Top MENUBAR GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Switch between projects on your Mac. Every project is a room: its windows, laid out, one shortcut away.

Free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. Native card-style UI with Pinboards, Quick Look, and 100% local storage.

macOS menu-bar app for fine-grained VPN routing: bypass the VPN for chosen domains/services, force others through it, or (Custom mode) route each domain/subnet out a specific egress — direct, a specific VPN, an HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy, or a Tailscale peer. Includes a vpnb CLI.

Free, open-source menu bar toolkit for macOS. Eighteen tools in one panel: Pomodoro timer, time tracker, keep-awake, system monitor, clipboard history, file converter, window manager, torrents, archives, OCR, screenshots, draw on screen, color picker, VPN switcher, app launcher, uninstaller, keyboard lock, speed test. SwiftUI, no telemetry, MIT.

Live Scores, Designed for Mac

Candela protects your displays from OLED burn-in and wear: panel health history, a checkup for defects, and the controls macOS leaves out for external monitors (brightness, volume, contrast, custom resolutions, HiDPI scaling). Free and open source.

Native macOS lid-angle frosted glass desktop effect. Swift, AppKit and Metal.

Clipboard history, screenshot-to-clipboard, screen OCR, window snapping and trackpad volume — the Windows features macOS never shipped. A dependency-free Swift menu-bar app for Windows-to-Mac switchers.

A macOS menu bar whale that shows whether DeepSeek is in peak or off-peak pricing.

macOS menu bar app: Claude quota with pace

Claude Code and Codex in your Mac menu bar: see which AI coding agent is working, waiting for you or running background tasks, get alerts before weekly and 5-hour usage limits run out, and add desktop widgets. Free, open source, native macOS.

Privacy-first backups for your Mac, to storage you own.

See how many times over each AI plan has paid for itself — Claude Code, Codex and the rest, priced against the published API rates, at the edge of your Mac's screen.

Looks asleep. Isn't. — keeps your Mac awake with the lid shut while an AI coding agent is working, and lets it sleep the moment it's only waiting for you.

Native open-source system monitor for macOS — Apple Silicon, SMC sensors, processes, disks, network and system health.

A free and open-source collection of native macOS menu bar tools.