Bare-bones floating clock for macOS

My setup has auto-hide for menu bar and dock, so I use this clock to show the current time in the bottom right corner.

Screenshot:

Forked and slightly reworked from https://github.com/kolbusa/FloatClock.

Quick Install

Download the latest DMG from the releases page and drag the app to your Applications folder.

Build instructions

Requires Swift and rsvg-convert (for app icon generation):

brew install librsvg

Build targets:

• make or make all - Build CLI binary to build/FloatClock
• make app - Build macOS app bundle to build/FloatClock.app
• make dmg - Create DMG installer at build/FloatClock.dmg
• make clean - Remove all build artifacts (build/ directory)

Installation targets:

• sudo make install - Install CLI version to /usr/local/bin
• make register - Add CLI version to login items (auto-start)
• make unregister - Remove CLI version from login items
• make uninstall - Uninstall CLI version and remove from login items

All build artifacts are placed in the build/ directory to keep the project root clean.

Usage

App Bundle

Run make app to create build/FloatClock.app which you can double-click to run or drag to your Applications folder.

DMG Installer

Run make dmg to create build/FloatClock.dmg - a disk image with the app and Applications folder shortcut for easy installation.

CLI Version

Run make to build the command-line version to build/FloatClock, or use sudo make install to install it system-wide.

Features

• Auto-hides when mouse is away from the bottom of the screen
• Shows when mouse approaches the bottom edge (2px threshold)
• Left-click opens Calendar app
• Right-click shows context menu with "Quit" option
• Displays time and date in a floating window