BarKeep

Menu Bar & AI Companion

Menu bar, notch island, and AI on your phone

BarKeep gives you back control of the top of your Mac screen, then keeps going. Hide the menu-bar icons you rarely need, drag the rest into the order you want, and reveal them by click, hover, scroll, hot corner, or hotkey - with a layout that sticks across relaunches. It turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island: a live hub for what is playing, upcoming meetings, timers, downloads, weather, notifications, files, clipboard, notes, and even a built-in terminal. And it puts your AI coding sessions in your pocket: start and steer Claude Code or Cursor from an iPhone or Android companion app, watch the output stream live, answer permission prompts from the phone, and pick up any past session straight from your Mac. On the Mac itself, every Claude Code session shares a coordination pool, so you can see which sessions are running, what each one is working on, message them, hand them tasks, and spawn or wake them.

Free to download. macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Apple Silicon and Intel supported.

What BarKeep does

  • Hide, show, and drag-to-arrange menu-bar items across Shown, Hidden, and Always Hidden sections, with a layout that persists across relaunches
  • Reveal hidden items by click, hover, two-finger scroll, hot corner, global hotkey, or a drop-down reveal bar
  • Overflow rescue: when macOS drops icons because the bar ran out of room, BarKeep moves them into Hidden so they stay reachable
  • Notch Dynamic Island with tabs for music, calendar, meetings, weather, news, email, notifications, files and shelf, clipboard, notes, battery, live activities, and a built-in terminal
  • Appearance overlay with tint, opacity, gradient, border, corner radius, shadow, and bar, capsule or split shapes, plus presets and rule-based triggers
  • Start and steer Claude Code and Cursor sessions from an iPhone or Android companion app, with output streaming live to the phone
  • Answer tool permission prompts from your phone, so an AI session never sits blocked while you are away from your Mac
  • Browse and resume past sessions read straight from your Mac's own transcripts, with slash-command autocomplete on the phone
  • Coordination pool for every Claude Code session on your Mac: see who is active and what each is doing, message sessions, share a task board, and spawn or wake them
  • Mobile companion that mirrors your settings, notes, and chat, with a live dashboard and remote commands for media, timers, reminders, and clipboard
  • Send files from the Shelf to another Mac over the local network, or to an Android phone with Quick Share, and receive from a Nearby tab
  • Optional account for cloud settings sync, friends with presence and one-to-one chat, and multiplayer games over LAN or online
  • Universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel, Developer ID signed and notarized, with automatic updates

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