Day progress
Keep the current day visible as a clean percentage so planning your next block takes one glance.
macOS menu bar time progress
See time move before it slips by.
TimeGauge turns the day, month, year, your lifespan, deadlines, and personal countdowns into quiet progress bars that live where you already look: the Mac menu bar.
TimeGauge in Action
Built for awareness, not anxiety
Every timer has a job.
Month and year
Zoom out from today and see larger cycles in motion without opening a calendar or dashboard.
Custom lifespan
Input your birthdate and set a custom average lifespan to track your life's progress down to the day.
Flexible deadlines
Track important milestones by setting custom start and end dates with real-time percentage progress.
Custom countdowns
Add, edit, or remove custom countdowns for product sprints, travel, exams, habits, and launches.
Prioritize & reorder
Quickly reorder, toggle visibility, and choose which timer stays pinned in your macOS menu bar.
Ready at launch
Enable Launch at Login to start TimeGauge automatically as your Mac boots up. It starts quietly in the background.
Negligible footprint
Natively compiled in Swift. Consumes virtually zero RAM and battery power, leaving your Mac's resources untouched.
Designed for the Mac
A progress bar that stays out of the way.
TimeGauge is engineered exclusively for macOS as a lightweight, native Swift application. It operates with a negligible footprint—consuming virtually zero RAM and battery power—so your Mac's resources remain entirely dedicated to your actual work. With Launch at Login, the app starts automatically when your computer opens, keeping your time awareness seamless, uninterrupted, and local.
Native macOS preferences panel with custom ordering
Negligible memory and battery footprint (written in Swift)
Calendar date pickers for birthdate and custom deadlines
Local storage with zero servers or external tracking
Launch at login preference to start automatically
Apple App Sandbox security protecting your files
Privacy first
Your timers are yours.
TimeGauge is built on a foundation of absolute privacy. It runs entirely inside Apple's secure App Sandbox, meaning it operates in an isolated container with zero access to your files or personal data. We do not require an account, collect analytics, or transmit your configurations. Everything stays on your Mac, where it belongs.
Coming to the Mac App Store
Make time visible.
Install TimeGauge when you want a small, persistent reminder of where your time is going.