I built a macOS menu bar app so I'd never ask for the cafe wifi again ☕️

Hey everyone 👋

I'm the maker of CafeCheckIn. I work from cafes a lot, and I kept hitting the same two annoyances:

1. Walking into a new cafe and having to ask for (and retype) the wifi password every single time.

2. Forgetting which cafes were actually good to work from — the quiet one with plenty of outlets vs. the pretty-but-loud one.

So I built a tiny native macOS menu bar app to fix both:

- One-click wifi copy — password stored securely in the Keychain, never synced anywhere

- Auto cafe detection — it knows which cafe you're sitting in

- Today's weather at a glance

- Rate & journal each spot (quiet, outlets, wifi, drinks)

- History view so you always know which cafe is worth going back to

It's built in SwiftUI (Swift 6), lightweight, and lives entirely in your menu bar — no Dock icon, no Electron bloat, and it's privacy-first (your journal stays on your device).

I made this to scratch my own itch, so I'd genuinely love honest feedback from other people who work from cafes:

- What would make this a daily-use app for you?

- Any feature you'd want before you'd actually keep it in your menu bar?

Thanks for checking it out — happy to answer anything about how it was built too! 🙌
download link: https://chellongcoder.github.io/CafeCheckin/