v0.1.0

What's new in 0.1.0

Added

• Crab Walking animation style: a pixel-art Clawd crab that scuttles in the menu bar while Claude works. Pick it under Animation. (It's always orange; the Claude and Claude Code styles still follow the Orange/System color setting.)
• Optional completion sound: a soft chime when a turn longer than a minute finishes. Off by default, toggle it under Options.
• Version and update check in the menu: shows your current version, plus a one-click "Update available" that opens the latest release page when there's a newer one. The check is a once-a-day read of GitHub's public release tag; no data is collected and nothing is sent to the developer.
• Menu section headers (Options / Animation / Color).

Download the DMG, drag into Applications (replacing the old one), and launch once.

v0.0.5

What's changed

Fixed

• The app no longer quits while a Claude session that was already running before you installed it is actively working. Such a session never fired its one-time SessionStart hook, so it wasn't being tracked, even though its other hooks fire normally. The status hooks now register the session on any activity, so any actively-working session keeps the icon alive.

Thanks to the detailed bug report that pinned this down.

Download, drag into Applications (replacing the old one), and launch once.

v0.0.4

What's changed

Fixed

• The app now actually runs on macOS 12 (Monterey) and later, as stated. Earlier builds were compiled without a pinned deployment target, so the binary inherited the build machine's OS (macOS 26) and refused to launch on anything older. The build now targets macOS 12.0 explicitly.

If you were getting a macOS version error on launch, this release fixes it. Download, drag into Applications (replacing the old one), and launch once.

This is an Apple Silicon build (macOS 12+).

v0.0.3

What's changed

Changed

• Reworked how the icon appears on desktop-app launch. The app is now started by the existing session hook (which fires when the Claude desktop app opens, when claude runs in a terminal, or when a conversation is opened) and quits itself when Claude is closed and no session is active. This keeps the instant-on behavior from 0.0.2 with no background helper.

Removed

• The background watcher (a launchd LaunchAgent running a shell script) introduced in 0.0.2. It showed up as a "bash" item under Login Items and Extensions, which was confusing. There is no longer any login item or background item. Upgrading removes the old LaunchAgent automatically.

Fixed

• The menu bar icon now reliably disappears when you quit the Claude desktop app.
• Upgrades self-heal: the app re-runs its installer on a version change, so updating refreshes the hooks and removes the old watcher with no manual step.

Updating

Download the DMG, drag the app into /Applications (replacing the old one), and launch it once. Then restart Claude Code so it picks up the refreshed hooks. No manual uninstall needed.

v0.0.2

What's changed

Added

• The menu bar icon now appears the moment the Claude desktop app opens, before you start a conversation, and disappears shortly after you quit it. Previously it only showed once a session began. (Standalone / DMG install path.)

Changed

• Ending a Claude Code session no longer hides the icon while the Claude desktop app is still open.

Fixed

• Uninstall now removes all of the app's own hooks, including the SessionStart / SessionEnd lifecycle hooks a previous version left behind. It only ever touches this app's hooks, never any others.

After updating, drag the new app to /Applications and run install.js once (see README), then restart Claude Code.

v0.0.1

First release. Drag Claude Status Bar into Applications and launch it once; it wires up the Claude Code hooks for you automatically. Signed and notarized, opens with no Gatekeeper warning.