Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I made a macOS app to save your apps for later
Later is a Mac menu bar app that helps you save and restore your workspace. It helps you switch off from work, prepare for Zoom meetings, save battery, and more.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a macOS app to save your apps for later launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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One Thing▲138Put a single task or goal in your Mac's menu bar
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Free mac menubar app for getting things done
2018 · its alternatives →
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Effortless▲487Stay focused and beat procrastination on your Mac.
2018 · effortless.app · its alternatives →
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Create quick reminders with presets
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Instant for Mac▲132A menu bar app to track the daily time spent on your Mac
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy, gang; After almost two weeks of sitting in Apple's approval queue, my new app Timebar is finally available. I think it has a pretty innovative UI feature, so I wanted to float it by Hacker News. It's a timer app that turns your Mac's menu bar into a sort of virtual hourglass. Your menu bar starts out tinted blue (or whatever colour you pick) and it slowly drains from right-to-left until your time is up. It works very well for situations where you want to keep track of time, but don't need to be super precise. The menu bar is easy to glance up at, and it doesn't take long to happen…
2013 · whimsicalifornia.com · its alternatives →
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Gestimer▲313Lovely Mac menu bar app to create reminders w/ drag & drop
2015 · maddin.io · its alternatives →
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One Goal▲132Makes your goal more visible by showing it on the menu bar
2021 · timqian.com · its alternatives →
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ExtraBar▲152Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackle the macOS big boss: the menu bar. I spend ~40% of my day context-switching between apps — Zoom meetings, Slack channels, Code projects, and Figma designs. My macOS menu bar has too many useless icons I almost never use. So I thought to myself, how can I use this area to improve my workflows? Most solutions (Bartender, Ice) require screen recording permissions, and did not really solve my…
Dec 2025 · extrabar.app · its alternatives →
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Look Up for Mac▲269Reduce eye strain & exhaustion with the 20-20-20 Rule
2015 · 96problems.com · its alternatives →
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EasyFinder▲108Mac menu bar app to help access your important files fast
2019 · easyfinderapp.com · its alternatives →
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A one-click camera check, right from the menu bar
2020 · handmirror.app · its alternatives →
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Soon▲107A simplistic app to quickly add post-it like reminders.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SpacePigeon▲93I switch between a few different “modes” on my Mac every day (work, coding, meetings, personal stuff). Each time I’d end up reopening the same apps and dragging all the windows back into the right Spaces. Super repetitive and honestly kind of annoying. So over the past few weeks I hacked together a small open-source tool called SpacePigeon that basically remembers your whole workspace and puts everything back where it was. Things it can do: Save your current layout (apps + windows + Spaces) Restore it with one click or a hotkey Keep separate presets (like “Work”, “Coding”, “Meetings” etc.)…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Day Progress▲36Display the time remaining today in your macOS menu bar
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Fader▲90Minimize windows when you switch apps automatically
Apr 2026 · eythor.com · its alternatives →
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🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar - GitHub - leits/MeetingBar: 🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stretch It▲120A minimalist gesture timer from your Mac menu bar
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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MinuteBar▲128The minimal timer for productivity and screen sharing
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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