Custom status bar for macOS. Replaces the boring default bar with something actually nice to look at.

Glance is a status bar replacement for macOS. It sits at the top of your screen and shows you the stuff you actually care about: workspaces, current track, volume, Wi-Fi, battery, time. Everything is configurable through a simple TOML file or a Settings GUI.

Built with native Swift and SwiftUI. No Electron, no web views, no bloat.

• Liquid Glass UI with blur, gradient borders, glow, and shadows
• 11 built-in presets so you can match your setup
• 16 widgets — spaces, now playing, weather, battery, volume, brightness, bluetooth, clipboard, pomodoro, and more
• Native macOS Spaces out of the box (yabai and AeroSpace also supported)
• Rich popups for every widget: calendar with events, network speed, battery health, now playing with progress bar
• 4 bar formations: full, floating, islands, pills
• Custom script widgets — run any shell command and display its output in the bar
• Auto-updates via Sparkle
• TOML config with live reload. Edit, save, see changes instantly
• Settings GUI if you don't want to touch config files
• Global hotkey (Ctrl+Option+B) to toggle bar visibility
• Fullscreen auto-hide — bar fades when apps go fullscreen
• Window gap management so maximized windows don't hide behind the bar
• Launch at Login via native macOS login items

Plus spacer and divider for layout.

Pick one line in your config and the whole bar changes:

Liquid Glass	Frosted
Tokyo Night	Dracula
Nord	Catppuccin
Gruvbox	Solarized
Neon	Flat Dark
Minimal

No need to edit files if you don't want to. The Settings GUI covers presets, appearance tuning, widget order, and more.

brew tap azixxxxx/tap
brew install --cask glance

Grab the latest .dmg from Releases, open it, drag Glance.app to /Applications. Done.

Requires Xcode 16+ and macOS 14.6+.

git clone https://github.com/azixxxxx/glance.git
cd glance

xcodebuild -project Glance.xcodeproj -scheme Glance -configuration Release \
  -derivedDataPath build build \
  CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY=- CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO

cp -R build/Build/Products/Release/Glance.app /Applications/
open /Applications/Glance.app

Config lives at ~/.glance-config.toml. It's created on first launch. Changes are picked up instantly.

theme = "dark"

# Switch preset and the whole look changes
preset = "liquid-glass"

# Or tweak individual values
# [appearance]
# roundness = 50          # 0 = square, 50 = capsule
# border-width = 1.0
# fill-opacity = 0.04
# foreground-color = "#ffffff"
# accent-color = "#ffffff"

[widgets]
displayed = [
    "default.spaces",
    "divider",
    "default.activeapp",
    "default.nowplaying",
    "spacer",
    "default.weather",
    "default.systemmonitor",
    "default.disk",
    "default.volume",
    "default.network",
    "default.inputlanguage",
    "default.brightness",
    "default.clipboard",
    "default.bluetooth",
    "divider",
    "default.time",
]

# Custom script widget — run any command, show output in bar
# [widgets.script.vpn]
# command = "scutil --ncs | grep -q Connected && echo '🟢 VPN' || echo '🔴 VPN'"
# interval = 10

[widgets.default.time]
format = "E d MMM, H:mm"
calendar.format = "H:mm"
calendar.show-events = true

[widgets.default.battery]
show-percentage = true

[widgets.default.spaces]
space.show-key = true
window.show-title = true

liquid-glass, frosted, flat-dark, minimal, neon, tokyo-night, dracula, gruvbox, nord, catppuccin, solarized

Uses ICU patterns: E d MMM, H:mm gives you Thu 6 Mar, 17:14. See ICU Date Format Patterns for all options.

Works with native macOS Spaces by default. Also supports:

• yabai via yabai.path = "/opt/homebrew/bin/yabai"
• AeroSpace via aerospace.path = "/opt/homebrew/bin/aerospace"

Glance asks for a few permissions on first launch:

All permissions are optional. The app works without them, you just lose the specific features.

• macOS 14.6 (Sonoma) or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel Mac

MIT