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Menubar projects on GitHub

macOS utilities that live in the system menu bar for quick access.

As of , the most-starred Menubar projects on GitHub are stats (42.6K stars), MonitorControl (34.5K stars) and BetterDisplay (34.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 29 Menubar repositories with 274.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was magpie, with +960 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+960

magpie

yetone/magpie · ★ 15.3K

Magpie is a menu bar app that lists every AI coding agent installed on your machine next to the model each one is currently set to; click a value and pick a different model from a dropdown.

+205

vorssaint-utils

vorssaint/vorssaint-utils · ★ 28K

A free, open-source macOS app that packs the utilities Mac users usually buy one by one — volume mixer, system monitor, app switcher, clipboard history, uninstaller and more — behind a single menu bar icon.

+57

Insomnia

krishhgg/Insomnia · ★ 1.5K

Insomnia is a native macOS menu bar app that keeps a MacBook awake for a timed session, even with the lid closed, so long-running work like AI agent sessions can keep running safely.

+28

tendedero

alejandrobujan/tendedero · ★ 2.3K

Tendedero is a tiny native macOS app that hangs every screenshot you take on a line just below the menu bar, instead of letting it pile up on your Desktop.

The all-time top

29 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · exelban/stats

    stats

    A free, open-source macOS system monitor in your menu bar: it shows CPU, GPU, memory, disk and network usage, battery level, temperatures, Bluetooth devices and a multi-timezone clock.

    42.6K
  2. #2 · MonitorControl/MonitorControl

    MonitorControl

    MonitorControl is a free, open-source macOS app that controls your external display's brightness, volume and contrast as if it were a native Apple Display — via Apple keyboard keys, custom shortcuts or menu bar sliders.

    34.5K
  3. #3 · waydabber/BetterDisplay

    BetterDisplay

    BetterDisplay is a macOS menu bar app that unlocks extra display controls on your Mac, including flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR brightness boosts, DDC and HDMI-CEC hardware control, virtual screens, and picture-in-picture streaming.

    34.1K
  1. 4

    Ice

    29.8Kjordanbaird/Ice · Swift

    Ice is a menu bar manager for macOS that lets you hide and show individual menu bar items, with a growing set of extra features aimed at making it one of the most versatile menu bar tools around.

  2. 5

    vorssaint-utils

    28Kvorssaint/vorssaint-utils · Swift

    A free, open-source macOS app that packs the utilities Mac users usually buy one by one — volume mixer, system monitor, app switcher, clipboard history, uninstaller and more — behind a single menu bar icon.

  3. 6

    xbar

    18.1Kmatryer/xbar · Go

    xbar is a macOS menu bar app that puts the output of any script or program right into your menu bar. It is the reboot of BitBar, completely rewritten from the ground up in Go.

  4. 7

    magpie

    15.3Kyetone/magpie · Go

    Magpie is a menu bar app that lists every AI coding agent installed on your machine next to the model each one is currently set to; click a value and pick a different model from a dropdown.

  5. 8

    codeburn

    11.5Kgetagentseal/codeburn · TypeScript

    CodeBurn is a free, open-source, local-first tool that tracks AI coding token usage and cost across 41 tools and agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Grok and more — broken down by model, project, and task.

  6. 9

    pock

    10.2Kpock/pock · Swift

    Pock is a free, open-source widgets manager for the MacBook's Touch Bar that gives quick access to your favorite controls and services while maximizing your on-screen real estate.

  7. 10

    FineTune

    9.8Kronitsingh10/FineTune · Swift

    FineTune is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app for sound control: per-app volume with up to 4x boost, audio routing to multiple output devices, and a 10-band EQ with headphone correction — pitched as an alternative to SoundSource.

  8. 11

    whatcable

    8.9Kdarrylmorley/whatcable · Swift

    A macOS menu bar app that tells you in plain English what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — and why your Mac might be charging slowly.

  9. 12

    clicky

    7.7Kfarzaa/clicky · Swift

    Clicky is an AI teacher that lives next to your cursor: it sees your screen, talks to you, and can even point at things on screen, like having a real teacher sitting beside you.

  10. 13

    Mouser

    5.3KTomBadash/Mouser · Python

    Mouser is a lightweight, open-source, fully local app for remapping Logitech HID++ mice (like the MX Master and MX Anywhere series), built as a free alternative to Logitech Options+.

  11. 14

    quotio

    4.9Knguyenphutrong/quotio · Rust

    Quotio is a native macOS menu bar app for managing CLIProxyAPI, a local proxy server that unifies multiple AI provider accounts (Claude, OpenAI Codex, Qwen, Vertex AI, iFlow, Antigravity, Kiro, GitHub Copilot) with quota tracking and automatic failover.

  12. 15

    OpenWhip

    3.8KGitFrog1111/OpenWhip · HTML

    A joke desktop app for when Claude Code is too slow: a whip lives in your system tray, and whipping him sends Claude Code a Ctrl-C interrupt plus one of five encouraging messages.

  13. 16

    tendedero

    2.3Kalejandrobujan/tendedero · Swift

    Tendedero is a tiny native macOS app that hangs every screenshot you take on a line just below the menu bar, instead of letting it pile up on your Desktop.

  14. 17

    Insomnia

    1.5Kkrishhgg/Insomnia · Swift

    Insomnia is a native macOS menu bar app that keeps a MacBook awake for a timed session, even with the lid closed, so long-running work like AI agent sessions can keep running safely.

  15. 18

    Doll

    1.2Kxiaogdgenuine/Doll · Swift

    Doll is a Mac app that keeps the unread badges of message apps like Mail, Slack and Teams visible in the macOS Menu bar, so new messages catch your eye on any screen.

  16. 19

    macos-sysdata

    946Jarvis322/macos-sysdata · Swift

    It's a free macOS menu bar app that opens up the vague 'System Data' bucket in Storage settings and shows exactly what's filling it (simulator runtimes, Xcode caches, package manager stores, VM disks, logs, per-app data) so you can delete items one by one instead of guessing.

  17. 20

    mac-performance-monitor

    938Zesty0wl/mac-performance-monitor · Swift

    A native macOS performance monitor and recorder that tracks CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery, and sensor readings, letting you compare them against the processes behind them. It works as a menu bar readout, a quiet background recorder, or a window you open when needed.

  18. 21

    dimble

    874fif7y/dimble · Swift

    Pelmet is a free, open-source macOS menu bar manager: it hides the icons you don't need until you do, and hover, click or a shortcut slides them back.

  19. 22

    window-sweaters

    803saragordic/window-sweaters · C

    Window Sweaters is a playful macOS menu-bar app that wraps your app windows in knitted sweater borders, with colours inspired by your favourite apps.

  20. 23

    rooms

    391saragordic/rooms · Swift

    Rooms is a macOS app for switching between projects: each 'room' is a saved set of windows with a layout, and one shortcut brings them all back arranged neatly while hiding everything else.

  21. 24

    lanmessenger

    374lanmessenger/lanmessenger · C++

    LAN Messenger is a native desktop chat application for Windows, Mac and Linux, built with Qt 6 and C++, that lets people exchange messages over a local area network. It also supports event sounds, a system tray/menu bar icon, and a multilanguage interface.

  22. 25

    better-voice

    281TarunTomar122/better-voice · Swift

    BetterVoice is an experimental, open-source macOS menu-bar app for voice dictation. It transcribes speech locally and also captures the screen area you circle with your pointer while talking, so the transcript comes with visual context.

  23. 26

    OpenYoink

    231MuQY1818/OpenYoink · Swift

    OpenYoink is a free, open-source macOS utility that lets you drag files, images, text, and links onto a temporary shelf at the screen edge or into the Mac's Dynamic Island, then drag them out again once you've switched to the target window. It's built with SwiftUI + AppKit and lives in the menu bar without a Dock icon.

  24. 27

    murmur-youtube

    219per-simmons/murmur-youtube · Swift

    Murmur is a push-to-talk dictation app: hold a hotkey, talk, release, and the cleaned-up transcript is typed into whatever text field currently has focus. It runs natively and fully on-device, with separate builds for macOS (Swift) and Windows (C#/Avalonia).

  25. 28

    ambient-context

    205dragthelake/ambient-context · Rust

    Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar app that silently records what you work on throughout the day and turns it into plain markdown files your AI assistant can use as context.

  26. 29

    WakeGPT

    164Awaker-OTE/WakeGPT · Rust

    WakeGPT is a local-first desktop app for quickly capturing text, Markdown, links, and images, and letting them grow into durable Markdown notes you can later reuse as context in ChatGPT.

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