Year progress 2026

The famous progress bar, living on your desk

You've seen the year-progress bar on Twitter — a tweet a percent, a million views a year. This is the version you don't have to follow: the Mac app paints it straight onto your wallpaper and moves it at midnight. Prefer dots to bars? See the weeks left or make your whole life in weeks.

Why a progress bar works on a year

Progress bars are honest in a way calendars aren't: they show proportion, not dates. The year's bar moves about 0.27% per day — invisible in a glance, unmistakable in a week — which is exactly the cadence at which plans drift. The famous Twitter bot proved the format; a bar you see daily on your own wallpaper is the version that changes behavior rather than entertains a feed.

Related counts: days left in the year · weeks left · this week's number.