MitiBar

MitiBar keeps today’s BS date in the tray, with a month grid, tithi, public holidays, a converter and settings one click away. On Windows a small floating bar shows the date and time wherever you put it. The popup opens from the tray, the bar or a global shortcut, Win+Shift+N, and closes when it loses focus. It makes no network requests.

It is built on the Rust library and lives in the same repository, sanamhub/nepdate-rust.

Download

MitiBar 0.1.0-beta.1 on GitHub Releases has:

Platform	Files
Windows 10 and 11	NSIS installer or portable zip, x64 and ARM64
macOS	universal .dmg
Linux	.AppImage or .deb

Unsigned beta

The beta is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen and macOS Gatekeeper warn before the first run. The release notes say how to open it on each platform. Its idle memory, CPU and cold-start targets are not yet confirmed on a quiet machine.

Check a download

Every release has a SHA256SUMS file and a build provenance attestation. With the GitHub CLI:

sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS
gh attestation verify mitibar_0.1.0-beta.1_x64-setup.exe --repo sanamhub/nepdate-rust

What it does

• Tray: today’s BS day on the icon on Windows and Linux, and the day and month as the menu-bar title on macOS (the next release shows the bar’s top line there instead). The tooltip has the BS and AD dates. The menu has Open, Copy today (BS), Copy today (AD), Show bar (Windows), Settings and Quit.
• Floating bar (Windows): one or two lines you choose from weekday, time, a second clock, BS and AD dates, tithi and today’s holiday. Drag it anywhere; it snaps to edges and stays above the taskbar.
• Month view: BS and AD day numbers, tithi under each day, holidays in red, events marked with a dot. Zoom out to a year or a decade, go to any date, or pin the popup open.
• Settings: language (English or Nepali), theme, the bar’s two lines, the shortcut, a second time zone, and start at login.

Build it yourself

cargo run -p mitibar --release

On Linux it needs a tray (StatusNotifierItem or the GNOME AppIndicator extension), fontconfig, xkbcommon and D-Bus. The renderer is software only, so no OpenGL or GPU driver is needed.

More

Topic	Where
Requirements and design	docs/design
Idle memory, CPU and cold start	docs/benchmarks-widget.md
What changed	CHANGELOG.md

MitiBar follows NepDateWidget, with its author’s permission. It is made with Slint and uses the Noto fonts.