Hi Product Hunt 👋

I built TimeBarX because every Mac timer I tried had the same flaw: to know how much time was left, I had to interrupt myself. Click a menu bar icon. Hover. Hunt for a window. Each glance is a tiny context switch and 30 of them a day burns real focus.

So I made the timer the menu bar itself.

A thin progress bar drains across the top of every connected display in real time. You don't check the time. You see it. Always. Then you get back to work.

A few things that make it different from the other timers on the App Store:

🖥 Spans every display, perfectly in sync.
One timer, four monitors, no math.
⌨️ Type it like a sentence.
25 min review PR → done. No sliders, no dropdowns.
🤖 Automation-first.
URL schemes work with Shortcuts, Alfred, and Raycast. One keystroke starts a focus block.
🔁 Survives anything.
Close the lid, restart, crash; TimeBarX saves the exact end time and resumes correctly.
🔒 Zero telemetry.
No account, no analytics, no network calls. Mac App Store sandboxed, signed, notarized.

Pricing is simple: Free forever with the full core experience (progress bar on every display, slider input, completion effects, global hotkey, restart recovery). Pro is a one-time unlock, no subscription, no account, Family Sharing supported. Pro unlocks natural language input, custom colors, transparency, automation, and every future feature on the roadmap.

🎉 Launch promo: Pro is $2.99 for the first month after release (50% off the standard $5.99). If you buy during the launch month, you keep Pro forever at no extra cost — including every future feature.

What menu bar utilities have stuck in your workflow for years? I'd love to learn what makes one survive vs. get uninstalled in a week.

Jonathan