Inbox & Chill

A unified inbox to chill your notifications

Inbox & Chill is a macOS menu bar app that pulls the things that actually need you out of your most important apps & services.

No more bouncing between apps to keep tabs on everything. Everything in one delightfully navigable menu bar app.

Download macOS beta

Version 0.4 · Free while in public beta

The Inbox & Chill menu bar panel, animated. Filter tabs across the top read All, Apple Mail, GitHub, Linear, Local (Terminal & Claude Code), Sentry, Slack and ntfy. The demo switches between tabs and clears items from the queue.

Supports 10 sources (+ more to come)

Want to integrate another notification source? Reach out or contribute.

Keyboard-first

Type anything to filter the list. The full map is in the app's settings pane.

Good to know

Tailored for each source
Snoozing a Linear item snoozes it in Linear, not just here. Terminal and coding agent items group by session. Archiving an Apple Mail item marks the message read.
Customizable badge counts
The menu bar can show a total count, a high-signal-only count, a plain dot, or nothing. Every source decides for itself what counts as high signal, and every source can opt out of the badge entirely.
Not powered by AI
Don't miss an important notification because your agent didn't catch it. Built for folks who want to see & review everything quickly, themselves.
Open source
The code is on GitHub under the MIT licence. Downloading it here gets you a signed, notarized build that keeps itself up to date.
Nothing leaves your Mac
There's no account and no server. Every credential you paste stays in your login keychain, and the sources you connect are read from your machine.
Done isn't gone
Done items go to a searchable 90-day archive and then purge themselves. Pinned items survive everything until you unpin them.

Who made this

I'm Brandon. I'm a product manager, musician, and builder of small tools for people who'd rather not hand their attention to whoever's optimizing for it.

Inbox & Chill was made to help me worry less about all the things sending me notifications and focus a bit more.

Special thanks to Miguel for contributing and everyone who's tried out the beta and shared feedback!

Download the beta

Enter your email to start downloading. I will not send you any marketing emails; I will only occasionally ask for feedback on how Inbox & Chill is working for you.

Free while in public beta.

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