DateDrop — Formatted Date/Time

DateDrop is a menu-bar date and time picker for macOS.

Hit the global hotkey, pick a date, time, format, and time zones, and ⌘↩ inserts the formatted string into whichever app was frontmost — your email, your calendar invite, your code, your notes.

WHAT’S INSIDE

• Drops down from the menu bar. Click the calendar icon (or hit the global hotkey, default ⌃⌥⌘D) and the picker appears. Click outside or press Esc and it’s gone.

• Insert anywhere. ⌘↩ types the formatted string into whatever was frontmost — DateDrop never steals focus, so you stay in your draft.

• Multiple time zones. Pick any time zone in the world; DateDrop renders the time in every selected zone at once. Star your favorites so they’re one click away.

• A dozen formats. Long, Medium, Short, Day of Week, Date Only, Time Only, ISO 8601, RFC 2822, Unix Timestamp, plus a Custom field that takes any UTS #35 / DateFormatter pattern.

• Date ranges. Toggle “to” and DateDrop renders a start–end range with each side independently editable.

• Detach as a window. Pin DateDrop as a free-floating window if you’d rather have it open the whole time instead of summoning it.

• Configurable global hotkey. Bind it to whatever combination feels natural — defaults to ⌃⌥⌘D.

• 24-hour clock optional. Toggle once in Preferences; applies to every preset that has a time component.

• Native and sandboxed. Pure SwiftUI + AppKit. No telemetry, no account, no upload-anywhere — DateDrop runs entirely on your Mac.

• Localized. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

WHO IT’S FOR

Anyone who types dates into things all day — engineers stamping log entries, project managers scheduling across zones, writers logging entries, anyone who has ever typed “Tuesday October 14” and then had to look up whether it’s a Tuesday.