Meridian - World Clock

A lightweight, beautiful world clock that lives in your macOS menu bar. Under 1 MB download. Zero dependencies — pure Apple frameworks.

Install

Download (recommended)

Grab the latest .dmg from the Releases page. Open it, drag Meridian.app to /Applications, and launch.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/shivanshthapliyal/meridian.git
cd meridian
swift build -c release

See DEVELOPMENT.md for more details.

Features

• Menu bar app — lives in your menu bar with an optional inline time display
• Liquid Glass UI — native macOS Tahoe frosted glass cards, buttons, and badges
• Analog clock faces — miniature working clocks with day/night styling
• Swipe actions — swipe left on any zone to copy, set as menu bar display, or delete
• Inline search — search 60+ timezones or convert times (e.g. "3pm PST")
• Time-travel slider — scrub forward/backward up to 12 hours in configurable steps
• DST indicators — see which zones are in daylight saving time with transition warnings
• Smart day labels — Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow relative to your local time
• 12h / 24h toggle — switch time format from the footer or right-click menu
• Pin popover — keep the clock open while you work
• Menu bar time — show any timezone's time right in the menu bar
• Auto-resize — popover adapts to your number of zones (up to 5, then scrolls)
• Launch at login — toggle from the right-click menu
• Keyboard shortcut — Cmd+Shift+W to toggle from anywhere
• Update check — lightweight GitHub release check, no bloatware
• Persistent settings — zones, order, format, and preferences survive restarts

Usage

Action	How
Open/close	Left-click the globe icon or Cmd+Shift+W
Settings	Right-click the globe icon
Add timezone	Click + or type in the search bar
Remove a zone	Swipe left > Delete, or use edit mode
Reorder zones	Click the pencil icon, then drag
Set menu bar time	Swipe left > Menu Bar
Copy a zone's time	Swipe left > Copy, or click the row
Time travel	Drag the slider
Change step size	Use the step picker in the footer (5m/15m/30m/1h)
Toggle 12h/24h	Click the format button in the footer
Pin open	Click the pin icon
Quit	Right-click > Quit Meridian

Requirements

Requirement	Minimum
macOS	26.0 (Tahoe)
Architecture	Apple Silicon and Intel

License

MIT