One menu bar slot.
The headline that matters right now.

Minibar keeps a single icon in your Mac's menu bar and fills it with the one line you should see: the next meeting, the build that just failed, the price you are watching. Click it, and the whole dashboard opens.

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macOS 13 or later. English and Simplified Chinese. Free to use; Pro features come later.

The Minibar dashboard: a headline strip and cards for Calendar, Exchange Rates, Weather, Crypto and System

Plugins are tiny JavaScript files

A manifest and one script. They render a declarative UI, run in a sandboxed JavaScriptCore process, and can only reach the hosts they declare.

Four ways to pick the headline

Pin one plugin, rotate, score by priority and freshness, or let the newest urgent event take over for a moment.

Permissions you can see

Every plugin asks for calendar, reminders, location, clipboard, files or notifications separately, and you can revoke each one at any time.

It never freezes your menu bar

Plugins run in a separate process with a watchdog. A plugin that hangs is stopped after five seconds; the rest keep working.

A market you can audit

Every plugin's source is readable inside the app. The registry is signed, packages are checksummed, and community submissions are reviewed in the open.

No accounts, no telemetry

Settings and plugin data stay in the sandboxed container on your Mac. The app never phones home.

A closer look

Everything below runs on your Mac. Dark mode shown; light mode follows the system.

**The Market** Featured picks, categories, and a card for every plugin. Install, update, or go back in one click.

**Know before you install** Every plugin page lists exactly what it can access and which hosts it may contact.

**Settings** Choose how the headline is picked, manage plugins and permissions, and add your own sources.

Ten plugins out of the box

Installed with the app, no accounts needed. Weather and System show data within a minute of the first launch.

Calendar

Your next meeting and how long until it starts, from the macOS Calendar.

Crypto

Spot prices and 24-hour change for the coins you follow, from CoinGecko.

Exchange Rates

Daily reference rates for the currency pairs you care about (European Central Bank data via Frankfurter).

GitHub

Unread notifications and pull requests waiting for your review.

Pomodoro

Focus timer with breaks, a daily count and a notification when each phase ends.

Reminders

Open reminders at a glance, with overdue ones first. Tick them off from the menu bar.

RSS

Unread count and the latest headlines from your feeds (RSS 2.0 and Atom).

Stocks

Your watchlist, color-coded, with an intraday sparkline for the headline symbol.

System

CPU, memory, disk, load and network at a glance, memory pressure, and a one-tap Free Up Memory.

Weather

Current conditions, the next hours and today's range for your location and up to five cities, from Open-Meteo.

Write your own in five minutes

A plugin is a folder with manifest.json and main.js. Scaffold one with the CLI, link the folder from Settings, and Minibar reloads it on every save.

// hello/main.js
defineMiniApp({
  render(ctx) {
    const count = ctx.storage.get('count', 0);
    return {
      title: { text: 'Hello ×' + count, icon: 'hand.wave' },
      body: [
        ctx.ui.text('Rendered at ' + ctx.now().toLocaleTimeString(ctx.locale)),
        ctx.ui.button('Bump', 'bump'),
      ],
    };
  },
  actions: {
    bump(ctx) { ctx.storage.set('count', ctx.storage.get('count', 0) + 1); },
  },
});

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Get Minibar

Minibar is in beta. The Mac App Store release is being prepared; until then builds are shared with testers directly, and the support page explains how to send feedback.

Nothing leaves your Mac

Minibar has no accounts, no analytics and no crash reporting. Plugins talk to the services they declare directly from your Mac; Minibar does not proxy or log those requests.

One menu bar slot.The headline that matters right now.