Cooldown Manager

A customizable cooldown tracker for spells and trinkets with bars, popups, sounds, favorites, and a configurable UI menu.

Overview

Cooldown Manager is a lightweight addon that tracks your spell and trinket cooldowns with clear visual bars, popup alerts, and optional sound notifications.

It helps you react faster in combat by showing exactly when your abilities become available again.

The addon focuses on clarity, customization, and performance, making it perfect for players who want reliable cooldown tracking without unnecessary clutter.

Features

Spell Cooldown Tracking

Cooldown Manager automatically detects spells from your spellbook and tracks their cooldowns.

You can:

• Enable or disable individual spells

• Track only abilities with cooldowns

• Always track the highest learned rank

Each spell is displayed with:

• Spell icon

• Spell name

• Remaining cooldown timer

• Color-changing cooldown bar

Trinket Cooldown Tracking

The addon also tracks both trinket slots.

Features include:

• Separate bars for Trinket 1 and Trinket 2

• Optional sound alerts

• Customizable size and layout

Customizable Cooldown Bars

Cooldown bars can be adjusted to match your UI perfectly.

Options include:

Spell bars

• Width

• Height

Trinket bars

• Width

• Height

Bars automatically reorder based on:

• Favorite spells

• Remaining cooldown time

Ready Popups

When a cooldown finishes, a visual popup animation appears.

You can configure:

• Popup size

• Popup duration

• Popup transparency

• Popup position

Popups can appear:

• over the cooldown bar

• or in the center of the screen

Sound Alerts

Cooldown Manager supports sound notifications when abilities become ready.

You can assign sounds to:

• individual spells

• trinkets

This helps you react instantly without constantly watching the bars.

Favorites System

Mark important abilities as favorites.

Favorite spells:

• appear at the top of the menu

• appear first in the cooldown window

Perfect for prioritizing key abilities.

Test Mode

The addon includes a Test Mode.

Test mode allows you to:

• preview cooldown bars

• test popup animations

• test sounds

• adjust UI placement

This makes configuration much easier.

Lock Frames

You can freely position the cooldown bars anywhere on your screen.

Once everything is placed correctly, enable Frame Lock to prevent accidental movement.

Combat-Only Mode

Optionally show cooldown bars only while in combat.

This keeps your UI clean outside of combat situations.

Multilingual Menu

The addon interface supports multiple languages.

Currently available:

• English

• German

Spell names are always taken directly from the WoW client, so they automatically match your game language.

Slash Command

Open the configuration menu with:

Configuration

Inside the menu you can:

• enable or disable spells

• assign sound alerts

• mark favorite abilities

• adjust bar sizes

• configure popup behavior

• lock frames

• change language

All changes update instantly.

Performance

Cooldown Manager is designed to be:

• lightweight

• efficient

• minimal CPU usage

Cooldowns are only updated when necessary to keep performance smooth even during intense combat.

Perfect For

Cooldown Manager is especially useful for:

• PvP

• Arena

• Battlegrounds

• Raids

• Mythic+

• general cooldown awareness

Future Plans

Possible future improvements include:

• additional sound options

• more UI customization

• minimap button

• profile support