A tiny clock that floats above every window — even fullscreen. Fold it open for a timer and a checklist.
Download for macOS 15+Type a duration, hit start — the clock folds shut and counts down in plain sight. One shot, no cycles, no nagging.
A checklist tucked behind the clock — for the few things you mustn't forget today. Not a todo app. It doesn't want to be.
McTimey-0.1.0.zip — about 400 KB.A small always-on-top macOS widget that shows the time, and folds open into a one-shot countdown timer plus a five-item notes list. The clock comes first; the timer and notes stay tucked away until you reach for them, so what you mostly see is a clean clock sitting quietly on your desktop. It's built natively in Swift for macOS — not a web page in a wrapper — so it feels like part of the system rather than a separate program.
No, and that's deliberate. The timer is a plain one-shot countdown — set any duration from one second up to 24 hours, start it, and it runs down once. There are no fixed 25/5 work-and-break cycles, no streaks, no nudges to "stay focused." If you want a tomato timer there are plenty; McTimey is for the times you just need a timer without a whole productivity philosophy attached.
About 400 KB — the entire app downloads in well under a second on any normal connection. For comparison, that's smaller than a single photo from your phone. There's no installer, no background updater, and no extra components to fetch on first launch; what you download is the whole app.
Unzipped, McTimey.app is under 1 MB (roughly 0.9 MB) sitting in your Applications folder. To put that in perspective, you could fit more than a thousand copies of it in the space one two-hour movie takes. It doesn't scatter files around your system, and uninstalling is just dragging the app to the Trash.
Almost nothing. When McTimey is just showing the clock it uses around 50 MB of memory and effectively 0% CPU — it does one tiny update per second to move the clock forward and otherwise sits idle. There's no network activity, no background syncing, and no constant polling, so it has a negligible effect on battery life. You can leave it open all day without noticing it in your battery or your fan.
No — McTimey is completely free, with no trial, no in-app purchases, and no account to create. It requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later.
It's a menu-bar agent, so there's no Dock icon and nothing in your app switcher. The widget itself floats above your other windows on every Space (including full-screen apps), and a small stopwatch icon in the menu bar lets you show or hide it and open Preferences. You can drag it anywhere and resize it to taste.