Glanceway Glanceway

Everything at a glance

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that keeps you updated with what matters — developer news, social feeds, alerts, and more.

No distractions, no overload.

See it in action

Everything you care about, one glance away from your menu bar.

Glanceway app screenshot

Your menu bar, infinite possibilities

More than an information aggregator — a programmable awareness layer for your Mac.

Sources for Everything

News, finance, developer tools, and more — pre-built sources ready to install from the Source Store.

Browse Sources
Hacker News Reddit GitHub Product Hunt Stock Quotes Crypto StackOverflow RSS Feeds Earthquake Alerts Spaceflight npm Packages TV Schedules

RSS Support

Native RSS/Atom support. Paste any feed URL or use RSSHub to access thousands of feeds.

Explore RSSHub
https://hnrss.org/frontpage
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss
https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/technology-lab

Create Sources with AI

Add the Glanceway skill to your AI coding assistant, describe what data you want, and get a ready-to-import source.

Get the Skill
“Create a source that shows Hacker News top stories”
“I want to see Bitcoin price updates in my menu bar”
“Build a source for my company's status page API”
  1. 1 Download the Glanceway Skill
  2. 2 Add it to Claude Code / Cursor / Windsurf
  3. 3 Describe what you want — import the generated .gwsrc file

AI Reading & Summarization

Install the Glanceway MCP server to let your AI assistant browse sources, read items, and generate summaries.

Claude Desktop glanceway.mcpb
Claude Code
claude mcp add glanceway -- npx -y glanceway-mcp
Summarize unread Hacker News items in Glanceway.
AI

Used Glanceway integration, used a tool

Here's a summary of your unread Hacker News feed, grouped by theme:

Top Stories (by points)
The biggest discussion today is a Mastodon post asking whether to walk or drive 50 meters to a car wash — a humorous AI overthinking scenario that racked up 968 points and 621 comments...

Ready to stay in the loop?

Download Glanceway and turn your menu bar into a personal information hub.