# Install utimer with Homebrew, MacPorts

Multifunction timer tool. Version 0.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with macports: sudo port install utimer.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:utimer
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install utimer
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install utimer
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/utimer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:utimer
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4
- **Source summary:** Multifunction timer tool
- **Homepage:** <https://launchpad.net/utimer>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- utimer (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4
## Project history and usage

utimer is a small command-line timer utility recorded in Launchpad as a multifunction timer, countdown, and stopwatch.

### Project history

Launchpad lists the project as created on 2008-12-01 and describes it as no longer maintained. Its upstream code was hosted in Bazaar on Launchpad, which fits the late-2000s pattern of small Unix command-line utilities distributed through source-hosting services and later packaged by system package managers.

### Adoption history

The available official record is thin, but package metadata in this batch shows utimer present in Homebrew and MacPorts, suggesting adoption mainly by users who wanted a tiny terminal timer available from Unix-like package managers rather than a graphical time-management application.

### How it is used

The Launchpad summary describes three basic uses: counting up for a fixed interval, counting down from a duration, and acting as a stopwatch.

### Why package nerds care

utimer matters mostly as a small-package example: a single-purpose CLI preserved by ports collections after upstream maintenance stopped.

### Timeline

- 2008: Launchpad project created.
- Unknown: Project marked no longer maintained in Launchpad.

### Related projects

- Related tools in the package-manager niche include other small terminal timer, countdown, and stopwatch commands rather than a documented upstream project family.

### Sources

- Launchpad API for utimer: project summary, Bazaar VCS, creation date, and unmaintained status.
- source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew and MacPorts package presence.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - utimer: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/utimer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/utimer.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/utimer.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph