Alternatives to Clock Signal
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Clock Signal itself: install Clock Signal.
macintosh.js
🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
fly
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD
gops
A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
Brooklyn
🍎 Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018
Knuff
The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs)
detect-secrets
An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code
BLEUnlock
Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices
JupyterLab App
JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron
Reminders MenuBar
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source
macshot Offline
Feature-packed native macOS screenshot & recording tool: annotate, auto-redact PII, record GIFs, OCR + translate, scroll capture, beautify, and more.
libfaketime
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
core-lightning
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
Unshaky
A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained]
SideX
VS Code rebuilt on Tauri. Same architecture, 96% smaller. Early release
powerline-go
A beautiful and useful low-latency prompt for your shell, written in go
dwarfs
A fast high-compression read-only file system for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows
entityx
EntityX - A fast, type-safe C++ Entity-Component system
gcsfuse
A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
sbom-tool
The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts
lol-html
Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than Clock Signal — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
Clock Signal is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.