Use Stackbar

Updates and moving Macs

How Stackbar updates itself, and how to take your setup to another Mac or bring it from Raycast.

App updates

Stackbar 0.23.0 and later update themselves. Choose Check for Updates… from the Stackbar menu, or let it check once a day (Settings › Store › Stackbar). Each update is notarized by Apple and signed with Stackbar’s own key, which the app checks before installing.

If you installed with Homebrew, brew upgrade works too.

Move to another Mac

Settings › General › Move to Another Mac › Export… writes one .stackbarsettings file with:

• the plugins you installed and where they came from,
• each plugin’s settings and saved data,
• favourites, aliases and command hotkeys,
• Stackbar’s own preferences, such as the palette hotkey.

Secrets and approvals are never in the file. On the new Mac, choose Import…; Stackbar installs the plugins, restores the rest and restarts. Enter your tokens again and approve each plugin once.

Coming from Raycast

The same section has Snippets… and Quicklinks…, which read the JSON files Raycast exports. The switching guide walks through the rest.