Menu-bar Git · macOS

Your repo, one click from the menu bar.

Glint is an ultralightweight Git client that hangs from your menu bar. Click the icon, the glass drops down - stage, commit, sync - then it's gone. Built on Tauri + Rust, not Electron.

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Free for 7 days, then a one-time $2.99. No subscription.

~6 MB: app bundle
~40 MB: memory
0: Chromium

peterdsp / glint

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3 changed files

src/panel.tsx+42
liquid-glass.css+118
architecture.md-7

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Why Glint

Small, glassy, and out of your way.

Tiny

The system webview (WebKit) plus a Rust core - no bundled Chromium riding along. Megabytes, not hundreds of them.

Glassy

Real macOS vibrancy sits behind a transparent webview - genuine liquid glass, not a flat translucent fill. Themes tint the glass.

Menu-bar native

A tray-positioned panel that toggles on click and dismisses on blur. Glanceable - identity, sync state, changes, and commit in one dropdown.

Yours

Every theme is a handful of CSS tokens - an accent, a tint, an ink pair. Drop one in and it appears as a swatch. No redesign required.

Live · right now

The git universe never sleeps.

Every second, millions of developers stage, commit, push, and merge. Here is roughly how much Git is happening around the world today - counting up live while you read.

commits pushed

~410/ sec · today, worldwide

pushes to remotes

~185/ sec · today, worldwide

pull requests merged

~26/ sec · today, worldwide

branches created

~34/ sec · today, worldwide

repositories created

~5/ sec · today, worldwide

lines of code changed

~74k/ sec · today, worldwide

Scale figures are rough, illustrative estimates - a live meter of Git's global reach, reset at your local midnight. The feed below is real: public events straight from the GitHub API.

Speed test

Can your home handle it all at once?

Measure your real connection - download, upload, ping, and jitter - then see which modern-home scenarios it can run, on their own and combined. Runs right in your browser over Cloudflare's global network. No app, no account.

Mbps download

Mbps upload

ms ping

ms jitter

Runs in your browser - uses roughly 100-200 MB of data.

Scenario ratings are guidance, not guarantees - real-world quality also depends on your Wi-Fi, the server you reach, and how many devices share the line. Nothing is uploaded anywhere except throwaway test data to Cloudflare.

Themeable by token

Same glass. Swapped tokens.

Light or dark, the material never changes - only the tint and accent do. Midnight is the proof: the tint flips to a dark translucent and the ink inverts, but the radii, blur, and shadow are untouched.

Pick a theme - the panel and this whole site retint live.

peterdsp / glint

main

2to pull

5to push

3 changed files

src/panel.tsx+42
liquid-glass.css+118
architecture.md-7

Commit to main

Under the glass

A Rust core and the system webview.

The frontend is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - no framework - rendered by the OS webview. The core is Rust: it owns the tray, the transparent window, native vibrancy, and Git.

Tray & window - a borderless, always-on-top panel positioned under the menu-bar icon.
Vibrancy - NSVisualEffectView behind the transparent webview for real glass.
Git - native push, pull, and PR status in-process via git2, using your SSH keys or a token.

glint/

src/              # frontend - system webview
├─ index.html      the glass panel
├─ styles.css      glass + theme vars
├─ themes.js       theme token sets
└─ app.js          render + IPC to Rust
src-tauri/        # Rust core
├─ src/main.rs     tray, window, vibrancy
├─ src/git.rs      git status
└─ tauri.conf.json transparent window

Pricing

Try it free. Buy it once.

Every feature works free for 7 days - no account, no card. After the trial, a one-time license keeps Glint yours. No subscription, ever.

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Ko-fi

$2.99 one-time

Every feature, forever
Automatic background updates
License key emailed instantly
macOS - Apple silicon & Intel

Get a license - $2.99

On the App Store

Mac App Store

$4.99 one-time

Every feature, forever
Updates via the App Store
Purchase handled by Apple
Sandboxed for the store

Get it on the App Store

It is the same app either way. The Ko-fi build updates itself silently in the background; the App Store build is updated through the App Store. Buy once - there is no subscription and nothing recurring.

Get Glint

Free for 7 days. Yours for a coffee.

Try every feature free for a week. To keep Glint, grab a one-time license - no subscription, ever.

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7-day free trial, no account. Requires macOS 12+. Apple silicon & Intel.