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Menubar-app projects on GitHub

Small utilities living in the macOS menu bar for quick controls.

As of , the most-starred Menubar-app projects on GitHub are BetterDisplay (34.1K stars), Ice (29.8K stars) and omlx (22.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 24 Menubar-app repositories with 190.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was DigUp, with +273 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+273

DigUp

ARahim3/DigUp · ★ 5K

DigUp is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that lets you search the files on your Mac by what's actually in them — photos, PDFs, documents, recordings, videos and code — using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 model running entirely on-device.

+69

coucou

Louis-CFM/coucou · ★ 5.6K

Coucou is a small animated character named Mochi that lives in your Mac's notch (or the top edge of the screen on Windows) and watches your AI coding agent sessions — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Antigravity — so you can approve permission requests and chat with Claude right from there.

+32

omlx

jundot/omlx · ★ 22.9K

oMLX is a local LLM inference server for Apple Silicon Macs. It serves text LLMs, vision models, OCR, embeddings and rerankers with continuous batching and a tiered KV cache, managed from the macOS menu bar.

+31

CodexBar

steipete/CodexBar · ★ 22.7K

CodexBar is a tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider usage limits visible and shows when each usage window resets, so you can plan long tasks instead of guessing whether you have quota left.

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24 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · 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
  2. #2 · jordanbaird/Ice

    Ice

    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.

    29.8K
  3. #3 · jundot/omlx

    omlx

    oMLX is a local LLM inference server for Apple Silicon Macs. It serves text LLMs, vision models, OCR, embeddings and rerankers with continuous batching and a tiered KV cache, managed from the macOS menu bar.

    22.9K
  1. 4

    CodexBar

    22.7Ksteipete/CodexBar · Swift

    CodexBar is a tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider usage limits visible and shows when each usage window resets, so you can plan long tasks instead of guessing whether you have quota left.

  2. 5

    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.

  3. 6

    Thaw

    12.2Kthaw-app/Thaw · Swift

    Thaw is an open source menu bar manager for macOS that lets you hide, organize, and restyle your menu bar icons, with hover/click/scroll reveal gestures, hotkeys, and conditional triggers.

  4. 7

    boring.notch

    11.1KTheBoredTeam/boring.notch · Swift

    Boring Notch turns your MacBook's notch into a dynamic control hub: it becomes a music player with a live visualizer, calendar integration, a file shelf with AirDrop support, and a full replacement for macOS's volume/brightness/backlight HUDs.

  5. 8

    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.

  6. 9

    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.

  7. 10

    coucou

    5.6KLouis-CFM/coucou · Swift

    Coucou is a small animated character named Mochi that lives in your Mac's notch (or the top edge of the screen on Windows) and watches your AI coding agent sessions — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Antigravity — so you can approve permission requests and chat with Claude right from there.

  8. 11

    DigUp

    5KARahim3/DigUp · Swift

    DigUp is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that lets you search the files on your Mac by what's actually in them — photos, PDFs, documents, recordings, videos and code — using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 model running entirely on-device.

  9. 12

    quill

    3.9Khumanitas-labs/quill · Swift

    quill is a minimal, fully local macOS meeting recorder and transcriber. One menu-bar click records your mic and all system audio; when you stop, it transcribes both tracks on-device into a speaker-tagged transcript.

  10. 13

    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.

  11. 14

    macos-sysdata

    952Jarvis322/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.

  12. 15

    dimble

    886fif7y/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.

  13. 16

    window-sweaters

    804saragordic/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.

  14. 17

    mactap-app

    706jaskirat1616/mactap-app · Swift

    MacTap lets you knock on your MacBook's chassis (or the desk under it) to trigger shortcuts like copy, paste, Accept, screenshots, or media controls.

  15. 18

    bluey-by-riley

    443rbrown101010/bluey-by-riley · Swift

    Googly Eyes is a blueberry character that lives on your iPhone screen and points at things on your Mac with his own cursor. It pairs a Mac menu bar app with an iPhone app so he can see your screen, talk through OpenAI's Realtime API, and even control your computer when asked.

  16. 19

    macspace-releases

    4131architect/macspace-releases · Swift

    MacSpace is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows what fills your disk's System Data, frees what's safe to delete, and can turn off Apple Intelligence (deleting the on-device models) plus Apple's background analytics and data-collection features.

  17. 20

    rooms

    393saragordic/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.

  18. 21

    Sapphire

    342cshariq/Sapphire · Swift

    Sapphire is a macOS app that turns the MacBook notch into an activity hub, showing things like now-playing media, weather, and calendar events, plus extra tools like nearby file sharing and window snapping.

  19. 22

    what-the-port

    258tomjohndesign/what-the-port · Swift

    WhatThePort is a native Swift menu bar app for macOS that shows every local development server running on your Mac: project name, port, git branch, uptime, and resource use, so you can open, restart, or stop them without hunting through terminal windows.

  20. 23

    OpenYoink

    237MuQY1818/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.

  21. 24

    leftopen

    132SonghaiFan/leftopen · Swift

    LeftOpen is a native macOS menu bar app and CLI that shows what is listening on localhost, identifies which project or process owns each port, and lets you gently close them.

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