Imawa

Every timezone you work across, one glance away in your Mac menu bar.

Imawa gives every city you care about its own 24-hour strip, lined up with your day. One look tells you who is asleep, who is at lunch, and who you can call right now — no mental arithmetic, no browser tab.

It lives in the menu bar. No Dock icon, no window to manage.

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Install

1. Download the latest release and unzip it.
2. Drag Imawa.app into your Applications folder.
3. Open it. macOS will refuse the first time — see below.
4. Look for the globe and clock in your menu bar. Click it.

"Apple could not verify Imawa is free of malware"

Expected, and not a sign of anything wrong. Releases here are ad-hoc signed rather than signed with a paid Apple Developer certificate, so macOS blocks them on first launch. To allow it:

System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to the message about Imawa.

If that prompt does not appear, open Terminal and run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Imawa.app

then launch the app again. You only ever do this once.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Universal build — runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

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What it does

Compare one moment across every timezone

Hover any hour and the whole column lights up. Every row shows what that exact moment is for them, so you can find a meeting time that isn't 3am for somebody. The clock in your menu bar follows along as you move.

Plan any day, not just today

The date pills at the top run from yesterday to five days ahead. Pick one and every strip shifts to that day, so "what about Thursday?" takes one click. The calendar button jumps you back to today.

Your calendar, in context — optional

Connect your calendar from the gear menu and Imawa marks the days that have events with up to three dots, and dots the specific hours you are busy. Click a day or a busy hour to see exactly what is on.

Nothing is requested until you choose Connect Calendar, and your events are read and shown on your Mac — they are never sent anywhere.

Add any city, not just the ones with their own timezone

Search cities, regions, or abbreviations like CEST. Alongside the full IANA timezone database there are around a hundred major-city aliases, so searching San Francisco, Boston, Munich or Bangalore finds the right zone and keeps the city's own name on the row.

Rename a row, drag rows to reorder, or hover one for move and remove buttons. Your own timezone is detected automatically and always stays on top.

Five themes, light and dark

Pick a theme from the gear menu. Classic and Rosé Pine follow your system's light/dark appearance automatically; Hackerman, Amberbyte and Lumon were designed as dark themes and stay dark.

12 or 24-hour time

One toggle in the gear menu, applied everywhere — rows, hour strips, the header, and the menu bar clock.

The small stuff

• The menu bar shows a clock for whichever zone you choose.
• Daylight saving is handled for you, including on the days it changes.
• Launch at login, if you want it.
• Everything you set up is remembered between restarts.

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Privacy

Imawa makes no network requests at all. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics and no tracking. Your timezone list lives on your Mac.

Calendar access is entirely optional and off until you turn it on. When you do, events are read only to draw the dots and the popover — they never leave your machine.

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Building it yourself

Needs the Xcode Command Line Tools (Swift 6+). No Xcode, no dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/codexpert/imawa.git
cd imawa
Scripts/make-app.sh --install

That builds the app and drops it in /Applications. Full developer notes — tests, the offscreen preview renderer, release packaging and App Store details — are in docs/DEVELOPMENT.md.

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Made by ThriveDesk.