Nick Reiley

Nick Reiley is an independent developer whose compact portfolio is anchored by alarm-cron, a minimalist Windows utility that folds the functions of a recurring alarm clock, countdown timer, and stopwatch into a single system-tray application. Written for users who want unobtrusive time management without the bulk of full-featured PIM suites, the program exposes cron-style syntax for power users while offering simple point-and-click dialogs for everyone else. Typical use cases range from reminding office workers to stand up every hour, to giving cooks an at-a-glance kitchen timer, to letting coders trigger short, focused Pomodoro sprints. Because it lives in the tray, alarm-cron avoids consuming taskbar or desktop space, and its JSON-based configuration makes it easy to back up or migrate settings between PCs. The open-source codebase also encourages hobbyists to extend it with custom sound packs, webhook notifications, or color themes. Although the catalog is presently limited to this one title, the developer’s GitHub presence suggests a preference for lightweight, single-purpose tools that solve everyday annoyances without feature creep. Alarm-cron and any future releases from Nick Reiley are available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest version, and support batch installation alongside other applications.