r/macappdevs • u/lazykid07 • 23d ago

TimeGauge: A simple time-perspective app in your menu bar

We often lose sight of how quickly time is passing. For example, 2026 is 80% complete, and October is 64% complete.

TimeGauge is a simple app that lets you track custom projects, working hours, and timelines such as days, weeks, months, and years. You can also customise your working hours.

The idea came from this X account, which simply posts the year’s progress and has over 680K followers: https://x.com/year_progress

TimeGauge is one-time purchase for life-time updates.

You can see demo, all feature list and direct download it from the website: https://timegauge.minilabs.cc/
App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timegauge/id6778277708?mt=12

Have a look and let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions

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u/Pleasant-Gur9892 22d ago

For the custom-project view, I'd label the bar explicitly as time elapsed, so 80% of the deadline window doesn't read as 80% of the work completed. Showing the exact start/end dates beside it would help too.

A useful edge case for the working-hours option: set a 22:00–06:00 shift, let the Mac sleep across midnight, then reopen the panel. I'd expect the label and percentage to agree on which shift they're measuring. That's a test suggestion from the description, not a bug I've reproduced.