Read every field
See what the minute, hour, day, month, and weekday fields mean, with warnings when standard cron behavior may be easy to misread.
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CRON PARSER
See when a cron schedule will run.
Enter a standard five-field expression or a supported alias. Read its meaning, preview expected runs, and make supported schedule changes with a clear timezone.
Download for Mac
Free download. Requires macOS 14 or later.
WHAT IT HELPS WITH
Understand the schedule before it surprises you.
Preview the runs
Review earlier and upcoming matches in the selected timezone, with Automatic, UTC, or Local comparison values.
Adjust and count
Use common cadence and day controls, apply a supported time shift, or count every match inside a date range.
STANDARD CRON
From five fields to a useful explanation.
For example, 0 9 * * 1-5 becomes a weekday schedule at 9:00 in the timezone you selected.
Supported aliases such as @hourly, @daily, and @weekly can be read through the same workflow.
5 fieldsMinute-level standard cron
5 upcoming runsA bounded preview from the selected timezone
Exact range countCount matching runs between two times
INCLUDED IN FREE
The complete current cron workflow.
Parsing, explanation, warnings, run previews, schedule adjustments, date-range counts, inspector rows, and copy actions are included in Free.
PREFERENCES ONLY
Your schedule is not saved.
The selected timezone and comparison choice can be restored on this Mac. The raw cron expression stays in the current workbench session.
LOCAL BY DEFAULT
Your schedule stays on your Mac.
Cron parsing, explanation, run generation, adjustments, and date-range counting run locally. The workbench makes no network request.
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