AnyBar is a small indicator for your menubar that does one simple thing: it displays a colored dot. What the dot means and when to change it is up to you.

Version 0.1.3:

Or using Homebrew-cask:

brew cask install anybar

AnyBar is controlled via a UDP port (1738 by default). Before any commands can be sent, AnyBar.app must be launched:

open /Users/yourusername/Applications/AnyBar.app

Once launched, you may send it a message to change the style of the dot:

echo -n "black" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738

The following default commands change the style of the dot:

white
red
orange
yellow
green
cyan
blue
purple
black
question
exclamation

And one special command forces AnyBar to quit: quit

Bash alias:

$ function anybar { echo -n $1 | nc -4u -w0 localhost ${2:-1738}; }

$ anybar red
$ anybar green 1739

Go:

• justincampbell/anybar
• johntdyer/anybar-go

Node:

• rumpl/nanybar
• sindresorhus/anybar
• snippet by skibz

PHP:

• 2bj/Phanybar

Java:

• cs475x/AnyBar4j

Python:

• philipbl/pyanybar

Ruby:

• davydovanton/AnyBar_rb

Rust:

• urschrei/rust_anybar

Nim:

• rgv151/anybar.nim

Erlang:

• kureikain/ebar

C++:

• enedil/anybar-cpp

Crystal:

• davydovanton/AnyBar_cr

Emacs:

• rmuslimov/anybar.el

AppleScript:

tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to "blue"

tell application "AnyBar" to set current to get image name as Unicode text
display notification current

Alfred:

• https://github.com/raguay/MyAlfred

• Webpack build status plugin roman01la/anybar-webpack
• boot-clj task tonsky/boot-anybar
• Anybar-based CLI journal Andrew565/anybar-icon-journal
• Command monitoring rvirani1/with_anybar

You can run several instances of AnyBar as long as they listen on different ports. Use the ANYBAR_PORT environment variable to change the port and open -n to run several instances:

ANYBAR_PORT=1738 open -n ./AnyBar.app
ANYBAR_PORT=1739 open -n ./AnyBar.app
ANYBAR_PORT=1740 open -n ./AnyBar.app

AnyBar can detect and use local custom images stored in the ~/.AnyBar directory. For example, if you have a ~/.AnyBar/[email protected] image, send square to port 1738 and it will be displayed. Images should be 19×19 pixels for standard resolution, and 38x38 pixels for retina (@2x).

• Ubuntu Unity limpbrains/somebar
• i3wm with i3pystatus enkore/i3pystatus

• AppleScript support (PR #8, thx Oleg Kertanov)

• Dark mode support. In dark mode AnyBar will first check for <image>[email protected] or <image>_alt.png image first, then falls back to <image>.png
• Support for Mavericks actually works

• Support for Mavericks (PR #2, thx Oleg Kertanov)
• Support for custom images via ~/.AnyBar (PR #1, thx Paul Boschmann)

Copyright © 2015 Nikita Prokopov

Licensed under Eclipse Public License (see LICENSE).