CronMon: What runs on this Mac and when?
Every cron and launchd job on your Mac, and why it never ran
Details
- External ID
- 1254188
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CronMon: What runs on this Mac and when?
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Description
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).
Enrichment
- Theme
- startup launch and fundraising tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cron and launchd job monitor for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 266 days after the earliest competitor.
- 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
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ConfigClarity · hn · 2026-03-02 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Launch Station · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Doyouok · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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