PopChat 0.1.0

The first public release of PopChat — a lightweight macOS menu bar app. Point it at whichever model you want — your ChatGPT subscription, an API key, or a local model.

Highlights

• Instant, non-activating panel — showing it never steals focus; dismissing returns focus immediately. ⌘P pins it open.
• Any OpenAI-compatible provider — OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, or any custom endpoint, with model discovery via /models. Switch provider and model from the header pill; models with reasoning controls get a per-model Effort setting.
• Web search & fetch — the model can call web_search / fetch_url in a capped loop, shown as activity rows. DuckDuckGo (default, no key), Tavily, Brave, or OpenRouter's native web plugin. Globe toggle in the input bar.
• Attachments — drag & drop, ⌘V paste (files and raw screenshots), or the picker. Images become vision blocks; PDF / docx / rtf / xlsx / csv are extracted to text; anything unsupported gives an explicit error instead of degrading silently.
• Slash commands, find in chat (⌘F), a large draft editor (⌘E), markdown with cross-block selection, syntax highlighting, LaTeX, and one-click-copy <pasteable> cards.
• Liquid-glass look on macOS 26 with an adjustable tint, a solid fallback below; Light / Dark / Auto, accent presets plus a custom picker, and full Reduce Motion / Reduce Transparency support.

Install

Download PopChat-0.1.0.dmg below, open it, and drag PopChat to Applications. The disk image is signed and notarized, so it opens without a Gatekeeper detour. Settings → General has a launch-at-login toggle.

The hotkey (default ⌥Space) is rebindable in Settings. There's no Dock icon — PopChat lives in the menu bar.