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:

/cdm

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

CooldownManager