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Catime

An ultra-lightweight Windows countdown and Pomodoro tool written in pure C with a clean transparent interface, rich customization, powerful shortcuts, and almost no resource usage.

👋 Join us on Discord and QQ Group

🎨 Powerful Tray Animations

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

• Custom Animations: Use GIFs, WebPs, and static images like PNG & JPG as your tray icon.
• System Status: Set it to display real-time CPU or Memory usage percentages.

Looking for more fun animations? Check out our companion project, MemeTray (https://github.com/MemeTray/MemeTray)!

❤️‍🔥Staying tuned with us

Star us and witness how this pure C-crafted minimalist time tool continues to evolve - don't miss any exciting updates!

📥 Download

• GitHub Releases

  Download the latest release from GitHub Releases (https://github.com/vladelaina/Catime/releases/latest).

• Winget

  winget install --id VladElaina.Catime
  

📑User Guide (https://vladelaina.github.io/Catime/guide)

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

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

⚡Font Optimization (https://vladelaina.github.io/Catime/tools/font-tool/)

Reduce custom font file size by 90%+ with the official Font Simplification Tool (https://vladelaina.github.io/Catime/tools/font-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

📋 Windows Setup Instructions

📦 Required Tools

🔧 Installation Steps

1. Install MinGW

1. Download x86_64--release-win32-seh-ucrt-rtv-rev.7z from MinGW Build (https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases/latest)
2. Extract to C:\mingw64
3. Add C:\mingw64\bin to your PATH environment variable:
   • Open: Control Panel → System → Advanced System Settings → Environment Variables
   • Find Path in System variables, click "Edit"
   • Add: C:\mingw64\bin

2. Install CMake

1. Download and run cmake--windows-x86_64.msi from CMake (https://cmake.org/download/)
2. During installation, select "Add CMake to the system PATH"

3. Verify Installation

gcc --version
cmake --version

Building

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

🎁 Support (https://vladelaina.github.io/Catime/support.html)

Project Status

!Catime (https://repobeats.axiom.co/api/embed/f56dabe2c1b84ded2408ffb7d800f5c23bddb708.svg "Repobeats analytics image")

🌟Star History

Sponsors

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✨Acknowledgements (https://vladelaina.github.io/Catime/#thanks)

With special appreciation to 猫屋敷梨梨Official (https://space.bilibili.com/26087398) 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
  

🗝️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 (https://space.bilibili.com/26087398) 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 (https://space.bilibili.com/26087398)
  • Dynamic wallpaper link: 猫屋敷梨梨「星之所在」曲绘夜晚版 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171487185) & 猫屋敷梨梨-「星之所在」曲绘黄昏版 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171483657)

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