Nazar

Nazar watches the services you depend on, right from your macOS menu bar.

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Features

• Monitor 1,600+ services from your menu bar
• Outage alerts and service updates for tools you rely on
• Built-in catalog with one-click setup (5 services in under 60 seconds)
• Color-coded menu bar icon (green/yellow/orange/red)
• Supports Atlassian Statuspage, incident.io, and RSS/Atom feeds
• Configurable per-service poll intervals
• Native macOS app (SwiftUI, no Electron)
• Free and open source (Apache-2.0)

Install

Download the latest .dmg from GitHub Releases.

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Development Setup

Prerequisites: Xcode 15+, macOS 14+

git clone https://github.com/moollaza/nazar.git
cd nazar
open StatusMonitor.xcodeproj

Build and run the StatusMonitor scheme in Xcode.

The internal Xcode project, target, and scheme still use StatusMonitor for build continuity. The shipped app name is Nazar.

CLI build:

xcodebuild -project StatusMonitor.xcodeproj -scheme StatusMonitor -configuration Release build

Releasing

One-time setup:

1. (Optional but recommended) Install create-dmg for a polished install-DMG layout with the app icon + "drag to Applications" arrow:

brew install create-dmg

The release script works without it — falls back to a plain DMG + symlink. Drag-to-install still works, just no background image.

2. Store your Apple notarization credentials in the macOS Keychain:

xcrun notarytool store-credentials AC_PASSWORD \
    --apple-id <your-apple-id-email> \
    --team-id W4HBM3A7DC \
    --password <app-specific-password>

Generate the app-specific password at appleid.apple.com → Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords. The credentials live in your Keychain; AC_PASSWORD is just the default profile name the release script references. Set KEYCHAIN_PROFILE=<profile> when running the script to use a different profile name.

Build a signed, notarized, stapled DMG:

scripts/release.sh

Output: build/release/Nazar-<version>.dmg.

For a local smoke test without hitting Apple's notary service:

scripts/release.sh --skip-notarize

Tech Stack

• Swift 5.9+, SwiftUI
• @Observable (Swift 5.9 macro)
• URLSession for network polling
• App Sandbox with com.apple.security.network.client
• LSUIElement menu bar accessory (no Dock icon)
• Static website in website/, deployed by Cloudflare Pages Git integration
• website/catalog.json is committed for no-build Pages deploys; website visual CI verifies it matches Resources/catalog.json

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines. To request a missing service, use the Service Request issue template.

License

Apache License 2.0.