Tock
A super-minimal, keyboard-driven macOS menu bar timer
Tock launched on January 6, 2026 with 81 votes, #427 of 14,585 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
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.
Tock is a super-minimal menu bar timer for macOS, with natural-language parsing, stopwatch mode, and configurable repeating tones.
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