A little stopwatch for your Mac's touch bar
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Alex Zirbel

Touch Bar Timer - A little stopwatch for your Mac's touch bar

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Touch Bar Timer is a little stopwatch for your Mac’s touch bar.

Tap to start/stop

Double-tap to reset

Hold to open the app preferences

More background: https://www.alexzirbel.com/touch...

It's also open source! Thanks to Pixel Point, whose "Mute Me" app was the starting point for this project.

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mike A
Great stuff, do you plan on adding an actual Timer to this instead of just stop watch?
Alex Zirbel
Maker
@mykro thanks for trying it out! I don't plan to add a timer, because I think existing non-touchbar apps do that quite well and I'm not sure what the touch bar would add. I may eventually add a pomodoro mode, though. And I'm happy to accept pull requests for other features.
Abin Jacob
@mykro Wow, It will be so cool if you can add a pomodoro to this.
mike A
@alexzirbel Haha you read my mind, this is exactly what I was hoping to use the timer for ;)
Mattias P Johansson
@alexzirbel @mykro YES PLEASE! This is quite literally the only reason I have the menu bar showing. This would be a great use of my otherwise useless touch bar.
Yan Pallada
@mykro @alexzirbel Pomodoro mode will be great! That's how I got to find your timer...
Alex Zirbel
Maker
Thanks for trying it out everyone! Please get in touch if you have any feedback or suggestions. Did anyone find the easter egg on the landing page yet?
Chandhann Kumar Ramchurn
@alexzirbel Celebrations! :p
Tregg
@alexzirbel I found it on accident at first! Love it.
Tregg
Beautifully simple. Just what I need.
Alban
This is a great app, Alex! Thank you for building it. The only thing I'd suggest would be to add a Pomodoro feature or count down. Btw, loved the easter egg on the landing page.
Niv Dror
This looks useful! Downloaded and using ✨
Abin Jacob

The best use of the touch bar! Super useful tool.

Pros:

Very useful and works very well

Cons:

Nothing so far

Stephan Tual
Absolutely loves this. The first touch bar app i can actually use on the daily (presentations, etc)
Joel Pagan
Thats pretty cool!
Brian Babbitt

It's simple and easy to use. Takes up zero presence on "main" desktop and is a true touchbar only app.

Pros:

Cute, functional, simple

Cons:

None

Ian-Simeon David
This is a very useful app, can I please suggest adding a Pomodoro function to it? (25min intervals with 5min breaks) I think it'll make it an ultimate productivity tool, in addition what most people suggested as well - an actual Timer that runs out (and turns red maybe?). Otherwise its an awesome tool.
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