SquawkBar
Free
Everything you need to see if it earns a spot on your desktop.
- One service connection, with as many projects as you like
- Local Dev on Mac
- Small, Medium and Large widgets on your Mac desktop
The widgets
Real widgets. Not a menu bar list.
Small for a glance. Large for the whole picture. Overview to see several services at once. They sit on your desktop and they update on their own.
Small
One service, one look.
The deploy state and the last thing that happened, readable from across the room.
Medium
The detail behind the color.
Your last five deploys as a strip, what failed and how long the build took, written right on the widget.
Large
The whole story of a deploy.
The build outcome, your last five deploys and a build-time trend, all on your desktop without opening a browser.
Overview
Many services. One widget.
Put several services in one list and spot the one that is failing at a glance.
Real SquawkBar widget views, rendered with sample data.
The stack
Twelve dashboards. One glance.
Connect a service once, then choose which projects to watch. Tap a widget to jump straight to that service’s dashboard.
Vercel
Deploy status per project
Netlify
Latest deploy per site
Railway
Deploy and service health
Render
Latest deploy per service
Supabase
Project state and service health
Firebase
Hosting and App Hosting deploys
Cloudflare
Pages production deploys
Sentry
New and unresolved issues
PostHog
Event ingestion in the last 24 hours
Linear
Open, in-progress and triage issues
GitHub
Open issues and PRs across your repos
Slack and Discord
Public service status
Plus your own health checks for any URL, with your own title and check frequency.
Set up
On your screen in a minute.
Connect a service, then add a widget the way you add any other.
Connect a service
Open SquawkBar and connect a service. Your token stays in your Keychain.
Open the widget picker
Right-click the desktop and choose Edit Widgets.
Pick a size
Choose SquawkBar, then click Small, Medium, Large or Overview to add it, or drag it onto your desktop.
Choose what to watch
The widget asks which project it should show. To change it later, right-click it and choose Edit Widget.
Sample data: a check that is down, and one that is healthy.
Health checks
If it has a URL, you’ll know when it goes down.
Your API, your landing page, a client’s site. Give SquawkBar a URL, a name and how often to check. It shows up as a widget, and Pro pings you the moment it fails.
- Any URLYour own title and your own check frequency (Pro)
- AlertsA push notification when a public URL goes down (Pro)
- LocalA Local Dev widget shows when something is listening on your usual dev ports
The squawk
Nothing to see, until there is.
VercelHealthy
NetlifyHealthy
RailwayHealthy
RenderHealthy
SupabaseHealthy
FirebaseHealthy
CloudflareHealthy
SentryHealthy
PostHogHealthy
LinearHealthy
GitHubHealthy
Slack and DiscordHealthy
Push alerts are part of SquawkBar Pro.
Private by design
No account. Nothing to sign up for.
No account
There is no SquawkBar login. Each service connects on its own, with its own access token.
Tokens stay in your Keychain
Your access tokens live in the Keychain on your device. Push alerts, if you turn them on, need the tokens for the services you chose. Those are encrypted at rest and used only to read status.
Syncs through iCloud
Your widget setup syncs between your Macs through your own iCloud account.
Free and Pro
Start free. Add Pro if you want more.
Download SquawkBar and use it as long as you like. If your stack outgrows the free version, Pro is an optional upgrade inside the app.
SquawkBar Pro
An in-app upgrade for your whole stack.
Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited service connections
- Custom health checks for any URL
- Push alerts when a deploy fails or something goes down
Upgrade from inside the app whenever you like.
Pro is an auto-renewing in-app subscription. Plans and prices are shown in the app in your local currency, and you can manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no SquawkBar account. You connect each service on its own with its own access token.
Where do my tokens go?
Your tokens are stored in the Keychain on your device. If you turn on push alerts (Pro), the app also sends our server the tokens for the services you chose to watch so it can check them while your devices sleep. They are encrypted at rest and used only to read status.
Do alerts work when my Mac is asleep?
Yes, with Pro. Push alerts come from a background checker, so a failed deploy or a down health check reaches you even when your Mac is asleep and the app is closed.
Which services are supported?
Vercel, Netlify, Railway, Render, Supabase, Firebase, Cloudflare, Sentry, PostHog, Linear and GitHub, plus public status for Slack and Discord. You can also watch any URL with a custom health check.
What does the Local Dev widget show?
Whether something is listening on your common dev ports on your Mac: 3000, 4000, 5000, 5173, 8000, 8080, 8888 and 9000. It does not list processes or Docker containers.
Is there an iPhone or iPad app?
Not yet. SquawkBar is a Mac app today, and an iPhone and iPad companion is coming soon.
What does the free plan include?
One service connection with as many projects as you like, and Local Dev on Mac. Pro adds unlimited connections, custom health checks and push alerts.