HelloHours is a simple Mac menu bar app that helps you keep track of the people who matter across different time zones. Instead of opening a world clock, checking a calendar, or doing mental timezone maths, HelloHours gives you a quick, human-friendly view of each person’s local time, location, and likely availability - right from your menu bar.
The app is designed for anyone who works with international clients, remote teams, friends, family, or collaborators in different parts of the world. Each contact can be added with a name, location, timezone, and usual awake hours, allowing HelloHours to show whether they are likely awake, asleep, starting their day, or winding down for the evening.
The goal is not just to show time, but to make time more useful. HelloHours helps you decide when to send a message, schedule a call, or hold off until a better moment - making communication feel more thoughtful, respectful, and effortless.
- Menu bar first: keep world-time context one click away without opening a full app window.
- Track people across time zones: save friends, teammates, or clients and see their local time instantly.
- Live time updates: local times refresh automatically so the list stays current throughout the day.
- Awake/asleep visibility: quickly see whether someone is likely awake, sleeping, or in their morning/evening hours.
- Best time to message: the app calculates overlap between your hours and theirs to suggest when to reach out.
- Custom awake hours per person: fine-tune each person’s usual schedule instead of relying only on timezone math.
- Your own default availability: set your normal awake hours once and use them across message-overlap calculations.
- Detailed person view: open a profile to see local time, timezone difference, awake status, and messaging window in one place.
- Flexible contact profiles: store name, location label, timezone, email, phone number, and avatar photo.
- Searchable timezone picker: find cities and regions fast, with current local times shown while you choose.
- One-click contact actions: launch email or WhatsApp directly from a person’s detail view.
- Multiple sorting modes: sort by local time, name, awake-first, or your own custom order.
- Drag-and-drop ordering: manually arrange people exactly how you want when using custom sort mode.
- Personalized display preferences: choose whether to show location, awake status, and 24-hour time.
- Launch at login: keep the app ready in the menu bar every time your Mac starts.
- Local persistence: your saved people and preferences are remembered between sessions.
- Quick editing: update timezones, awake hours, contact details, and photos whenever someone’s schedule changes.
I've worked hard to make this app look as good as possible. I aimed for a careful balance between displaying enough information but not too much, like many of the other apps. It was a fine balance, but I think I got right:
