Hey everyone! đź‘‹ Super excited to finally share Hoot with you today.
So here’s the backstory: we spend way too much time on our Macs, and we kept getting annoyed by how many clicks it took to do simple stuff—checking the weather, finding a screenshot, stopping the Mac from going to sleep, or just grabbing a quick tool. None of it felt close at hand. That’s when we thought… what if all of this just lived in the menu bar? And boom—Hoot was born.
What’s inside 🦉:
👉 Widgets for things you always want to glance at (weather, battery, calendar, network, crypto).
👉 12 handy tools—screenshot taking, audio/vide compression, color picker, QR code generator and more.
👉 Recent Screenshots—because digging through Finder for that one shot is the worst.
👉 Sleep / Awake toggle—your Mac won’t nod off when you don’t want it to.
👉 And the best part: everything’s just one click away in your menu bar.
We like to think of Hoot as your little Swiss Army knife for Mac—tiny, fast, and always right there when you need it.
What’s next? ✨ More widgets, more tools, and more ways to make it feel yours. We’ve got a ton of ideas, but we’d really love to hear what you think—what’s one thing you wish you had sitting in your menu bar right now?
Thanks for checking out Hoot, we had a lot of fun making it and we hope it sneaks into your daily workflow. 🚀
This looks so handy! Love how Hoot brings all those little everyday tools and widgets right into the menu bar. Makes so much sense and saves so many clicks. Excited to see what new widgets and tools you add next! 🚀
The menu bar approach makes sense for frequently used tools. I probably check weather and battery status way too often throughout the day.
How does the recent screenshots feature handle storage management? Most people accumulate hundreds of screenshots and never clean them up. Does it show everything or have some kind of intelligent filtering?
Also curious about the sleep/wake toggle - can it handle different power management scenarios, like staying awake only when on power vs battery, or does it just override system settings completely?
@alex_chu821Â Hi Alex thanks for the comment. The recent screenshot system is pretty simple right now as it shows the latest screenshots in desktop. the screen awake mode also for now has a timer system it's not power source dependent.
@sobhan_eskandari Thanks for the clarification. The timer-based approach for sleep mode makes sense for v1. Power source dependency could be a useful feature for future iterations - most people want different behavior when plugged in vs on battery.
This hits home, I'm always hunting through Finder for screenshots or digging into settings for quick tools. Having it all one click away in the menu bar feels like a major workflow win.
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How's the memory footprint? Menubar apps can get heavy with constant widgets running.
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@sobhan_eskandari UI is so good. Nice Work :)
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@rajpurohit_vijesh So glad you liked it man thanks for the comment
This looks so handy! Love how Hoot brings all those little everyday tools and widgets right into the menu bar. Makes so much sense and saves so many clicks. Excited to see what new widgets and tools you add next! 🚀
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@tuba_ismail1Â Thanks for the comment Tuba, currently i'm thinking of adding more widgets also a way to faster switch between widgets
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@tuba_ismail1Â Thanks for the comment Tuba, currently i'm thinking of adding more widgets also a way to faster switch between widgets
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The menu bar approach makes sense for frequently used tools. I probably check weather and battery status way too often throughout the day.
How does the recent screenshots feature handle storage management? Most people accumulate hundreds of screenshots and never clean them up. Does it show everything or have some kind of intelligent filtering?
Also curious about the sleep/wake toggle - can it handle different power management scenarios, like staying awake only when on power vs battery, or does it just override system settings completely?
Hoot for Mac
@alex_chu821Â Hi Alex thanks for the comment. The recent screenshot system is pretty simple right now as it shows the latest screenshots in desktop. the screen awake mode also for now has a timer system it's not power source dependent.
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@sobhan_eskandari Thanks for the clarification. The timer-based approach for sleep mode makes sense for v1. Power source dependency could be a useful feature for future iterations - most people want different behavior when plugged in vs on battery.
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@alex_chu821Â I see that sounds useful
This hits home, I'm always hunting through Finder for screenshots or digging into settings for quick tools. Having it all one click away in the menu bar feels like a major workflow win.
How's the memory footprint? Menubar apps can get heavy with constant widgets running.