Install

Download Devbar, open it once, and it lives in your menu bar. Works on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later.

Devbar is a menu-bar app, so it has no Dock icon or main window. After you open it, look for the gauge icon near the clock.

Requirements

A Mac with Apple Silicon
macOS 14 Sonoma or later
For AI quota, a login for the tools you use: the Codex CLI, Claude Code, or Muse. Devbar reuses those logins and never asks for a password of its own.

Download

Get the latest release

Download the .dmg from the latest release on GitHub. Each release also has a .zip and a .pkg installer if you prefer those.

Move it to Applications

Open the disk image and drag Devbar into Applications.

Open it

Open Devbar from Applications or Spotlight. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning.

First run

Click the gauge icon in the menu bar to open the menu. Devbar refreshes your quota right away and then every 10 minutes.

The first time Devbar reads your Claude Code or Muse login, macOS asks whether it can use that item in your Keychain. Choose Always Allow so you aren’t asked again. Devbar reads Keychain items through the system’s security tool, so one approval keeps working after updates.

To start Devbar when you log in, turn on Launch at login in Settings.

Build from source

Devbar is a Swift package. To build and run a debug copy:

git clone https://github.com/praveenjuge/devbar.git
cd devbar
swift build
.build/debug/Devbar

A few flags print data as JSON and quit, which helps when something looks off:

.build/debug/Devbar --dump-usage      # AI quota from each provider
.build/debug/Devbar --dump-ports      # detected dev servers
.build/debug/Devbar --dump-worktrees  # git worktrees in your home folder
.build/debug/Devbar --dump-camera     # camera permissions (needs Full Disk Access)