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Hoot: macOS Menu Bar App with Widgets, Tools, and Screenshot Management

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Sobhan Eskandari

8mo ago· 2 min readenProduct

Summary

Hoot is a new macOS menu bar application that consolidates widgets, tools, and screenshot management into a single accessible location. It aims to reduce the number of clicks needed for common tasks like checking weather, taking screenshots, preventing sleep mode, and accessing quick tools. The app includes widgets for weather, battery, calendar, network, and crypto, plus 12 handy tools and a recent screenshots tray with drag-and-drop functionality.

Key quotes

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what if all of this just lived in the menu bar? And boom—Hoot was born
we spend way too much time on our Macs, and we kept getting annoyed by how many clicks it took to do simple stuff
Widgets for things you always want to glance at (weather, battery, calendar, network, crypto)
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Hoot is a lightweight minibar for macOS featuring Widgets, handy Tools, and a Recent Screenshots tray with drag & drop.

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