Studiofront

A native macOS menu bar app for agency developers and editors who manage many Sanity Studios across multiple client organizations. It's a fast switcher, not a management console: open it, find the right client Studio, jump there.

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Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple Silicon. See all releases on the Releases page.

Who it's for

Anyone juggling Studios across several Sanity organizations — agencies, consultancies, and freelancers with multiple clients. Instead of bookmarking a dozen Studio URLs or hunting through the Sanity dashboard, Studiofront keeps every project one keystroke away.

Core Features

Fast, keyboard-first switching

• Menu-bar popover that opens instantly from cache, no network wait
• Live search across project name, nickname, org, project ID, dataset, and last-edited document
• Group by org or by last-edited, with favorites always pinned first
• Full keyboard navigation (↑↓ navigate, ↵ open Studio, ⌥↵ open linked site, ⌘1–⌘9 jump to favorites)

Presence — see who else is there

• Live avatar stack showing teammates actively viewing or editing a project
• Jump straight to the document a teammate currently has open
• Listen-only: Studiofront never announces your own presence

Per-user curation

• Favorite or hide projects, drag to reorder
• Custom nicknames and extra links (staging, localhost, self-hosted) Sanity itself doesn't know about
• Hidden projects dim instead of disappearing if they briefly drop out of a refresh

Activity at a glance

• Last-edited document per project, with type, draft status, and relative time
• Last-deploy timestamp

Two full themes

• Liquid Glass (native macOS 26 translucent materials) and Sanity UI (mirrors Sanity Studio's own design)
• Light/dark aware, full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support

Zero-setup auth

• Detects your existing Sanity CLI login automatically, or accepts a personal access token
• Tokens live in the Keychain only

Auto-updates ship via Sparkle, so you always get the latest release without re-downloading.

Architecture

Studiofront is one app target plus four local Swift packages:

Studiofront/     app target — shell, popover, settings window
Packages/
  SanityKit/     Management API client, models, token storage
  PresenceKit/   PresenceProvider protocol + implementations
  ThemeKit/      theme protocol, token sets, styled primitives
  StudioStore/   persistence, curation state, merge logic

See studiofront-spec.md for the full build spec.

Building from source

1. Install XcodeGen
2. Copy app/Config/Signing.local.xcconfig.example to app/Config/Signing.local.xcconfig and fill in your Apple DEVELOPMENT_TEAM ID (find it at developer.apple.com/account → Membership details). This file is gitignored.
3. From app/, run xcodegen generate
4. Open app/Studiofront.xcodeproj in Xcode, select the Studiofront scheme, and run.

On first launch, Studiofront looks for a Sanity CLI auth token at ~/.config/sanity/config.json. If the sandbox can't read it, Settings offers a fallback to grant access or paste a token directly.

Releasing

See RELEASING.md.

License

MIT