Press kit
Writing about Stackbar
Everything here is free to use in articles, videos and reviews. Please call it "Stackbar", one word with a capital S.
In one sentence
Stackbar is a free, open-source Mac launcher, menu bar and widget host that people extend with plugins written in one Swift file.
In a paragraph
Stackbar is a free, open-source Mac launcher, menu bar and widget host that people extend with plugins written in one Swift file. It replaces Spotlight with a keyboard-first command palette for apps, files, windows, clipboard history, snippets and calculations, and every plugin can also live in the menu bar, a panel, a window or a desktop widget. Each plugin runs in its own sandboxed process and asks for each permission on an install sheet. Stackbar is native SwiftUI for Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 26, signed and notarized, and released under the MIT license by navbytes.
Facts
- Price
- Free, MIT license
- Platform
- macOS 26 or later, Apple Silicon
- Current version
- 0.35.1
- Install
- brew install --cask navbytes/tap/stackbar
- Plugins
- Written in Swift, sandboxed, from a signed store
- Source
- github.com/navbytes/stackbar
Icon and pictures
Each plugin's page in the plugin directory has screenshots in light and dark, rendered from the plugin itself. Please keep the icon's shape and colours as they are.
Getting in touch
For a review build, an interview or a question, open an issue on GitHub or email the address on the navbytes profile.