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NeuraBar · Open source
Your macOS menu bar, supercharged.
A small, fast, opinionated workspace that lives in the menu bar — tasks, focus, clipboard, notes, automations, and multi-provider AI, one click away. Local-first, plain JSON storage, no cloud account.
macOS 14+Swift 5.9MIT
- Minimal
- Effective
- Private
- Pluggable
Personal productivity operations
Focus, automation, and local AI share one disciplined workspace.
NeuraBar now carries a software-workspace visual and workflow diagram for tasks, shortcuts, clipboard, automations, local providers, and approval-gated AI actions.
8 tools
11 CLIs
Local-first
- 01
Open
One menu-bar popover
- 02
Act
Task · focus · shortcut
- 03
Approve
Destructive actions stay gated
- 04
Persist
Plain local JSON
- Tools
- 8 in one popover
- Providers
- 11 coding CLIs detected
- Storage
- Local-first
01Tabs
Eight tools you actually use, every day.
One popover. Loads in milliseconds. Persists to plain JSON files you can cat and back up.
Focus
Pomodoro 25 / 5 / 15 with macOS notifications and a session counter.
Shortcuts
Quick-launch tiles for apps, folders, URLs, and shell commands.
Automate
12 one-click automations with run history and approvals for destructive actions.
Clipboard
Persistent history with search, pinning, and dedup — survives reboots.
Notes
Multi-note sidebar, auto-save, no formatting to fight with.
System
Live CPU, memory, disk, battery gauges — cheap to run, accurate enough to act on.
AI
Multi-provider chat with live streaming, slash commands, and approval gates.
02AI providers
Auto-detects what you already have.
On every open, the AI tab scans /usr/local/bin, /opt/homebrew/bin, ~/.local/bin, ~/.cargo/bin, ~/.bun/bin, and falls back to a login-shell command -v. If nothing is detected, NeuraBar prompts you for an API key — no hidden defaults.
In-chat slash commandsAI tab
/screenshots → sort Desktop screenshots by month /trash → empty the Trash (asks for approval) /heic → convert HEIC → JPG on Desktop /<text> → filters the slash menu
01
CLI (local streaming)
claudecodexaideropencodegeminiampgooseqwen-codeplandexcontinueollama
02
API
Anthropic ClaudeOpenAI
03
Desktop apps (handoff)
Claude DesktopChatGPTCodexChatGPT Atlas
03Automate
12 one-click automations.
Each action runs in the background and returns a structured result with stats and a run history. Destructive actions (trash, derived, hidden toggle, lock, sleep) require an explicit Approve press.
01
Files
- Sort screenshots by month
- Sort Downloads by type
- HEIC → JPG
- Largest files report
- Archive old downloads
02
Cleanup
- Installer sweep (.dmg / .pkg / .msi)
- Purge .DS_Store
- Empty Trash (approval)
- Clean Xcode DerivedData
03
System
- Toggle hidden files
- Lock screen
- Sleep display
04Keyboard
Keys, not clicks.
⌘KCommand palette — search across tabs, todos, notes, clipboard, actions
⌘1 – ⌘8Jump to a specific tab
⌘,Open Settings
⌘QQuit
↑ ↓ Enter EscNavigate palette and slash menu
05Install
macOS 14+, Xcode CLI tools, one script.
install01
$ git clone https://github.com/neuraparse/NeuraBar $ cd NeuraBar $ ./build.sh install → swift build -c release → ad-hoc sign NeuraBar.app → copy to /Applications → open NeuraBar.app ✓ menu-bar glyph appears ✓ launch at login enabled ✓ EN / TR localisation auto-detect
try-without-install02
$ ./build.sh
$ open NeuraBar.app
# Tests (71 passing, ~6s)
$ DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer \
swift testNo cloud, no telemetry
Daily use, not demo-ware.
All data lives in ~/Library/Application Support/NeuraBar/ as plain JSON. Use it, fork it, ship something nicer.