CronMon: What runs on this Mac and when?
Every cron and launchd job on your Mac, and why it never ran
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A macOS menu bar app that lists every cron job and scheduled launchd agent with the next run in plain English, a 24-hour timeline, honest run history, and a diagnosis when a job never fires (wrong PATH, no Full Disk Access, output mailed to nowhere).
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Developer Tools
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial A menu bar wrapper is simple, but safely parsing launchd domain targets, system/user daemons, plists, crontabs, and diagnosing macOS permission errors requires macOS systems knowledge.
What it would actually take: A native Swift menu bar application running via SwiftUI/AppKit that interacts with launchctl, reads launchd service plists across /Library and ~/Library, and parses crontabs. The difficult part is system diagnostics: inspecting SIP/TCC Full Disk Access permissions, parsing ASL/unified system logs (os_log) to deduce silent failures, and accurately predicting next runtimes across custom launchd intervals. Requires specialized knowledge of macOS system administration and daemons.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #184 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 266 days after the earliest competitor.
- CronEngine · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- CronWatch · ph · 2026-10-06 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- CronBeat · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- CronPulser · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- LaunchMon · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Cronhq · ph · 2026-09-21 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Samast Cron · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Vivere · Know your jobs are alive · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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