SwiftBar
Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool (by swiftbar)
bitbar
Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot) (by matryer)
| SwiftBar | bitbar | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 50 | |
| 2,726 | 17,379 | |
| 1.8% | - | |
| 6.7 | 2.9 | |
| 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Swift | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
SwiftBar
Posts with mentions or reviews of SwiftBar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.
- Show HN: SwiftBar 2.0 Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool
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Monitoring menu bar icons (terminal, plist, etc)?
I don't know if this supports your use case, but look into SwiftBar. https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
- Mac app to display JSON data in menu bar?
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Bug Fixes or Alternatives?
I’m in a similar boat. Only one external monitor on an M1 Studio. Every time I restart, GeekTool cannot find the monitor, so I have to manually move all 10 of my geeklets to the main monitor. I looked into moving them via script, but was unsuccessful because the monitor id was inexplicably not identical on geektool’s side between launches (I gather this is a known issue from the developer). Sadly, I have been unable to find an app that sufficiently replicates GeekTools functionality. That being said, I have moved some of my scripts to SwiftBar where they are accessible via the menu bar instead of displayed on the desktop. Works fine for simple text stuff, but not my more graphical calendar. I’m saving this post though, because I still want a true fix/replacement for GeekTool.
- What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
- A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps
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Apps that should be paid, but are not (Part 3)
https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar - Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool
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Quick check of gateway metrics - MacOS only
As many of you, I obsess over the current metrics of my TMHI modem. Opening the app to check it is too cumbersome. On MacOS there is a cool free utility that allows simple scripts to run in the menu called SwiftBar (get it here: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar )
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Looking for an app that sits in the menu bar. When I click it, it pops up a window with my custom text and in my custom styling. Does this exist?
Maybe swiftbar?
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Is there a way to turn the menu bar into one long scrolling stock ticker?
I am sure you could create a stock ticker with SwiftBar https://swiftbar.app. SwiftBar has plugins which write to the menubar using shell scripts. And there are already some stock ticker plugins - I am sure you could modify one of them to meet your needs.
bitbar
Posts with mentions or reviews of bitbar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.
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Home Lab Guide
While no broken out per plug, APC UPS network management cards provide total power output data (current, voltage, frequency, power) via SNMP, which you can log using a wide variety of tools.
And even without external tools, historical power usage logs are available via the APC Web UI.
While I don't currently log anything externally, I use an xbar[1] script[2] to display UPS output current in my Mac menu bar.
[1] https://xbarapp.com
[2] https://jasomill.at/apc-nmc-status.5s.sh
- Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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Show current playing sample rate of DAC in MacOS top menu
5. Download and install xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar
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How can I have signal on the menu bar of macos
Maybe with https://xbarapp.com/ ?
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Menu bar - different menu lists for different Macs
Maybe with xhttps://xbarapp.com/bar? You can also take a look here.
- Mac app to display JSON data in menu bar?
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App that shows bin status in menu bar
Maybe you can use AnyBar https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar/ or xbar https://xbarapp.com/
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App LIST!!!
xbar (Free) xbar is free and open source it allows you to put anything in your macOS menu bar, although the learning cure is high, I would put this in development too..
- What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
- My first idea that I want to write in Go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SwiftBar and bitbar you can also consider the following projects:
DevUtils-app - All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Native macOS app.
Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS
xbar - An tiny XCB information bar.
skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS
tldr - 📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
argos - Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds
finicky - A macOS app for customizing which browser to start
SketchyBar - A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
awesome-appwrite - Carefully curated list of awesome Appwrite resources 💪
macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
sdk-for-python - [READ-ONLY] Official Appwrite Python SDK 🐍
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: