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matryer/bitbar is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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Posts where bitbar has been mentioned. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects - the last one was on 2021-06-11.

Radar - Check important metrics with a single click
reddit.com/r/SideProject | 2021-06-11

Lovely! I wanted to use https://xbarapp.com/ for something similar, but I think I saw that your app supports building simple HTTP requests. This will save me some of the scripting effort.
Made a xbar plugin to check the delivery date
reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge | 2021-05-28

Oh I love xbar - I wrote some plugins for it. https://xbarapp.com
Is there any Gnome extension that hides tray icons
reddit.com/r/gnome | 2021-05-27

Which DE has something like argos/xbar?
Show HN: MacOCR – OCR any text on screen
news.ycombinator.com | 2021-05-21
Monitor build on MacOS
reddit.com/r/jenkinsci | 2021-04-25

Not sure of an existing one, but it’d probably be pretty trivial to write a script for BitBar/xbar- https://xbarapp.com
Istats free alternative??
reddit.com/r/macapps | 2021-04-20

Other than what was already mentioned. iGlance, tidiemme/monitorbar, or you could "build" something very custom with bitbar (now https://xbarapp.com/) - but there are probably already plugins for that for xbar.
5 Super Useful Menubar Apps For macOS
dev.to | 2021-04-09

You can download and check other plugins here
🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #12
dev.to | 2021-03-30

matryer/xbar – Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar.
Put anything in your macOS menu bar (BitBar rebooted)
reddit.com/r/programming | 2021-03-26
Hi guys is there anyway I can add permanent text in the menu bar (I've marked with red) like not a clickable one just permanent SO that one can write their goals there and not get distracted please tell me
reddit.com/r/MacOS | 2021-03-21

Try xbar xbar-github. You can display any script output on menubar. You create a simple bash/zsh script echoing your goal text. There are lot of other cool plugins available. Check it out. It’s all open source. Have Fun !
Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar
reddit.com/r/patient_hackernews | 2021-03-19

reddit.com/r/hackernews | 2021-03-19
Xbar: Put anything in your macOS menu bar
news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-19

I see XBar seems to be more advanced and more popular.
It has these Advanced APIs like URL schema - https://github.com/matryer/xbar#advanced-apis
and also the GUI for plugins compared to Swiftbar
The tech stack of course is also much different as it's written in Go and Swiftbar as the name applies in Swift.

news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-19

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

news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-19

The old repo is archived in the new one https://github.com/matryer/xbar/tree/master/archive/bitbar