Pling
A tiny Retro Game styled tally counter for your Mac menu bar
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Count anything from your Mac's menu bar. One click or one hotkey: the pixel digits flip, the coin chimes, the number goes up. Other habit apps want to coach you. Pling just wants to count. No account, no subscription, no streak to break. Free.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 312 launches in macos menu bar utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes A menu-bar tally counter with a pixel-style display, sound, and hotkey is a small native macOS app. A solo builder can vibe-code it in SwiftUI or AppKit within days.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 467 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 468 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
- Counto · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Online Counter · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Tally Counter App for Wear OS · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- apple_counting · github · 2026-10-01 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Counter Pro · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FelixCal · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar · hn · 2026-09-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MacOS Neat Menubar Calendar · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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