Minimal Countdown is a minimalistic countdown screen saver for macOS. It counts down to — or up from — a date you choose, ticking quietly while your Mac rests.
Last release notes read here.
- The totally redesigned Settings window, opened from
Options…, allows you to customize the screensaver as you want - The screensaver's now using a separate file to store its settings; you may duplicate it across multiple Macs.
- Set the target date and time — counts down to a future date, counts up from a past one (Stopwatch mode), and switches to Stopwatch automatically when it reaches zero
- The date range has been extended to more than two years (actually, up to 999 days before or after today)
- Add a short title above the timer, you may also show or hide it
- Choose what to show — days, hours, minutes, and seconds — and optionally hide the unit labels as well
- Use one of 11 accent colors for the screensaver
- Three brightness levels to dim the digits to taste
- Apply new digit effects —
blur,inner glow,backlight, orglow— with a custom effect color or selectnoneif you prefer classic - Adjust the digit font weight and switch to rounded digits
- Choose a numeral system (Western, Eastern Arabic, and more)
- Localized in 10 languages — English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Sanskrit
- The settings window supports right-to-left localized languages
Minimal Countdown requires macOS Sonoma or later.
Swift, SwiftUI, ScreenSaver, Swift Testing
- Unzip and install it (now without any Gatekeeper warnings)
- You can choose to install this screen saver only into your account or for all users
- Customize the settings to fit your imagination
- Enjoy it!
- Open
System Settings→Wallpaper→Screen Saver…button (macOS Tahoe) orSystem Settings→Screen Saver(macOS Sonoma–Sequoia) - Right-click Minimal Countdown →
Delete "Minimal Countdown"→Move to Trash - Close
System Settings - Run
killall WallpaperAgentin Terminal (or just restart your computer) - Install the new version of
MinimalCountdown.saver
- Aerial
- Mirko Fetter
- Eskil Gjerde Sviggum
- Sam Soffes
Apple docs,stack overflowandmedium.