Glanceway
A news reader that lives in your menu bar
Glanceway is a macOS menu bar news reader. It pulls headlines from the sources you pick — financial wires, world events, spaceflight launches, earthquake alerts — and shows them as a compact, glance-friendly list. No tabs, no digests, no notification popups you can't dismiss.
News sources, one click away
Every news source is a small installable module. Pick the ones that match what you actually read: Finnhub market headlines, Spaceflight News, Wall Street CN, Jin10 breaking-news wires, CLS Telegraph, Dev.to for developer news. Each source runs on its own refresh schedule, and items are merged into a single sorted list.
When something breaks, it's already in your menu bar. When nothing breaks, nothing distracts you.
Why a menu bar news reader beats a tab
Open a news site and you're negotiating: cookie banner, paywall, autoplay video, three ads, a "for you" algorithm. Open your menu bar and you see a clean list of titles and summaries, sorted by time, from the exact sources you trust. That's the whole pitch.
You stay in the app you're already in. You spend 10 seconds instead of 10 minutes. You skim, not doomscroll.
Pair it with RSS for a complete picture
News sources cover the big stuff. For everything else — a favorite newsletter, a niche blog, a company's release feed — paste an RSS URL into Glanceway and it gets read the same way, alongside your news. The app doesn't care whether a feed is RSS, a custom API source, or a WebSocket stream; it all lands in the same menu bar list.
Related Sources
Finnhub Market News
FinanceFinancial news aggregated from major sources like Yahoo, Reuters, and CNBC via Finnhub
Spaceflight News
NewsLatest space and spaceflight news articles from SNAPI
华尔街见闻
Finance华尔街见闻 7x24 快讯
金十数据
Finance金十数据快讯
财联社电报
Finance财联社电报快讯
Earthquake Alerts
NewsRecent significant earthquakes worldwide from USGS
Frequently asked questions
What news sources does Glanceway support? +
Anything installable from the community source store — financial wires, world news, spaceflight, earthquakes, developer news, and more. You can also paste any RSS or Atom URL directly.
Can I read Chinese-language finance news? +
Yes. Wall Street CN (华尔街见闻), Jin10 (金十), and CLS Telegraph (财联社) are all available as sources, each with realtime breaking-news updates.
How does Glanceway handle many sources at once? +
Each source runs independently on its own refresh schedule. Glanceway merges, de-duplicates, and sorts items into a single list so you never see the same story twice.
Does it send push notifications? +
Glanceway is glance-first — items appear in your menu bar for you to read when you want. Notification behavior can be configured per source in the app.
Read less, learn more
Install Glanceway and replace your news-tab doomscroll with a 10-second menu bar glance.