Cati.me

A pure C-written, ultra-lightweight Windows countdown and Pomodoro tool with a clean transparent interface,
extensive customization, powerful shortcuts, and negligible resource consumption—all in just 995KB.

🎨 Powerful Tray Animations

Your tray icon can now come alive! Catime brings powerful custom animation features:

• Custom Animations: Use GIF, WebP, ANI, and static images like PNG & JPG as your tray icon.
• System Status: Supports real-time display of CPU %, Memory %, Battery %, and Caps Lock status.

[!TIP] Looking for more fun animations? Check out our companion project, MemeTray!

💫Plugins

Plugins simply write their output to ./output.txt, and Catime displays it in real time—it's that simple!

[!TIP] Looking for more useful Plugins? Check out our companion project, Catime-Plugins!

❤️‍🔥Staying tuned with us

⭐ Star us and witness the evolution of this pure C-crafted minimalist time tool—stay tuned for exciting updates and new features!

<img  src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/50cfc9d4-3d3f-4370-b233-89d76f78977e" />

📥 Download

• GitHub Releases

  Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

• Scoop

  scoop bucket add extras
  
  scoop install catime
  

• Winget

  winget install --id VladElaina.Catime
  

📑User Guide

• Left-click tray icon: Set time
• Right-click tray icon: Set menu
• Edit mode: Drag to adjust position, scroll wheel to resize, Ctrl+scroll wheel to adjust opacity, 🖱️ right-click to exit edit mode

Configuration file saved at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Catime\config.ini

⚡Font Optimization

Reduce custom font file size by 90%+ with the official Font Simplification Tool.

Since Catime only displays numbers and symbols (0-9, :, .), most font characters are unnecessary.

Recommendation: Keep your original font files as backups. Future software updates may require additional characters beyond the current set.

🛠️ Development

Prerequisites: MinGW and CMake are required to build Catime.

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/vladelaina/Catime.git
cd Catime

# INSTALL DEPENDENCIES
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y mingw-w64 cmake

# Arch Linux  
sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm mingw-w64 cmake

# Windows - See setup instructions below

gcc --version
cmake --version

Building

chmod +x build.sh && ./build.sh   # Linux
build.bat                         # Windows

🎁 Support

Sponsors

Free code signing on Windows provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation

Project Status

🌟Star History

✨Acknowledgements

With special appreciation to 猫屋敷梨梨Official for the beautiful icon design.

Special thanks to the following contributors(chronological order):

MAX°孟兆	XuJilong	点滴进度作者	zggsong	猫屋敷梨梨Official	MOJIもら	李康
我是无名吖	金麟	双脚猫	rsyqvthv	君影	学习马楼	睡着的火山
星空下数羊	青阳忘川	William	王野	煮酒论科技	风增	田春
behappy425	x.j	kissholic	Alnilam	柒	枫谷剑仙	Marial
卓越方达	choyy	益渊Yyuan	上条教主	jin-gubang	xlr134	莫颜
LuSrackhall	是玄夜不是玄月	YangCangShu	valuex	lxzrjyff	DaYe	zct4257
小败叶	闲人不梦君Q	李良	imxhe	mua	析木	溜溜大神校长来了
Seredo	红树林	Snow-kal	TCWei	YuYinLC	Fireman	Kder
DZAladan	埘間	Mei_Fsto	方勾勾	此后每天天天不及那天	O-Illusions

🗝️Copyright Notice

This project is released under the Apache License 2.0 open source license.

Icon copyright notice:

• The software icon was created by 猫屋敷梨梨Official who reserves all rights. Without explicit authorization from the original creator, it may not be used for any commercial purposes.

Font licenses:

• MIT:
  • ProFontWindows Essence.ttf
• SIL Open Font License:
  • DaddyTimeMono Essence.otf, DepartureMono Essence.otf, Rec Mono Casual Essence.ttf, Terminess Nerd Font Essence.ttf
• OFL (Open Font License):
  • Jacquard 12 Essence.ttf, Jacquarda Bastarda 9 Essence.ttf, Pixelify Sans Essence.ttf, Rubik Burned Essence.ttf, Rubik Glitch Essence.ttf, Rubik Marker Hatch Essence.ttf, Rubik Puddles Essence.ttf, Wallpoet Essence.ttf

Wallpaper:

• Author: 猫屋敷梨梨Official
  • Dynamic wallpaper link: 猫屋敷梨梨「星之所在」曲绘夜晚版 & 猫屋敷梨梨-「星之所在」曲绘黄昏版