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Stargazer Bar
Watch your GitHub stars climb, live in your menu bar
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Watch your GitHub stars climb, live in your menu bar
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Ship something, then watch it take off. Stargazer Bar shows your GitHub repo's stars and forks trending live in your Mac menu bar — an actual history from background checks as often as every 10 minutes, not a snapshot. Share a milestone screenshot or X post from the menu. Also tracks release downloads, a maintainer radar (CI/PRs/issues), and any public repo — no GitHub account required.
the live history view is genuinely useful, way more than the snapshot dashboards i usually check. running it on a repo without logging into github was a nice surprise.
@ariflq7p Thank you! It's also possible to track non-own open source repo, if needed. Be aware, for repos with huge star number it may take long time to be added (fixing it in upcoming release).
@ariflq7p
check out my other project for developers - Agent Sessions with a session manager for many agents, Quota Meter with live burn rates for Claude/Codex and Agent Cockpit for Claude/Codex/OpenCode
jazzyalex.github.io/agent-sessions
macOS • open source • ⭐️ 677
love that it works without a github account and still pulls the full star history, not just a current count. the live updating right from the menu bar feels like something apple themselves should have shipped.
@ezelfevzioeqqo thank you for the warm feedback!
check out my other project for developers - Agent Sessions with a session manager for many agents, Quota Meter with live burn rates for Claude/Codex and Agent Cockpit for Claude/Codex/OpenCode
jazzyalex.github.io/agent-sessions
macOS • open source • ⭐️ 677
How does the menu bar handle multiple repos at once, and is there a limit on how many you can pin without it getting cluttered?
@cerenocgd
The menu bar itself stays clean — it always shows just one
number, and you pick which one in Settings:
• Selected repo — stars
• Selected repo — downloads
• Total stars across all tracked repos
• Total downloads across all tracked repos
All tracked repos then live in the dropdown, one row each with its own
submenu (trend chart, latest release stats, 30-day activity, maintainer
radar). So multi-repo tracking doesn't mean multiple numbers crammed
into the menu bar — that stays a single-glance counter.
Right now there's a hard cap of 5 tracked repos. It's a deliberate
choice — the app is meant for watching a handful of projects you actually
care about, not managing dozens. Easy to lift if there's real demand,
but 5 feels like the right ceiling for the "quietly watched" vibe.
Finally something that puts my repo's star count where I can actually see it. The menu bar post feature is a nice touch for hitting those milestone moments.
@kriyeqhl5 thank you for the feedback!
check out my other project for developers - Agent Sessions with a session manager for many agents, Quota Meter with live burn rates for Claude/Codex and Agent Cockpit for Claude/Codex/OpenCode
jazzyalex.github.io/agent-sessions
macOS • open source • ⭐️ 678