Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar
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HN · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: focus and countdown timer apps · 195 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 195 launches in focus and countdown timer apps →
Could you build this?
Yes Timebar is a minimalist macOS utility that visualizes a countdown timer as a thin horizontal progress bar below the menu bar. This can be built in a weekend with Swift and standard AppKit window overlay APIs using an AI coding assistant.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: tmr
Feature requests: Integration with tmr Emacs package
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 746 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #368 of 747 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- ratio · github · 2026-09-13 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- sigstop · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- onit · github · 2026-10-29 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MacOS Neat Menubar Calendar · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ellipsis · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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