DeepSeek Status 1.0

First public release. 🐳

A macOS menu bar app that tells you — at a glance — whether DeepSeek is in peak or off-peak pricing.

• Peak hours — a bright blue whale, head up, bubbles behind its tail.
• Off-peak hours — a pale, sleeping whale with little zs above its head.
• Click the whale for a panel with the current period, the price multiplier, a live countdown to the
  next switch, and a weekly schedule heat map.
• Optional HH:MM:SS countdown next to the menu bar icon, launch at login, and a preview mode that
  shows either state at any time.

The rule it implements

Peak hours are Monday–Friday 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00, Beijing time (Asia/Shanghai);
everything else is off-peak at half price. Ranges are half-open — 12:00 and 18:00 sharp are already
off-peak — and the result never depends on your Mac's own time zone. Public holidays are not part of
the rule.

Highlights

• Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 14.0 or later.
• No network access, no analytics, no API key, no account — it only reads your system clock.
• The whale is the official DeepSeek mark, drawn from an embedded vector path: no image assets, sharp
  at any size, ~0% idle CPU.
• The details panel is a self-positioned window, so it can never be pushed half off-screen.

Installation

1. Download DeepSeekStatus-1.0.zip, unzip it, and drag DeepSeekStatus.app into /Applications.

2. The app is signed ad-hoc and is not notarized, so Gatekeeper blocks the first launch.
   Right-click the app → Open → Open, or clear the flag once:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DeepSeekStatus.app

3. The app has no Dock icon — look for the whale in the menu bar.

Or build it yourself: ./Tools/build.sh run (requires Xcode 16+).

Documentation: README ·
Development notes