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A macOS menu bar app for people who post to several platforms a week. Badge counts, instant access, and compose staging across Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X, LinkedIn and YouTube Studio.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I post to six platforms and I was losing real time to the same loop every day: open a tab, check if anything needs a reply, close it, repeat. Then do it again in reverse when I actually wanted to post something.
SocialBar collapses that into a menu bar icon.
What it does
- Badge counts. Unread counts per platform, totalled on the menu bar icon, so you know whether a platform is worth opening before you open it.
- One click to any platform. Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X, LinkedIn and YouTube Studio, each in its own pane with the right viewport.
- Compose staging. One hotkey opens every platform's upload flow side by side, with a shared caption box and per-platform character counts.
- Real multi-account. Each account gets a genuinely isolated session — two Instagram accounts stay separate, across restarts.
What it doesn't do
It doesn't auto-post. It opens each platform's own upload flow and hands you the caption to paste. No form filling, no scheduling, no posting on your behalf. Automated posting breaks every time a platform changes its UI, and it puts your account at risk. Staging just removes the tab-shuffling.
It also has no server, no API keys, no OAuth app and no account. It uses the sessions you're already logged into, on your Mac. No analytics, no telemetry.
Being straight about one thing: badge coverage varies by platform. Some expose their unread count in a way a local app can read reliably; some don't. When a count can't be read, SocialBar shows a dot instead of a number — it will never show you a fake zero. Coverage improves without app updates, because the detection rules are fetched from a small file I can update any time.
$4.99 one-time, no subscription. Free tier is two platforms with badges included. macOS 14+, signed and notarized.
Happy to answer anything — especially which platforms you'd want next.
— Jonathan
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About SocialBar on Product Hunt
“All your socials. One menu bar.”
SocialBar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. A macOS menu bar app for people who post to several platforms a week. Badge counts, instant access, and compose staging across Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X, LinkedIn and YouTube Studio.
SocialBar was featured in Productivity (658.1k followers), Social Media (89.2k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 178.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted SocialBar?
SocialBar was hunted by Jonathan Brito. 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.
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