Fuginaut

Free for Mac

A second clock at the center of your menu bar.

Apple's clock sits in the far right corner of the screen. On a wide monitor, that's a long way from whatever you're working on. Fuginaut draws a second clock in the middle of the menu bar on every display, where a glance finds it.

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macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. No account, and nothing collected.

Try one on.

This bar shows your own time. Your browser writes the words here, so a few may differ slightly from the app, which has many more options.

Sun Nov 8  9:41 AM
Color

Size and position

Right where you look.

The clock sits at the center of the menu bar on every display.

Size
Anywhere from 9 to 40 points.
Nudge
Up to 600 points either way, if something else already lives there.
Notch
The clock slides beside the notch when it fits.
Laptops
A laptop's own screen starts with the clock off while an external display is connected. Turn it on from General.
The Size tab, with a slider for the clock's size and a nudge off the center of the bar

Text

Any font on your Mac.

Use one of the built-in looks, or any font family you have installed.

Font
System, Rounded, Mono, Serif, or your own.
Weight
Four to choose from.
Capitals
As written, ALL CAPS, or lowercase.
The Text tab, with pickers for the font, its weight, and capitals

Color

Match the bar,
or don't.

White on a dark menu bar and black on a light one, until you pick your own.

Color
24 swatches, a hex value, or the color wheel.
Backing
A shadow or a pill keeps the text readable over busy wallpaper.
Contrast
The backing picks a contrasting color on its own, or you choose one the same three ways.
The Color tab, with a grid of swatches, a hex field, and the color wheel for the text and its backing

Format

Sixteen date styles, or write your own.

Short, long, day first, with the year, numeric, dotted, ISO, ISO week, day of year, and more.

Layout
Show or hide the weekday, date, and time, put either first, with seven choices for what goes between them.
Time
12-hour or 24-hour, with or without seconds, a leading zero, and PM, pm, or neither.
Extras
Text or emoji before and after the clock.
Custom
A pattern of your own, with ready examples and a menu of pattern letters.
The Format tab, with a date style picker and switches for the weekday, date, time, and order
Six clock looks: amber on a navy pill, mono ISO in 24-hour time, rounded with a rocket emoji, serif spelled out, all caps with seconds, and time only in big bold amber

World

Your language, your numerals, your calendar.

Mix them freely.

  • 27languages
  • 17sets of numerals
  • 12calendars
Word order
Languages other than English use their own word order when the month is written as a word.
Second zone
Search by city, zone name, or UTC offset, with a label of your own beside it.
The World tab, with pickers for language, numerals, and calendar, and a second time zone set to Tokyo
One moment written seven ways: Arabic with the Islamic calendar, Chinese lunisolar, Hebrew, Hindi with the Indian national calendar, Japanese with the imperial era, Persian with Solar Hijri, and Thai with the Buddhist calendar

General

It stays out of your way.

Click the eclipse in the menu bar to turn the clock on and off.

Eclipse
Amber while the clock is on, plain while it's off. Right-click it for the menu.
Clicks
Click the clock to open settings, or let clicks pass straight through.
Displays
Choose which ones show it, and keep it up in full screen apps.
Quiet
Hide the menu bar icon, and open at login if you want to.
The General tab, with switches for each display and for how the clock behaves

See it in 40 seconds.

No permissions. Nothing collected.

Fuginaut asks for no permissions and has no account. No version makes network requests. Read the privacy policy.

Free, and open source.

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