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Top 23 Menubar Open-Source Projects
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MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
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InfluxDB
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.
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ipfs-desktop
An unobtrusive and user-friendly desktop application for IPFS on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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WorkOS
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GodMode
AI Chat Browser: Fast, Full webapp access to ChatGPT / Claude / Bard / Bing / Llama2! I use this 20 times a day.
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Project mention: 18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-27I use "Monitor Control" on my Mac Studio to control the brightness of my Dell monitor:
Project mention: Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-12its not a terminal app like bottom or nvtop but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats and it has iGPU stats
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.
Project mention: Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-03There are a few client options; the most widely used one (to my knowledge) is https://github.com/ipfs/kubo for CLI. There's also a desktop client that's pretty nice: https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/ipfs-desktop/
KeepingYouAwake. Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.
Project mention: Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-22ah a fellow electron app publisher! qq - have you figured out automatic updates yet? i tried to do that in my app (https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode) but everyone just complains about a blank white screen whenever i push an update, if they even receive it at all. feels very flimsy. what do uou recommend for update push best practice?
Project mention: Does anyone know what app I have to get or what setting to change to get my M1 MBA to show its temp on the top bar? | /r/mac | 2023-06-19
Project mention: Show HN: MiniSim – Painless Simulators from Your Mac Menubar | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-28
Project mention: I created an app that launches your apps in the window layout you want | /r/macapps | 2023-05-01The fourth is Later, a simple and nicely designed app that allows you to close and reopen apps and docs. The project has been abandoned, but the dev has made it open source on GitHub, so the code can be reused.
Project mention: New to MacOS - how do I view remaining battery time and screen on time? | /r/mac | 2023-12-05BatteryBoi : https://batteryboi.ovatar.io/
In terms of calendar management, I personally think that the Apple Calendar app is excellent. I use it to manage my course schedules, appointments, and family reservations. Additionally, I use an open-source menu bar app called Calendr to replace the default date and time on my Mac.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2024-03-12.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Menubar projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MonitorControl | 26,005 |
| 2 | stats | 21,919 |
| 3 | bitbar | 17,326 |
| 4 | chatgpt-mac | 6,243 |
| 5 | ipfs-desktop | 5,789 |
| 6 | KeepingYouAwake | 5,450 |
| 7 | LyricsX | 4,501 |
| 8 | GodMode | 3,983 |
| 9 | SpotMenu | 2,906 |
| 10 | Side-Menu.iOS | 2,711 |
| 11 | Loop | 2,634 |
| 12 | Hot | 2,024 |
| 13 | TomatoBar | 1,882 |
| 14 | reminders-menubar | 1,682 |
| 15 | MiniSim | 1,414 |
| 16 | later | 1,401 |
| 17 | BatteryBoi | 822 |
| 18 | acelink | 708 |
| 19 | Spaceman | 668 |
| 20 | pomolectron | 597 |
| 21 | clocker | 555 |
| 22 | Calendr | 555 |
| 23 | mac-local-rtmp-server | 512 |
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