TinyStopwatch 3.0 is here: a complete redesign with a cleaner menu bar popup, easier countdowns, rebuilt history, onboarding, and improved shortcuts.
TinyStopwatch is a clean, focused menu bar app for stopwatches, countdown timers, and lightweight time tracking on your Mac.
Built to stay out of the way, TinyStopwatch gives you instant access to elapsed time from the menu bar, with a compact popup for starting, pausing, naming, and managing your timers. Use it to track work sessions, time-box tasks, prepare presentations, manage breaks, or keep a simple record of how your time is spent.
Key Features:
• Menu Bar Time Display
See your active stopwatch or countdown timer at a glance, right from the macOS menu bar.
• Fast Stopwatch Controls
Start, pause, resume, and stop your stopwatch in seconds from a clean, redesigned popup.
• Countdown Timers
Create named timers for breaks, focus sessions, meetings, presentations, and time-boxed tasks.
• Session History
Review completed stopwatch sessions, add notes, and keep a lightweight record of your tracked time.
• CSV Export
Export history to CSV for analysis, reporting, invoicing, or use in other apps.
• Customizable Menu Bar
Choose different display formats, visual styles, color indicators, and behavior options.
• Global Keyboard Shortcuts
Control TinyStopwatch from anywhere with customizable shortcuts. Available with Pro.
• Multiple Stopwatches and Timers
Track several tasks, projects, or timers at the same time. Available with Pro.
• Pause on Sleep
Keep tracked time accurate by automatically pausing the stopwatch when your Mac goes to sleep. Available with Pro.
TinyStopwatch is designed for people who want practical time tracking without a complicated project management system. The essential stopwatch features are free, and Pro unlocks advanced controls with a one-time in-app purchase.
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Perfect except for missing keyboard shortcuts
XanderPSON
It's exactly the kind of timer I need for staying efficient at work (turn on when working, turn off when not working). My only wish is that there was a way to set a keyboard shortcut to start/pause/stop the timer, rather than having to do it manually with the mouse!
Just What I Needed
RattleYourCage
I just started to use Tiny Stopwatch, so this does not reflect long-term experience. But it does what I need without lots of useless features cluttering up the app. I love having the app dock itself in the menu bar and display elapsed time unobtrusively. Be aware that the menu bar display does not show seconds (which is preferred since that might be distracting). So, it shows 00:00 until at least a minute has elapsed. You click the menu bar display to access the controls, which allows for start, pause, and stop. When you click Stop, your elapsed time and stop time are displayed in a list that also allows you to enter a description for that time segment. Good for keeping track of tasks and elapsed time. Useful if you bill clients for time spent. During use, the time and current status (running, paused, stopped) are conveniently displayed in the menu bar, freeing up screen space. At this writing, the app is also free, so it is one of the best deals I've found in the app store.
Developer Response
Thanks for your detailed feedback! A new update with seconds shown in the menu bar is now available. If you don't need that, it can be quickly disabled with a right-click on the menu bar item.
Almost Perfect Little App
veryken
Love almost everything about it — small, simple, unobtrusive menu bar location, clean, easy to use, reliable (so far). I've used many other timer apps before, even a chess timer physically sitting on my desk. Now it's all digital, all convenient, all instant with keyboard shortcut in the Pro version. And it's been almost a year since I discovered it.The only tiny improvement I can see is having maybe a preference to make the "running state" a bit more noticeable, like a red dot on/off or just different color for the numbers. Currently it requires staring at it for a few seconds to see if the numbers move. Nicer if on or off was a glance.
Great app, version 2.2 is broken.
vakpak
I use this tiny app almost every day to track time on task, and I love new options in the free version to hide the background in the menu bar, start with system, and change the time display type. Unfortunately, the update also broke the timer, which is a pretty important feature for a stopwatch. Multiple times today I have paused the timer and then restarted it after a break only to have the time on the timer instantly DOUBLE when I press the play button. Start the timer with 16 minutes on the clock, and it jumps straight to 32. Useless for billing time on task and very frustrating to see something perfect broken for aesthetic changes. Please fix!
Developer Response
Hi vakpak, sorry to hear you are experiencing problems with TinyStopwatch. The bug you described was fixed in update 2.2.1. Can you please check if the problem is solved? Otherwise please send an email to hello@tinyapps.de so we can take a look. Thanks!
TinyStopwatch 3.0 is a complete redesign focused on making timing clearer, faster, and easier to manage.
• All-new interface across the menu bar popup, stopwatch view, settings, shortcuts, and history
• Redesigned timer creation with a simpler, more intuitive countdown picker
• Improved menu bar display with clearer status icons, color indicators, and better formatting
• New options for the timer alert: time-sensitive macOS notification or a popup alert with sounds
• New welcome flow to help new users discover key features
• Completely rebuilt history view with session stats, cleaner rows and time editing
• Option to both start and stop a stopwatch earlier (rewind start or end date)
• Option to quickly restart an expired countdown timer
• Improved Pro settings with clearer feature descriptions, purchase restore, review, and support actions
• Better global shortcut recording and more reliable shortcut behavior
• Expired timers are now visually highlighted so they are easier to spot
• Improved popup behavior, window handling, and overall app reliability
• Various polish, layout, and bug fixes throughout the app
Version 3.0
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