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Fixed

  • Safari shows up in Applications search. Safari and a few other Apple apps live in a part of the system the app scan didn't look in; /Applications only holds a link to them. Any browser macOS knows about is now listed too.
  • Applications finds every app Spotlight knows, not just the ones in a few folders: Finder, Screen Sharing and the other system apps, Xcode's Simulator and Instruments, apps nested in subfolders and apps on other drives. Helpers inside other apps, updaters and backups stay out.
  • The palette finds apps, files and sums on a new Mac's first search. Applications, Calculator and File Search come with Stackbar and are now approved as they are installed, instead of waiting for an approval in Settings that most people never found. Their page in Settings still lists what they can do.
  • File Search finds iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive files. They live in your Library folder, which File Search skipped. Their folders read as "iCloud Drive/…" and "Dropbox/…".
  • Window snaps no longer run out. A plugin could move windows only 10 times a minute, so a busy morning of ⌃⌥← and ⌃⌥→ stopped working. It is now 120 a minute, and a snap reads only the windows of the app it moves.

Added

  • Allow a plugin right from the palette. Running a command of a plugin that waits for your approval now shows what it asks for in the palette: press Return to allow it and the command carries on, or Esc to go back. A hotkey or link for such a command opens the palette to ask. Before, the command failed and you had to find the plugin in Settings.
  • Hotkeys can use the arrows, Return, Tab, Escape, Delete and punctuation keys, so a Rectangle-style keymap such as ⌃⌥← for the left half works. ⌘Tab stays the app switcher's. For plugin authors: manifest hotkeys accept these keys from 0.32.0.
  • Plugins can show a clock that keeps time on its own. A plugin's menu bar can now show the time of day the way the macOS clock does, ticking on the minute (or the second) without waiting for the plugin, and keeping one width so the bar doesn't shift. World Clock uses it. For plugin authors: Clock("EEE d MMM HH:mm", timeZone:), protocol 23.
  • Sliders can follow your finger. A plugin can ask for a slider that updates while you drag it rather than when you let go, so World Clock's time-travel slider moves every clock as you scrub. For plugin authors: Slider(..., live: true).
  • New docs: a Permissions page listing what macOS asks for and why, a Hyper key section (Karabiner-Elements works with every Stackbar hotkey), and "Coming from Spotlight" in Getting started.

Changed

  • Agent tools are off on a new Mac until you turn them on in Settings › Agents. A Mac that already ran Stackbar keeps its setting.

Install

Signed with Developer ID and notarized. Install with Homebrew or the one-line installer (both also put stackbarctl on your PATH):

brew install --cask navbytes/tap/stackbar
curl -fsSL https://stackbar.app/install.sh | bash

Or unzip, drag Stackbar.app into /Applications and open it.

Requires macOS 26. Store plugins come prebuilt, so Xcode is not needed to use them. To write your own plugins, install Xcode 26 or the Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).

The command-line tool is inside the app: ln -sf /Applications/Stackbar.app/Contents/MacOS/stackbarctl ~/.local/bin/stackbarctl, then stackbarctl doctor.

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