This is a smol menubar app that helps you quickly access the full webapps of ChatGPT, Claude 2, Perplexity.ai, Bing and more (see below) with a single keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Shift+G).
Whatever is typed at the bottom is entered into all web apps simultaneously, however if you wish to explore one further than the other you can do so independently since they are just webviews. See video demo
Yes and no:
- SOTA functionality is often released without API (eg: ChatGPT Code Interpreter, Bing Image Creator, Bard Multimodal Input, Claude Multifile Upload). We insist on using webapps so that you have full access to all functionality on launch day. We also made light/dark mode for each app, just for fun (
Cmd+Shift+L) - This is a menubar app that can be invoked with a keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Shift+G). Feels a LOT faster than having it live in a browser window somewhere and is easy to pull up/dismiss during long generations.
- Supports local models like LLaMa and Vicuna via OobaBooga.
- No paywall, build from source.
| Provider (default in bold) | Notes |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Defaults to "GPT4.5"! |
| Claude 2 | Login Tip: Use manual email login and remember to type (not paste) the login code! (#56) |
| HuggingChat | Offers Llama2, OpenAssistant |
| Perplexity | Search + Chat |
| Bing | Microsoft's best. It's not the same as GPT-4! |
| Bard | Google's best. Bard's updates are... flaky |
| Local/GGML Models (via OobaBooga) | Requires Local Setup |
| Phind | Developer focused chat |
| OpenAssistant | Coming Soon — Submit a PR! |
| Quora Poe | Added in #118 |
| Vercel Chat | Added in #117 |
| Claude | Requires Beta Access |
| ... What's Else? | Submit a New Issue! |
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Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Use
Cmd+Shift+Gfor quick open andCmd+Enterto submit. - Customize these shortcuts (thanks @davej!):
- Quick Open
- Submit can be toggled to use
Enter(faster for quick chat replies) vsCmd+Enter(easier to enter multiline prompts)
- Quick Open
Cmd+Shift+Lto toggle light/dark mode (not customizable for now)- Remember you can customize further by building from source!
- Use
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Window Resizing and Rearranging:
- Resize the window by clicking and dragging.
- Use
Cmd+1/2/3/A/+/-or drag to resize the internal webviews.Cmd +andCmd -are especially useful if you have a lot of chats enabled!
- open up the panel on the bottom right to reorder panes or reset them to default
Cmd pto pin the window Always on Top (or not)
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Model Toggle:
- Enable/disable providers by accessing the context menu from the menubar icon (right-click and choose from the list). The choice is saved for future sessions.
- Supported models: ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, Claude 1/2, and more (see Supported LLM Providers above)
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Support for oobabooga/text-generation-webui:
- Initial support for oobabooga/text-generation-webui has been added.
- Users need to follow the process outlined in the text-generation-webui repository, including downloading models (e.g. LLaMa-13B-GGML).
- Run the model on
http://127.0.0.1:7860/before running it inside of the smol menubar. - The UI only supports one kind of prompt template. Contributions are welcome to make the templating customizable (see the Oobabooga.js provider).
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Starting New Conversations:
- Use
Cmd+Rto start a new conversation with a simple window refresh.
- Use
- original version https://youtu.be/jrlxT1K4LEU
- Jun 1 version https://youtu.be/ThfFFgG-AzE
- https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1658403625717338112
- https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1663290955804360728?s=20
- July 11 version https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1678944036135260160
You can download the precompiled binaries for MacOS: https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar/releases/latest (sometimes Apple marks these as untrusted/damaged, just open them up in Applications and right-click-open to run it. Or run it from source (instructions below)
The first run creates a desktop shortcut. After the initial setup, you can simply use the generated desktop file to start the application in the future.
When you first run the app:
- log into your Google account (once you log into your google account for chatgpt, you'l also be logged in to Bard).
- For Bing, after you log in to your Microsoft account, you'll need to refresh to get into the Bing Chat screen. It's a little finnicky at first try but it works.
- Login for Anthropic via Google SSO is broken right now - it requires a popup which is blocked at least in my testing. For now just use manual email + login token, it works fine (dont include the extra space at the end from their email!!). If you are familiar with Electron and Webviews, would welcome a PR to fix, we can't figure it out so far.
please see https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
If you want to build from source, you will need to clone the repo and open the project folder:
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Clone the repository and navigate to the project folder:
git clone https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar.git cd menubar npm install # On Windows, you may also need Squirrel - these are old instructions, we would love help to verify # npm install electron-squirrel-startup npm run start # to run in development, locally
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Generate binaries:
npm run package # https://electron-react-boilerplate.js.org/docs/packaging # ts-node scripts/clean.js dist clears the webpackPaths.distPath, webpackPaths.buildPath, webpackPaths.dllPath # npm run build outputs to /release/app/dist/main # electron-builder build --publish never builds and code signs the app. # this is mostly for swyx to publish the official codesigned and notarized releases
The outputs will be located in the
/release/builddirectory.
by default we're mac only - i only have a mac sorry. (we are seeking a "Windows Maintainer"! and someone to help make this work on Arch Linux)
Please let usknow if you hvave windows/linux instructions.
I only later heard about https://github.com/sunner/ChatALL which is cool but I think defaulting to a menbuar/webview experience is better - you get to use full features like Code Interpreter and Claude 2 file upload when they come out, without waiting for API