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CLUSTER BAR-MACOS-MENU-9 · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-05

macOS menu bar time trackers

These are macOS menu bar apps for tracking time spent on projects, tasks, or sessions. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. On traction, ambient-context leads with 172 stars, followed by vibebar (45) and launchboard (7).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 7OCT 2026: 4
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 11 unlabelled

Operator · 10 hobby · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ambient-context172★1 mo—Desktop menu bar app that automatically records a written log of what the user worked on.
  2. 02launchboard7★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar dashboard that displays background job status, schedules, and recent output for local processes.
  3. 03local-time-tracker-macos1★5 dayslivehobbyLocal macOS time tracker that runs in the background, sorts time into projects, and shows how much work is AI-assisted.
  4. 04time-it0★8 days—hobbyMenu-bar time tracking app that records work sessions, organizes them by category, and shows reports with charts and CSV export.
  5. 05takt0★3 dayslivehobbyNative macOS menu bar time tracker that runs parallel timers and books entries to Azure DevOps.
  6. 06TOM0★16 dayslivehand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that tracks time spent on projects and folders, with charts, idle detection, and CSV export.
  7. 07Tally-Bar0★15 days—hobbyMenu bar time tracker for macOS that records named work sessions, shows daily totals and history, and exports times to CSV.
  8. 08google-tasks-client0★16 days—hobbyMac menu bar app that displays Google Tasks due today and tracks completion progress with a ring and confetti.
  9. 09timewent0★8 days—hobbymacOS app that automatically tracks time spent on activities and shows where time went without timers or labels.
  10. 10Polaris1★28 days—hobbyMenu bar app that tracks weekly, monthly, yearly, and long-term goals with inline subtasks and optional Apple Reminders sync.
  11. 11Outatime0★22 days—hand-codedmacOS menu bar app that tracks work, break, lunch, and extra hours with a simple timer and calendar-style logbook.
  12. 12traggo-swiftbar1★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar plugin that starts and stops Traggo time tracking per project and shows daily totals.
  13. 13sober-app0★1 mo—Desktop menu-bar app for macOS that tracks sobriety with streaks, savings, sleep, mood, and journaling locally.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.