Releases: Kierkels/bonk
Release list
Bonk 1.16
Bonk 1.16 lets you make the menu bar your own, makes it obvious when Bonk is paused, and adds a faster way to set reminders.
New
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Choose your menu-bar icon. Bonk no longer has to be a bell. Pick the symbol that fits you — bell, bell with dot, burst (the logo look), exclamation, alarm, calendar, calendar with clock, clock or sparkles. Your choice shows everywhere the icon appears: the plain menu-bar icon, the icon next to the countdown/title, the coloured highlight pill, and the header of the menu. Settings → Display → Menu bar → Icon.
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A clear "paused" state. When you switch Bonk off, you can now see it at a glance: the menu-bar icon dims and gets a small pause badge, and the menu says "Bonk is paused" with a short explanation instead of looking like there's simply nothing coming up. While paused, adding a reminder is turned off too (both the menu button and the global shortcut), so it's clear nothing will fire until you switch Bonk back on.
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Quicker reminders — "in X minutes" or an exact time. The new-reminder window now has two modes. Pick In… for a relative time with one-tap presets (5 / 15 / 30 min, 1 / 2 h) or a custom amount in minutes or hours, or pick At time for an exact moment like before. The description field is now multi-line, so longer notes fit.
Fixed
- Ignored meetings no longer come back when you show fewer days. Previously, if you dismissed ("ignore") a meeting a few days out and then shrank the menu's display window (e.g. from 5 days to 2), that meeting fell out of view and your choice was forgotten — so it reappeared later. Your ignore and "show again" choices now stick until the meeting actually ends, regardless of how many days you have on display.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.16.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.15
Bonk's subtle alert is now a pill at the top of your screen — replacing the old macOS notification, which couldn't offer one-click join or snooze.
✨ New
- Pill alert for the "Notification" style. Choose it per rule (or for reminders) instead of the full-screen alert. It shows an icon, the title, a live countdown, and the room/location.
- One-click actions, right on the pill: Join (green, for meetings with a link), Done (for reminders), a Snooze menu (1 / 2 / 5 / 10 minutes, plus until it starts), and Close.
- Click the pill body to open the item in Calendar.
- Stays out of your way: the pill floats above full-screen apps, never steals keyboard focus, stacks when several fire at once, and follows the screen you're working on across multiple displays.
- Lock-screen fallback: while your Mac is locked the pill can't be seen, so Bonk sends a regular notification instead.
🛠 Improvements
- The pill's close (×) button now uses the intended subtle grey instead of an accent-tinted glyph.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.15.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.14
Quickly create reminders with your own global shortcut, jump to any meeting in your calendar, and a clearer settings layout.
✨ New
- Quick-reminder shortcut — set your own system-wide keyboard shortcut to instantly open the "New reminder" window, even when Bonk isn't focused. Configure it in Settings → Reminders; the shortcut also shows next to Add reminder… in the menu.
- Open in calendar — every meeting in the menu gets a calendar button that opens the event in Google Calendar (web link) or the macOS Calendar app. Toggle it under Display → Menu.
🛠 Improvements
- Reworked settings for a clearer split between menu bar and menu: the Display tab now has distinct Menu bar, Menu bar highlight and Menu sections.
- The appearance-presets tab is now called Alerts, and presets are now called Styles.
- The light/dark option is now called Theme.
- The reminder editor focuses the title field on open, so you can start typing right away.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.14.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.13
Small refinement to the full-screen meeting alert.
🛠 Improvements
- The ✕ button on a full-screen meeting alert is now Close — it only dismisses the alert (just like Esc) instead of marking the meeting as ignored. Ignoring a meeting is now done from the menu only, so the alert no longer sends meetings to the "Ignored" list by accident.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.13.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.12
What's new in 1.12
- Fix: Settings section footers were rendering large, centered and bright on macOS 26. They're now back to the familiar subtle, small, left-aligned grey text.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download `Bonk-1.12.dmg` below, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.11
What's new in 1.11
Reminders
- Schedule reminders on a date (no longer today only), with separate date and time fields.
- Repeat: every day, weekdays (Mon–Fri), or weekly with your own day selection.
- Snooze until the set time: if the alert shows before the time, you can have it come back exactly at the scheduled moment.
- Snoozing no longer shifts the displayed time and ignores the lead time; a snoozed reminder stays put until you actually close it and no longer disappears from the list.
Sound
- Pick a custom sound file for alerts, with a preview (including a stop button) and a button to remove it again.
Menu
- The meeting list is now scrollable and there's always a gear in the header — Settings stays reachable even with a long list.
- Click a meeting or reminder to expand its description (the Join button keeps working).
- Once an item has started, the menu bar shows the title instead of "busy", and the counter runs negative ("already started"). A meeting in progress still shows "In progress".
HOW TO INSTALL
Download `Bonk-1.11.dmg` below, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.10
Bonk 1.10 finally tells you the truth about whether you're actually attending.
✨ New
- Real RSVP status — instead of a blunt "Accepted", meetings now show one of: Accepted, Invited (awaiting your response), For info (no personal RSVP — e.g. shared or year calendars), or Declined. Reminders show no badge.
- Filter rules by status — a rule can require one or more statuses (for example accepted and/or invited). "Accepted" now strictly means meetings you actually accepted.
🐛 Fixes
- No more false "Accepted" — events on a shared calendar that you were never invited to (where the calendar itself sneaks in as an "accepted" participant) are now correctly shown as For info instead of Accepted.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.10.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.9
Bonk 1.9 fixes a menu glitch and gives the menu bar its own "today only" switch.
🐛 Fixes
- Menu popover resizes correctly — when its content gets smaller (for example switching the display window from 3 days back to today only), the menu now shrinks back instead of keeping an oversized, glitchy window.
🛠 Improvements
- Menu-bar "today only" — the Display tab's first section is now called Menu bar and has an Only for today's meetings toggle. With it on, the menu-bar countdown / title / highlight only appears when your next meeting is today — independent of how many days the menu list itself shows.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.9.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.8
Bonk 1.8 makes rules more flexible and sound behaviour simpler and more predictable.
✨ New
- Multi-calendar rules — a rule can now target multiple calendars at once, via an inline checklist (with calendar colours). Only calendars you actually follow are shown.
- Adjustable alarm length — for a repeating (alarm) sound you can set how long it keeps going before it stops on its own.
🛠 Improvements
- Sound plays at your system volume — the per-rule volume control is gone (it fought with the mute-override and was confusing). Play even when muted now simply takes your Mac off mute for the alarm and restores the mute afterwards — at the volume you already have set.
🐛 Fixes
- Calendar list stays current — newly added or synced calendars now show up right away (on calendar changes and when you open Settings), instead of only after a restart.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.8.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.
Bonk 1.7
Bonk 1.7 polishes the menu and settings — clearer when something's empty, and easier to see what changed.
🛠 Improvements
- Readable update banner — the "Update available" banner in the menu now uses clear text on the purple tint with a subtle border, instead of low-contrast purple-on-purple.
- Helpful empty state — when no meetings are coming up, the menu adds a subtle hint that it may be due to your filters, naming your display window (today only / next X days).
- Version & release notes in Settings — Settings → Updates now shows your current version, a Status row, and a "See what's new" link straight to your installed version's release notes.
HOW TO INSTALL
Download
Bonk-1.7.dmgbelow, open the DMG and drag Bonk to Applications. Bonk is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer account), so macOS can't verify it. The first time you open it, macOS will block it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Bonk and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (Only needed once.) See Apple's guide if you get stuck.