SwiftBar
Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool (by swiftbar)
barbly
Display output of scripts in the macOS status bar (by luke-clifton)
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| SwiftBar | barbly | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 1 | |
| 2,672 | 14 | |
| 4.5% | - | |
| 6.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Swift | Haskell | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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.
barbly
Posts with mentions or reviews of barbly.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-19.
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Xbar: Put anything in your macOS menu bar
I've been using barbly[0] which I wrote to scratch my own itch. It uses a JSON format for describing the menu bars which I found easier to work with. It's aesthetic is slightly different as well.
[0] https://github.com/luke-clifton/barbly
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SwiftBar and barbly you can also consider the following projects:
bitbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
cyberduck - Cyberduck is a libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive and OpenStack Swift file transfer client for Mac and Windows.
DevUtils-app - All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Native macOS app.
optparse-applicative - Applicative option parser
xbar - An tiny XCB information bar.
tldr - 📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
bench - Command-line benchmark tool
finicky - A macOS app for customizing which browser to start
awesome-appwrite - Carefully curated list of awesome Appwrite resources 💪
sdk-for-python - [READ-ONLY] Official Appwrite Python SDK 🐍
LicensePlist - A license list generator of all your dependencies for iOS applications