This is a maintained fork of matryer/xbar with native Apple Silicon support.
The original project is unmaintained. Its releases are x86-only binaries that require Rosetta 2 — and Apple is removing Rosetta 2 support in a future macOS release. This fork builds a universal binary (arm64 + amd64) that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, with no Rosetta 2 required.
xbar (the BitBar reboot) lets you put the output from any script/program in your macOS menu bar.
⬇ Download latest release (Universal – Apple Silicon + Intel)
Unzip and drag xbar.app to /Applications.
Note on Gatekeeper: This build is unsigned. On first launch, right-click → Open to bypass Gatekeeper, or run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/xbar.app
Original (matryer/xbar) |
This fork (xgitqa/xbar) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Apple Silicon (arm64) | Rosetta 2 only | Native ✓ |
| Intel (amd64) | Native ✓ | Native ✓ |
| Universal binary | No | Yes ✓ |
| Maintained | No (last release 2021) | Yes ✓ |
| Rosetta 2 required | Yes (removed by Apple) | No ✓ |
- Runs natively on Apple Silicon – no Rosetta 2, no translation layer
- Universal binary – same download works on M1/M2/M3 and Intel Macs
- Put the output from any script/program in your macOS menu bar
- Complete rewrite from the ground up in Go using Wails
- Browse the plugin repository
- Download the latest release
- Unzip and drag xbar.app to
/Applications - Launch xbar — plugins live in
~/Library/Application Support/xbar/plugins/
From an xbar menu, choose Preferences > Plugins... to discover and manage plugins, or browse all plugins online.
Plugins live in ~/Library/Application Support/xbar/plugins.
- If you're transitioning from BitBar, move your plugins into this folder
For plugins, head over to https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins.
For issues with this fork (build, Apple Silicon compatibility, etc.), open an issue in this repo.
- Original xbar by @matryer and @leaanthony
- Thanks to Chris Ryer for the app logo
- Thanks to all plugin contributors