Xbar: Put anything in your macOS menu bar

• bitbar

  50 17,325 3.3 Go

  Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

Just updated from BitBar and ran into a small issue since xbar doesn't support custom plugin folders the same way BitBar did (as in a way to change it via the GUI). Thankfully you can just symlink the plugin folder to your old BitBar folder and everything works as expected. I opened an issue for it here: https://github.com/matryer/xbar/issues/653

• SwiftBar

  18 2,672 6.9 Swift

  Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool

  

I was wondering about why SwiftBar existed when there was already BitBar, and a lot is explained in this thread on Github: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar/issues/95

TL;DR: BitBar stopped working well in Big Sur and the old code base was increasingly hard to update and build.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cyberduck

  105 2,953 9.9 Java

  Cyberduck is a libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive and OpenStack Swift file transfer client for Mac and Windows.

  

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far:

https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck

• barbly

  1 14 0.0 Haskell

  Display output of scripts in the macOS status 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

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