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Have you ever wished you could see the time while coding or watching videos in fullscreen or when your menu bar is hidden? Corner Time is a minimalist macOS app designed for those who value a clean desktop but still want the clock to be always visible.

Unlike other widgets or solutions, Corner Time sits unobtrusively in the corner of your screen as if it were a native part of macOS—even when you’re in fullscreen mode or using auto-hide for your menu bar. The app is highly customizable: you can choose your preferred date format, adjust the style, match your system language, and use it seamlessly across all your monitors.

My personal use case is using it on my MacBook with TopNotch, along with always auto-hiding the menu bar and dock, to create a maximized, distraction-free workspace.

Corner Time has quickly become a favorite among digital minimalists and power users. Many users describe it as a long-awaited solution, praising its simple but thoughtful design.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

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shinycode
I’ve never ever liked working with the full screen mode. Very hard to do multi tasking with it. Curious to see how much people use it
elisiariocouto
Nice little app, even though I don't use fullscreen ever. Side question: what "stack" did you use for the website? It's beautiful!
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hk1337
I like it, it looks really nice.

I wish there were a way to adjust the positioning, maybe change the corner, change the margin from the edge of the screen, or a add a background?

https://i.imgur.com/BxanupM.png

*EDIT* It seems to work okay for the main macbook pro display. I'm guessing because something in the fullscreen is automatically handling bumping it down for the notch for you but on the second monitor I do not have the notch.

entropie
like a decade ago there were an xosd library for xorg which were dead easy to use. I used it to show song information and the time on one display. It was very no disruptive. I used a fifo to pipe information to it but the xosd_fifo/ruby library eventually broke.

I should investigate if there is something similar now

blef
why is there a press kit for a clock app? also it triggers me a bit that the clock is not exactly aligned with the MacOS clock
thatscot
There is so many devices this is an issue on.

Different states that garmin watches get into, that you just can't see the time. I feel a watch should just always show the time somewhere on the screen haha.

Happens on IOS too.

muvich3n
I noticed that sometimes live activity on the dynamic island will cause the time to disappear.
entrepy123
Hey, this is really good for when "automatically hide and show menu bar" is enabled.

The only problem with "automatically hide and show menu bar" was that the clock was not there.

Which is actually very nicely solved now.

Well done!

diimdeep
LOL, it is as if 2011 and people are still doing 100 lines of code MAS apps for $1.99

In meantime I have became so frustrated and disillusioned with Apple breaking API and walled garden model that I refuse to even open Mac App Store.

Guess how many similar apps are still functional and maintained there released way back, as many as nearly zero.

Could have been 100 lines widget for https://tracesof.net/uebersicht-widgets/

Meantime there is things like this out there, free as air https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar

avinassh
huh I didn’t expect the price to be $1.99

it’s less, but good for me :)

muvich3n
Thanks! How much do you think it would be?