
2015 · buffer.com · its alternatives →
22IM
I made calling WebAssembly from Python 25x times Faster▲5
I found a serious bottleneck in Python binding of Wasmer and Wasmtime and I found a trick to make 25x faster. Then beat all that using NumPy.
2023 · medium.com · its alternatives →
23BU
Break up any API's latency into component latencies▲5
2017 · wheresthelatency.com · its alternatives →
24CT
Clean Timer – A clean and simple timer app▲7
2018 · cleantimer.io · its alternatives →

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