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Slotty Time is a macOS menu-bar app for running timeboxed routines. You build small playlists of timed steps — a morning startup, a deep-work block, a wrap-up — and Slotty runs them one slot at a time, counting down right in your menu bar.
macOS only. Slotty is a native menu-bar app — there's no Windows version, no Linux version, no web version, and no iOS companion. The menu bar is part of the design, not an accident.
Slotty is on the Mac App Store. Pricing details are listed on the App Store page — open the download link from the home page for the current price in your region.
No account, no sign-in, no email required. Slotty doesn't have a server; everything lives on your Mac.
No. Slotty has no sync, by design. If you set up Slotty on a second Mac, you'll rebuild your routines there. We may revisit this in the future, but it's intentionally not part of v1.
A routine is a saved sequence of steps with an emoji and a name — something you'll run again and again. A Quick Slot is a one-off focus block: type a number of minutes, hit start, no saving. Both use the same countdown and the same expiry behavior.
The countdown turns red and starts counting up. A local notification fires, and a small floating panel appears asking what you want to do — continue, skip the step, end the routine, or extend the current step by one of your "+ time" presets. Slotty waits for your decision; it never auto-advances.
No. Slotty allows one active run at a time. This keeps the menu bar honest — what you see is what you're working on.
Slotty's primary controls are skip, end, and extend. The design assumes that if you need to step away, you'd rather end the slot honestly than have a paused timer hanging over your head. (If this matters to you, let us know — we read all the feedback.)
When a step expires, Slotty offers buttons to add a chunk of time. By default these are 10%, 25% and 50% of the original step length, rounded to whole minutes. You can change the presets in Settings, either as percentages or as fixed minute values. Steps shorter than 4 minutes only show +1m, because percentage extensions of two minutes aren't useful.
Yes. Each routine can be marked as scheduled and pinned to one or more weekdays. Scheduled routines appear under Today only on matching days; non-matching scheduled routines tuck under Other Routines in the dropdown. Unscheduled routines appear in the default list every day.
On first run, Slotty seeds four starter routines: Morning Start, Wrap Up, Monday Planning, and Friday Review. These are just examples — feel free to delete them, edit them, or build your own from scratch.
Yes. Slotty exposes App Shortcuts for Start routine, Continue routine, Skip routine step, End routine, and Open Slotty. You can chain these into your own Shortcuts to trigger Slotty from a hotkey, a calendar event, or another app.
No, and on purpose. Slotty stores an optional Focus hint string per routine, but it doesn't toggle macOS Focus directly. The recommended pattern is to build a Shortcut that both sets a Focus mode and starts a Slotty routine — that way you keep full control over what Focus actually does.
Slotty uses local macOS notifications with three quick actions: Continue, Skip, and End. Whether you actually see them depends on your Mac's notification settings and your current Focus configuration. From inside Slotty you can request notification permission or jump to the system notification settings page.
No. No telemetry, no event pings, no third-party SDKs. Slotty doesn't have a server to send things to. See the privacy page for the long version.
Locally on your Mac, in Slotty's app sandbox. Nothing leaves the machine.
Not at the moment. If that changes, we'll mention it here.
Use the support page for bug reports, feedback, or direct email. You can also send a note to slotty@apkt.io.
Set up one routine. Run it tomorrow. See if your day feels a little less slippery.
Download on the Mac App Store