A minimal, always-on-top macOS countdown widget styled like a Bloomberg Terminal — big monospaced digits in terminal orange on black. It floats above other windows, joins all Spaces, and remembers exactly where you put it.
Two countdown modes:
- Daily — counts down to a target time each day (e.g. end of day,
9:00 am → 5:30 pm), then waits for the next reset. - Fixed date — counts down to a specific date/time.
- Borderless floating window, movable by dragging anywhere on its background.
- Pinned position & size — the widget reopens at the exact spot and size you left it, with no launch-time drift.
- HUD (compact) and full layouts; hover to reveal add / resize / settings / quit controls.
- Multiple countdowns, custom labels, and terminal color themes (orange, amber, cyan, green, red, white).
- Optional menu-bar item and launch-at-login.
Requires macOS 13+ and a Swift toolchain (Xcode or the Swift command-line tools).
./build-app.sh
open Countdown.app # run in place
# or install it:
mv Countdown.app ~/Applications/The widget is designed for Neue Haas Grotesk Display, a commercial typeface that is not included in this repository for licensing reasons. The app runs fine without it — SwiftUI falls back to the system font.
To match the intended look, drop your licensed font files into Resources/Fonts/ before building:
Resources/Fonts/NHGDisplay-Regular.ttf
Resources/Fonts/NHGDisplay-Medium.ttf
Resources/Fonts/NHGDisplay-Bold.ttf
(Or edit the PostScript names in Sources/Countdown/Models.swift to point at any font you prefer.)
MIT — see LICENSE. Note that the MIT license applies to this source code only, not to any fonts you supply.