Open code. Open minds. Open source menu bar apps.

LyricsX finds the lyrics to whatever you’re playing and shows them in sync, in your menu bar or floating on your desktop. Double-click a line to jump to that moment in the song. Open source, and kept alive by a community fork after the original developer moved on.
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This lightweight open-source clipboard manager does one job: keeping your copy history at hand.
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Mater simply runs a 25 minute timer, resets for a 5 minute break, and repeats until you stop it.
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KeepingYouAwake prevents your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated. Inspired by Caffeine.
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Do Not Disturb watches for the one moment most physical attacks on a laptop have in common: someone opening the lid. If that happens while you’re away, it alerts you, and it can send a message to your phone via Telegram, optionally with a webcam photo of whoever opened it.
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SpotMenu shows what’s playing in Spotify or Apple Music right in your menu bar. Hover for album art and playback controls, skip tracks with global shortcuts, and even like Spotify songs without opening Spotify.
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stts keeps an eye on the status pages of the cloud services you rely on, from Firebase to PagerDuty to Loom, and shows how they’re doing with a single click in your menu bar. It stays out of the way and only speaks up when something goes down or comes back online.
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Background Music is a lightweight macOS audio utility that automatically pauses your music when other sounds play, lets you fine-tune volume per app, and even records system audio, all without requiring a restart. Still in alpha, but already impressively capable.
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Thyme keeps things simple: start tracking, focus on your task, and let it quietly remember where your time went so you do not have to.
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This minimal weather app displays current conditions with an elegant icon that supports both dark and light themes beautifully. Choose your location by GPS or zipcode for instant updates.
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