A macOS menu bar replacement built in Rust. Features notch-aware split layouts, modular widgets, and hot-reload configuration.

• Notch-aware layout - Automatically splits around MacBook notch, or use fake notch on external displays
• Four-zone module placement - Left outer, left inner, right inner, right outer
• Hot-reload configuration - Edit config and see changes instantly
• Built-in modules - Clock, date, battery, volume, CPU, memory, weather, app name, and more
• Popups and panels - Calendar popups, script-driven content panels
• User-local plugins - Discover poll and push plugins from ~/dev
• Toggle groups - Radio-button style module groups with active state styling
• Autohide support - Slides down when macOS menu bar appears

• macOS 12.0 (Monterey) or later
• Rust 1.75+

brew install dungle-scrubs/sinew/sinew

brew services start sinew

git clone https://github.com/dungle-scrubs/sinew.git
cd sinew
cargo build --release
cp target/release/sinew /usr/local/bin/

# Run with default config (~/.config/sinew/config.toml)
sinew

# Run with debug logging
RUST_LOG=debug sinew

# Force redraw
cargo run --bin sinew-msg -- redraw

# Reload configuration
cargo run --bin sinew-msg -- reload

# Get status
cargo run --bin sinew-msg -- status

# Update an IPC-driven or push-plugin module
cargo run --bin sinew-msg -- set my-widget label="42" color="#a6e3a1"

# List configured module IDs
cargo run --bin sinew-msg -- list

Create ~/.config/sinew/config.toml:

[bar]
background_color = "#1D2123"
text_color = "#e2e2e2"
font_size = 13.0
font_family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font"
padding = 4.0
border_color = "#5f656a"
border_width = 1.0
border_radius = 6.0
autohide = true  # Slide down when macOS menu bar appears

[plugins]
paths = ["~/dev"]

# Left side modules
[[modules.left.left]]
type = "app_name"
max_length = 30
background = "#2C3135"
padding = 8.0
corner_radius = 6.0

# Right side modules (left to right order)
[[modules.right.right]]
type = "plugin"
plugin = "hello-poll"
id = "hello-plugin"
settings.message = "hello from plugin"

[[modules.right.right]]
type = "weather"
location = "auto"
update_interval = 600
color = "#50cae5"

[[modules.right.right]]
type = "battery"
color = "#8ec475"
warning_color = "#dcc37c"
warning_threshold = 30
critical_color = "#e8626f"
critical_threshold = 15

[[modules.right.right]]
type = "clock"
format = "%H:%M"
background = "#2C3135"
padding = 8.0
corner_radius = 6.0

See config.example.toml for all options.

Plugins are discovered from ~/dev by default. Each plugin package must contain a plugin.toml manifest and an executable entrypoint.

~/dev/
  hello-poll/
    plugin.toml
    run.sh

See examples/plugins/ for poll and push examples.

For a more realistic user-local plugin, see the AI Costs module docs under docs/src/content/docs/modules/ai-costs.md and the plugin project at ~/dev/sinew-broke.

• macOS only - Uses AppKit/Core Graphics directly
• Weather uses wttr.in - No API key required, but rate limits apply
• No multi-monitor support yet - Shows on primary display only

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

MIT