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24 alternatives to Instant for Mac
A menu bar app to track the daily time spent on your Mac
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Instant for Mac launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Track the time you spend on websites in your Mac Menubar 🕑🌏💻
2018 · its alternatives →
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Progress Bar OSX▲644This is your life and it's ending ⏳ one minute at a time
2018 · progressbarosx.com · its alternatives →
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Free mac menubar app for getting things done
2018 · 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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Hotlist▲148Manage your daily todos straight from your Mac menu bar
2023 · pqina.nl · its alternatives →
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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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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 · its alternatives →
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Instant for iOS▲189Your life on a dashboard. Track all activities automaticall…
2015 · its alternatives →
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