Blipbar lives at the top of your screen, in your MacBook's notch or on any display, and shows your AI usage, agents, deploys, sales, and more.
It's free and runs on macOS 15 or later.
Customize your Blipbar to suit your needs.
When Claude Code or Codex wants to run a command, it drops down with Approve and Deny. Plan limits for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot and Grok can sit beside the notch.
The notch shows today's revenue and how it compares with yesterday at the same time. When a new customer pays, it drops down to tell you. If you sell in more than one store, All Sales adds them into one total.
Drag a photo onto the notch to turn it into a JPEG, or two PDFs to merge them. Videos can be shrunk or made into a GIF the same way. Files held on the Shelf can go to a nearby iPhone with AirDrop.
Tick off a checklist and write notes in the open notch, and a shortcut you set adds a line from any app. The month shows what's on each day from the Calendar app, or only the dates if you'd rather not connect it.
A project you watch shows its build, then production, with the time left. If a build fails, you can redeploy it from the notch.
Pick one of three rules for each thing you add.
Here are a few favorites. Open the notch to find the rest.
Integrations are small TypeScript extensions, and you can share yours as a .blipbar file that anyone can install. These come with Blipbar:
Extensions in the directory install from Blipbar's Settings, and every version is reviewed before it's listed.
There's a command line too. Put blip in front of a long command, like blip npm test, and the notch shows it running and tells you when it's done or failed.
Pick what you'd want, then hover the notch to open it.
Pip is a pixel friend who lives in the notch and reacts to the rest of it. It works while an agent works and puts headphones on while music plays.
I'm Sarim, a solo developer working on Blipbar. I built it because I was tired of checking my AI usage via /usage or opening the app. Follow Blipbar on X at @blipbarapp.
Most notch apps show what's playing and hold files you drop on them, and Blipbar does both. It's mostly for the things you keep checking, like AI usage or a deploy, and anyone can build an integration for something new.
Post it in the Discord.
Yes. Everything that runs on your Mac is free, and nothing free now will become paid. Later I'll add a paid plan for things that need a server, like keeping two Macs in sync.
Into the Mac's Keychain. Blipbar talks to services like Stripe and GitHub straight from your Mac, and there's no account to make.
It shouldn't. At rest, Blipbar and its extensions use about a fifth of a percent of one CPU core.
| Process | Average CPU | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Blipbar | 0.05% | 29 MB |
| Node (extensions) | 0.14% | 55 MB |
Blipbar draws a small black notch at the top of the screen, and it works the same way. It shows on every display by default, and you can pick which in Settings.
Over a fullscreen app on a monitor, it tucks into the top edge. Push the pointer up there or press ⌃⌘B to open it.