macOS, iOS, and Linux ship today — Android and the editor extension are buildable from source.
Native Swift app. Runs as a menu-bar utility. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later on an Apple Silicon Mac.
The public macOS DMG is served from GitHub Releases while OpenBurnBar's branded direct-download host is being republished. This link targets the signed, notarized, smoke-tested 1.0.26 GitHub Release asset.
/ApplicationsThat's the install. No installer, no admin password.
OpenBurnBar lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon. Click the flame to open the popover. If Gatekeeper hesitates the first time, right-click → Open.
The app reads logs in ~/.claude/, ~/.codex/,
~/.factory/ and friends. No account, no API keys for local tracking. Quota
providers (Cursor, Copilot, Warp, MiniMax, etc.) prompt you per provider when you choose
to enable them.
git clone https://github.com/Imagine-That-Ai/BurnBar.git
cd BurnBar
make installRequires Xcode 16+, Swift 5.10+, XcodeGen optional.
Available now. Tauri + WebView shell over the native OpenBurnBar daemon. First public release ships aarch64 (ARM64) artifacts only — the AppImage is portable across ARM64 distros, with deb and rpm for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora/RHEL on the same architecture. Every artifact is Ed25519-signed with a keyless Sigstore/cosign attestation.
Signed prerelease — AppImage, deb, and rpm on GitHub Releases. Hosted on the signed GitHub Release linux-v0.1.0. x86_64 builds are next.
AppImage: chmod +x OpenBurnBar_0.1.0_aarch64.AppImage && ./OpenBurnBar_0.1.0_aarch64.AppImage
deb: sudo apt install ./OpenBurnBar_0.1.0_arm64.deb
rpm: sudo dnf install ./OpenBurnBar-0.1.0-1.aarch64.rpm
The app talks to the OpenBurnBar daemon over an AF_UNIX socket. The deb/rpm packages
install a systemd unit; AppImage users can start the daemon via the shipped binary or openburnbar-cli service. Install to a trusted path (e.g. /usr/bin) so the daemon's peer-trust check accepts the client.
Detached Ed25519 signatures ship beside each artifact, plus keyless cosign bundles. Public key: openburnbar-linux-ed25519.pub.pem.
Requires iOS 17 or later on iPhone or iPad. Companion to the Mac app — the phone or tablet renders what the Mac records. Native widgets, Live Activity, Siri shortcut.
Free download; BurnBar Cloud subscriptions are available in-app. The iPhone and iPad app renders what your Mac's daemon records — install the macOS app first.
Activity-bar panel that talks to the same local daemon as the menu bar. No public marketplace listing yet — build from source and load unpacked.
The daemon must be running — it's how the extension reads data.
cd extensions/openburnbar
npm ci
npm run build
In Cursor or VS Code: Extensions → "Install from VSIX…" or
Run Extension from the Run-and-Debug panel pointing at
extensions/openburnbar.
The panel surfaces burn for the active workspace and the routed-provider gateway when you have it on.
The full iPhone & iPad experience, now on Android — your burn, your sessions, the
assistant, and Floo, all built and tested. The one thing left is a Play Store listing;
until then, build it from source under android/.