macOS menu bar · source-available
GitHub, one glance away.
gbar lives in your menu bar and pulls together everything you care about on GitHub: pull requests, issues, your notification inbox, CI runs, releases, and the actions to clear them. No tab, no context switch.
brew install --cask jaylann/tap/gbar
Features
Everything you check GitHub for, without opening GitHub.
Five tabs. All of GitHub's pulse.
PRs, issues, your notification inbox, CI runs and releases: each a tab with a live count. The menu-bar badge stays honest; it counts only what needs you, review requests and assignments.
CI status, per check
Not just a summary dot: every check on your PR, with state and duration.
Approve with a comment
Review requests disclose an inline composer. Type a note or send an empty approval; the row clears the moment it lands.
Merge your way
Merge, squash or rebase straight from the row. gbar only offers the strategies the repo actually has enabled.
Filters that triage for you
One tap isolates failing CI or PRs waiting on your review. Starred repos get a marker and their own filter on every tab.
Saved queries, routed to the right tab
Any GitHub search becomes its own menu section, sent to PRs, Issues, or auto-detected. Qualifiers autocomplete while you type.
Search, without a page load
Search slides in over any tab and filters it as you type.
CI for the repos you care about
A curated watchlist feeds the CI tab: every workflow run (scheduled and manual included) with failures front and center.
A what-shipped digest
The Releases tab collects new releases across your watchlist: read the changelog before anyone asks about it.
An inbox that empties itself
Notifications filter by why you got them (review requested, mentioned, assigned) and one click marks everything read.
Desktop notifications
New PRs, review requests and CI results as native macOS banners, with per-category toggles. CI only pings when a run actually finishes.
Review requested
jaylann/gbar#142 · per-check CI status
Checks passed
jaylann/gbar#139 · 3 of 3 successful
Accounts, orgs & Enterprise
Multiple accounts side by side; rows carry a badge for where they came from. GitHub Enterprise works too: point it at any API base URL. Tokens live in the Keychain, nowhere else.
jaylann
github.com
justin.l
ghe.internal.corp
Quickstart
In your menu bar in a minute.
Signed .dmg or Homebrew cask, same notarized build either way. No Xcode, no compiling.
Sign in with GitHub's device flow; tokens live in the macOS Keychain. Or run your own OAuth app and build from source.
- 01Download gbar.dmg from the latest release
- 02Drag gbar to Applications and launch it
- 03Sign in with GitHub: one code, no password
brew install --cask jaylann/tap/gbarPricing
Free. Yours to run.
No feature gates, no telemetry, no account. Download the signed .dmg, sign in with GitHub, and you're done.
Self-host
freeThe whole app, on your machine, talking straight to GitHub. Nothing in between.
Follow the quickstart- Every feature, no limits
- Sign in with GitHub, or paste a personal access token
- Signed .dmg download or Homebrew cask
- Build from source if you'd rather read it first
License, plainly
Source-available, on purpose.
gbar ships under the PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0. You may use, self-host, modify and redistribute it freely, but not to build a product or service that competes with gbar.
That's not an OSI-approved “open source” license, and that's deliberate: it keeps gbar from being repackaged and resold out from under the project. All the code is on GitHub; read it before you run it.