Hey everyone! 👋 Super excited to finally share Hoot with you today.
So here’s the backstory: we spend way too much time on our Macs, and we kept getting annoyed by how many clicks it took to do simple stuff—checking the weather, finding a screenshot, stopping the Mac from going to sleep, or just grabbing a quick tool. None of it felt close at hand. That’s when we thought… what if all of this just lived in the menu bar? And boom—Hoot was born.
What’s inside 🦉:
👉 Widgets for things you always want to glance at (weather, battery, calendar, network, crypto).
👉 12 handy tools—screenshot taking, audio/vide compression, color picker, QR code generator and more.
👉 Recent Screenshots—because digging through Finder for that one shot is the worst.
👉 Sleep / Awake toggle—your Mac won’t nod off when you don’t want it to.
👉 And the best part: everything’s just one click away in your menu bar.
We like to think of Hoot as your little Swiss Army knife for Mac—tiny, fast, and always right there when you need it.
What’s next? ✨ More widgets, more tools, and more ways to make it feel yours. We’ve got a ton of ideas, but we’d really love to hear what you think—what’s one thing you wish you had sitting in your menu bar right now?
Thanks for checking out Hoot, we had a lot of fun making it and we hope it sneaks into your daily workflow. 🚀
About Hoot for Mac on Product Hunt
“Widgets, tools, screenshots, wake screen all in your menubar”
Hoot for Mac launched on Product Hunt on September 19th, 2025 and earned 139 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Hoot is a lightweight minibar for macOS featuring Widgets, handy Tools, and a Recent Screenshots tray with drag & drop.
On the analytics side, Hoot for Mac competes within Mac, Developer Tools and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 626.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hoot for Mac performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hoot for Mac?
Hoot for Mac was hunted by Sobhan Eskandari. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hoot for Mac including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Sobhan Eskandari