WebAppBar - Menu Bar Mini Browser

A lightweight, fast, focused macOS menu bar mini browser designed for quick access to mobile-friendly websites.

Features

• Menu bar only — Click the 🌐 icon in the menu bar to open a popover window; no Dock icon
• Embedded WebView — Uses WKWebView; all pages load in-app without opening external browsers
• Smart URL completion — Auto-completes https://; adds protocol when missing
• Shortcut names — Type gpt, b, x, etc. to jump directly to corresponding sites
• Search fallback — Non-URL text is automatically searched via Google
• Mobile viewport — User-Agent set to iPhone for mobile layouts
• Auto focus — Input field auto-focuses when popover opens for immediate typing
• Navigation controls — Back / Forward / Refresh / Stop buttons
• Quick access bar — One-click shortcuts for common sites at the bottom
• JS dialog support — Handles alert() / confirm() / prompt()
• New window handling — window.open() opens in the current WebView
• Loading progress bar — Real-time page load progress
• Dark mode — Follows macOS system theme
• History — Keeps last 50 visited URLs

Shortcut Name Mapping

Shortcut	Site
gpt / g	chatgpt.com
b	m.bilibili.com
x	x.com
wb	m.weibo.cn
yt	m.youtube.com
gh	github.com
zhihu	zhihu.com
db	m.douban.com
xhs	xiaohongshu.com
wiki	zh.m.wikipedia.org
rd	reddit.com
tb	m.taobao.com
jd	m.jd.com
dy	m.douyin.com
tt	m.toutiao.com
bing	bing.com
ggl	google.com

Requirements

• macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later
• Xcode 15.0+

Project Structure

WebAppBar/
├── WebAppBarApp.swift           # App entry, MenuBarExtra config
├── Models/
│   ├── WebViewModel.swift       # WebView state (loading, navigation, history)
│   └── ShortcutManager.swift    # Shortcut mapping + URL parsing
├── Views/
│   ├── MainView.swift           # Main layout (nav bar + progress + WebView + quick bar)
│   ├── NavigationBar.swift      # Top nav (back/forward/refresh + URL input + Go)
│   ├── QuickAccessBar.swift     # Bottom quick-access site buttons
│   └── WebViewRepresentable.swift # WKWebView ↔ SwiftUI bridge
├── Assets.xcassets/             # Assets
├── Info.plist                   # App config (LSUIElement for no Dock icon)
└── WebAppBar.entitlements       # Entitlements (Sandbox + network)

WebAppBar.xcodeproj/            # Xcode project (open directly)
project.yml                     # XcodeGen config (optional, for regenerating .xcodeproj)

Quick Start

Option 1: Open Xcode project directly

open WebAppBar.xcodeproj

Press Cmd + R in Xcode to run.

Option 2: Regenerate project with XcodeGen

brew install xcodegen
xcodegen generate
open WebAppBar.xcodeproj

License

MIT