GitStatusBar

What it does

simplicity + privacy + minimalism 1. It lives in the menu bar, not as a separate app window or dashboard. 2. It gives instant visual repo status (clean/dirty branch-level awareness) with low overhead, not a full git client workflow. 3. It stays local-first: no account, no telemetry, no app-level tracking. 4. It avoids heavy background behavior; no constant background polling in normal operations

GitStatusBar is a native macOS menu bar app that scans local git repositories and shows branch, clean, dirty, ahead, and behind status at a glance.

Scan your local git repositories and see branch, clean, dirty, ahead, and behind status from the menu bar. Scan one or more folders and compare clean, dirty, ahead, and behind counts. Open repos in Finder, Terminal, editors, or their hosted remote pages. GitStatusBar checks your repositories when you ask it to. Local refresh updates working-tree status, and remote fetch only happens from the explicit Refresh + fetch action. That keeps idle CPU at zero and avoids hidden git traffic while you are working. Point GitStatusBar at folders such as ~/Documents or ~/Projects . It finds local repositories and keeps the menu grouped around the places you actually work. See clean, modified, untracked,…from gitstatus.tech

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