A Spotify bar, an Apple Music bar, and a Pomodoro timer for your Mac. Your song stays on screen. The bar colors in, green to red, while you work.
One-time purchase. No account. Works with the Spotify and Music apps you already have.
Skip a song without switching to the Spotify or Music window. Topline keeps the controls in one line, then gets out of the way.
Drag it anywhere. Bring it near the top of any display and it locks in full width with a little tap you can feel. Drop it anywhere else and it floats as a rounded bar.
Play, pause, skip, shuffle, repeat, a stretchy scrubber, and volume, for both Spotify and Apple Music.
AirPods, studio monitors, your display's speakers or AirPlay. Pick it right from the bar.
With Apple Music, favorite the song or start any playlist without leaving the work. Spotify playback sits on the same bar, and it does not ask you to log in.
The bar slowly shifts to the colors of whatever's playing. Quiet enough to ignore. Pretty enough not to want to.
Click the timer on the left of the bar. Topline starts a focus session, from 5 to 90 minutes, and the whole bar starts green and slowly turns yellow, then red, as time runs down. The controls step back. The clock takes over. Your music keeps playing.
Then a chime, and a five-minute break. Whatever is playing keeps playing. Drag the timer sideways, or scroll on it, to set the length in steps of 5. Topline remembers what you pick. It starts at 25 minutes.
Right-click the bar and open Focus Stats. You get minutes today, sessions finished, a day streak, the hour you focus most, and a chart of the week. A session under a minute is ignored, so a mis-click does not count.
Topline follows the Spotify app or the Music app, whichever is playing. Open one, press play, and the song is on the bar within a second. There is no Topline account.
Play, pause, previous, next, shuffle, repeat, seek, and volume go straight to the Spotify app on your Mac. Drop the bar near the top of a display and it stays there, full width, including when you switch Spaces.
There is no Spotify login inside Topline. The Mac App Store version does not connect a Spotify account. Spotify only allows a few users on an unapproved app, so likes and Spotify playlists stay out of the store version. Playback does not need them.
The same bar talks to the Music app. Favorite the song, start any of your playlists, and pick a speaker: AirPods, a display, or an AirPlay speaker.
You stay signed in to Music. You do not sign in to Apple inside Topline.
| Search | What you get |
|---|---|
| Pomodoro timer | Click the left side of the bar. 5 to 90 minutes, then a chime and a 5-minute break. The bar stays red while you focus. |
| Spotify bar | The song, the scrubber, and the volume for the Spotify app, in a strip under the menu bar. No Spotify login. |
| Apple Music bar | That same strip for the Music app, including favorites, your playlists, and AirPlay. |
| ADHD focus timer | A timer wide enough to see, music controls that do not open another window, and a break that ends by itself. |
| Keyboard clicker | A mechanical klack for every key, in nine switch styles, from a deep thock to a typewriter. It does not record what you type. |
| Focus soundscape | A coffee shop, rain, ocean, or a wordless loop, on the bar. Studies measured creative tests and stress recovery, not a guaranteed percent of a workday. |
People looking for an ADHD Pomodoro timer tend to want a clock they can see, music they can change without opening another app, and a break that ends by itself. Topline is those three, on one bar.
During a session the whole strip slides from green to red, with a soft glow every so often. If a window needs that space, the bar shrinks to a line and the countdown keeps going in the menu bar. Click it to bring the bar back. Right-click and turn on Always Show Bar when you want the full strip to stay.
Opening Spotify to skip is how a work block turns into twelve minutes of playlists. The controls are already on the bar, for Spotify and for Apple Music, so the document can stay where it is.
You do not pick the break length, and you do not have to remember to come back. A second chime marks the end. The music keeps playing.
On days when lyrics take the sentence you were writing, Undertone is sound with no words: Deep, Drift, Rain, and Glow, a place such as a coffee shop, rain, or a fireplace, a binaural tone (Focus, Calm, Drift) for headphones, or brown or white noise. You start it yourself. The timer leaves it alone.
Topline is a timer and a music bar. It is not a treatment, a therapy, or a way to diagnose anything.
Turn on key sounds and every key on your Mac gets a mechanical klack, in whatever app you are typing. Nine switch styles. Space, return, and delete each have their own sound. It is marked beta, and it stays off until you ask for it in Settings.
Topline does not record what you type. It only notes whether the key was a letter, space, return, or delete, so it can pick a sound. macOS asks for Input Monitoring. Nothing is saved or sent.
A quiet room is not a free room. In five experiments, noise about as loud as a busy coffee shop helped people on creative problems. Louder than that, it hurt. Undertone is that middle, on the bar: a coffee shop, rain, an ocean, a fire, and slow loops with no words to take the sentence you are writing.
You start it. The timer leaves it alone. Try one. It plays in the bar up top. The studies, and the limits of them, are spelled out beside the sounds.
Topline is a Mac app that puts Spotify or Apple Music in a thin bar across the top of the screen, and puts a Pomodoro timer on that same bar. It costs $4.99 once and runs on macOS 15 or later. There is no subscription and no Topline account.
Yes. Click the timer on the left of the bar to start a focus session. You can set it from 5 to 90 minutes, in steps of 5. It starts at 25 and remembers your length. The bar shifts from green to yellow to red as the session runs, with a soft glow now and then. When time is up, a chime plays and a 5-minute break starts. Whatever you're listening to keeps playing; the timer never touches your music.
Yes. Topline controls the Spotify app on your Mac: play, pause, previous, next, shuffle, repeat, seek, and volume. Open Spotify, play a song, and the bar shows it within a second. You do not log in to Spotify inside Topline. The Mac App Store version has no Spotify account connection, because Spotify only allows a few users on an unapproved app.
Yes. Topline controls the Music app: play, pause, skip, scrub, volume, shuffle, repeat, favorites, and your playlists. Speaker choice, including AirPlay, is on the bar. You stay signed in to Music. You do not sign in to Apple inside Topline.
Yes, if what you need is a timer you can see, music controls that do not make you switch apps, and a break that ends on its own. While you focus, the bar shifts from green to red as time runs down. If a window covers it, the countdown moves to the menu bar in red, and Always Show Bar keeps the full strip up. Topline is not a medical treatment, a therapy, or a diagnostic tool.
Yes. You can focus in silence, or play Undertone: Deep, Drift, Rain, and Glow, or a place such as a coffee shop, rain, or a fireplace. The timer does not start or stop that sound. Key sounds, if you turn them on, keep going too.
No. Experiments found that moderate noise, about 70 decibels, helped people on creative problems, and that louder noise hurt. Nature soundscapes helped a lab measure of directed attention, and a nature sound sped recovery after a stressful task. None of that is a fixed percent of a workday, and Topline does not promise one. Undertone is a coffee shop, rain, an ocean, a fire, and slow loops with no words. You start it yourself. The timer leaves it alone.
A session is 5 to 90 minutes. The break is 5 minutes. Topline stores sessions longer than a minute on your Mac and shows minutes today, finished sessions, a day streak, your most focused hour, and a chart of the week. Nothing is uploaded.
$4.99 once, on the Mac App Store, with free updates. It needs macOS 15 or later. It does not run on iPhone, iPad, or Windows.
Press Control-Option-Command-S to show or hide it. Drag any empty part of the bar. Near the top of a display it snaps to full width. Anywhere else it floats, with rounded corners. Right-click and choose Reset Position to put it back at the top of the main screen. Quit from that same menu.
Topline is a strip about 44 points tall under the menu bar, with the song, the scrubber, the volume, and the timer visible without a click. When a window needs that space, the strip shrinks to a line and those details move into the menu bar. Control-Option-Command-S hides the bar completely.
Yes. Right-click the bar, open Settings, and turn on Show key sounds on the bar. A keyboard button appears at the right end. Click it and every key you press, in any app, plays a mechanical klack. There are nine styles: Cream, Clicky Blue, Deep Thock, Topre, Muffled Topre, Felt, Typewriter, Laptop, and Silent. It is marked beta, and it stays off until you turn it on.
No. Topline listens only for the kind of key: a letter, space, return, or delete. It uses that to pick a sound. The letters are not saved, logged, or sent. macOS asks you to allow Input Monitoring before the sounds can play.