macOS menu bar app
Every second,
you have one fewer.
A live countdown of your remaining seconds, sitting quietly in your menu bar. Memento mori for the era of infinite scroll.
The idea
A number that only goes down.
Marcus Aurelius kept a reminder of death on his desk. Steve Jobs asked himself every morning: if today were my last, would I do what I'm about to do?
You don't need a notebook or a ritual. You just need a number, always visible, that only goes down.
Where it lives
Always in sight. Never in the way.
Fewer sits in your menu bar and never leaves. No notification ever fires. No popup, no nag, no streak to maintain. Just a quiet tick.
- → Live, per-second counter
- → Or an animated icon (hourglass, heart, flame, ECG) revealing the count on hover
- → Pulse, bounce, heartbeat — at your chosen speed
Your typeface
Choose your memento.
LED dot matrix. Split-flap. Nixie tubes. LCD. Minimal text. Eleven themes, each tuned to feel alive without being frantic.
Three icons and the Factory theme are free, forever. A single one-time purchase unlocks all eleven themes and every premium icon. No subscription. No expiry.
A number about you
Based on real life-expectancy data.
Birth date, country, and sex. Fewer reads public actuarial tables for 190+ countries and computes a number that's actually about you — not an average of everyone.
A philosophical reminder, not a medical prediction. The countdown is a statistical estimate and must not be interpreted as health advice.
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
— Marcus Aurelius
What you get
Built to disappear into your day.
Per-second precision
A live countdown that updates every second, smoothly. No jitter, no stutter.
Your data stays local
Birth date never leaves your Mac. No account, no cloud, no analytics.
190+ countries
Public actuarial data, calibrated by country and sex.
11 themes
LED, Split-flap, Nixie, LCD, minimal — pick the typeface that fits your day.
Free to start
Three icons and the Factory theme, free forever. One-time purchase unlocks the rest.
No notifications
Fewer never pushes, dings, or pops up. Look up when you want to.