Hoot for Mac

Hoot for Mac

Widgets, tools, screenshots, wake screen all in your menubar

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Hoot is a lightweight minibar for macOS featuring Widgets, handy Tools, and a Recent Screenshots tray with drag & drop.
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Sobhan Eskandari
Hey everyone! 👋 Super excited to finally share Hoot with you today. So here’s the backstory: we spend way too much time on our Macs, and we kept getting annoyed by how many clicks it took to do simple stuff—checking the weather, finding a screenshot, stopping the Mac from going to sleep, or just grabbing a quick tool. None of it felt close at hand. That’s when we thought… what if all of this just lived in the menu bar? And boom—Hoot was born. What’s inside 🦉: 👉 Widgets for things you always want to glance at (weather, battery, calendar, network, crypto). 👉 12 handy tools—screenshot taking, audio/vide compression, color picker, QR code generator and more. 👉 Recent Screenshots—because digging through Finder for that one shot is the worst. 👉 Sleep / Awake toggle—your Mac won’t nod off when you don’t want it to. 👉 And the best part: everything’s just one click away in your menu bar. We like to think of Hoot as your little Swiss Army knife for Mac—tiny, fast, and always right there when you need it. What’s next? ✨ More widgets, more tools, and more ways to make it feel yours. We’ve got a ton of ideas, but we’d really love to hear what you think—what’s one thing you wish you had sitting in your menu bar right now? Thanks for checking out Hoot, we had a lot of fun making it and we hope it sneaks into your daily workflow. 🚀
Rajpurohit Vijesh

@sobhan_eskandari UI is so good. Nice Work :)

Sobhan Eskandari

@rajpurohit_vijesh So glad you liked it man thanks for the comment

Tuba Ismail

This looks so handy! Love how Hoot brings all those little everyday tools and widgets right into the menu bar. Makes so much sense and saves so many clicks. Excited to see what new widgets and tools you add next! 🚀

Sobhan Eskandari

@tuba_ismail1  Thanks for the comment Tuba, currently i'm thinking of adding more widgets also a way to faster switch between widgets

Sobhan Eskandari

@tuba_ismail1 Thanks for the comment Tuba, currently i'm thinking of adding more widgets also a way to faster switch between widgets

Alex Chu (Influencer Marketing AI Agent)

The menu bar approach makes sense for frequently used tools. I probably check weather and battery status way too often throughout the day.

How does the recent screenshots feature handle storage management? Most people accumulate hundreds of screenshots and never clean them up. Does it show everything or have some kind of intelligent filtering?

Also curious about the sleep/wake toggle - can it handle different power management scenarios, like staying awake only when on power vs battery, or does it just override system settings completely?

Sobhan Eskandari

@alex_chu821 Hi Alex thanks for the comment. The recent screenshot system is pretty simple right now as it shows the latest screenshots in desktop. the screen awake mode also for now has a timer system it's not power source dependent.

Alex Chu (Influencer Marketing AI Agent)

@sobhan_eskandari Thanks for the clarification. The timer-based approach for sleep mode makes sense for v1. Power source dependency could be a useful feature for future iterations - most people want different behavior when plugged in vs on battery.

Sobhan Eskandari

@alex_chu821 I see that sounds useful

Nitesh Padghan

This hits home, I'm always hunting through Finder for screenshots or digging into settings for quick tools. Having it all one click away in the menu bar feels like a major workflow win.

Sohan Patil

How's the memory footprint? Menubar apps can get heavy with constant widgets running.