Productivity
Pulsebar
A menu bar hub: focus timer, quick text tools, meetings and system stats.
Get for Mac.dmg · 1.3 MB · or download .zip
- Category
- Productivity
- Requires
- macOS 13+
- Size
- 1.3 MB
- Price
- Free
Preview
About Pulsebar
A menu bar hub: focus timer, quick text tools, meetings and system stats.
What it does
- Focus. A Pomodoro timer with adjustable lengths, a session counter and a notch widget at the top of the screen.
- Quick actions. Summarize or tidy the clipboard, or rewrite it with a local Ollama model.
- Meetings, stats and shortcuts. Join the next meeting, mute the microphone, watch CPU, memory and network, and launch your own shortcuts.
Notes
macOS asks for Calendar access. Rewrite needs an Ollama server running. This demo was compiled and launched; the individual tabs have not all been tested.
Information
- Developer
- SiliconDevKit (generated by AI from a prompt)
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon. Apple silicon Macs only (M1 or later), not Intel
- Size
- 1.3 MB (.dmg)
- Version
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
- Signing
- Ad-hoc signed, not notarized
The prompt behind it
This app was generated from the prompt below. Paste it into SiliconDevKit to build your own version, then change it however you like.
Build a menu bar app called Pulsebar that turns the top of the screen into a small productivity hub. The menu bar item shows the running focus timer (or a dot when idle) and opens a popover with five tabs. Focus: a Pomodoro timer with focus, short break and long break lengths you can change, a session counter, a notification and a sound when a phase ends, and a task name field. Quick actions: reads the clipboard text and offers Summarize (extractive, built with NaturalLanguage sentence ranking), Fix spacing and case, Make bullet points, Count words, and Rewrite with a model, which sends the text to the Ollama server at http://localhost:11434 (model chosen from /api/tags) and says clearly when none is running. Meetings: lists today's events from EventKit (ask for calendar access), finds Zoom, Meet and Teams links in each event, shows a Join button for the next one, and a button that toggles the Mac's microphone input mute with CoreAudio. System: live CPU, memory, disk, battery and network speed using host_statistics, ProcessInfo and IOKit, drawn as small Swift Charts sparklines. Shortcuts: a grid of buttons the user can edit, each opening an app, a URL or running a Shortcuts shortcut by name through /usr/bin/shortcuts. Also draw a notch widget: a borderless floating NSPanel centered at the top of the screen that shows the timer as a pill and expands on hover to the current task and next meeting, with a Settings switch to hide it. No Dock icon, and a Launch at login toggle using SMAppService.
Opening it for the first time
- Open the .dmg and drag Pulsebar onto the Applications folder.
- Open it from Applications. macOS may say it can’t check the app for malicious software. Click Done.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. This is needed once. Why this happens. To share an app without the warning, see how to notarize it.
