BUSY Bar Apps
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Apps (51)
Claude Approve
Answer Claude Code prompts from the bar - permissions, plan approval and multiple-choice questions - with the wheel and START button.
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Workout Timer
Interval timer for Tabata, fixed-rest (work at your own pace) and fixed-work (rest as long as you need) workouts, set up on the bar, with BUSY timer sounds and a recap.
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GitHub PRs
Your open pull requests at a glance. Counts for ready, running, failing and waiting, a scrolling line of what needs you, and a banner when one is ready to merge, fails or gets merged.
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Apple Music Winamp
macOS Apple Music controls with song, artist, progress, a time counter, decorative Winamp-style visualizers, and animated lightning credits.
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Sonos Now Playing
Shows the currently playing Sonos track and artist on the BUSY Bar. Auto-discovers speakers; clears the display when playback stops.
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FRT Ticker
Live Internet routing statistics including IPv4/IPv6 prefixes, FRT size, RPKI status, AS-path length, top origin ASes, and IPv6 adoption.
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Lava Lamp
A procedural lava lamp for BUSY Bar with flowing metaballs, surface tension, natural merging and splitting, and highly customizable motion and colors.
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DVD Bounce
The classic bouncing DVD screensaver. A colorful pixel logo ricochets around the bar, changes color at every bounce, and occasionally hits the perfect corner.
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Spotify Now Playing
Shows Spotify now playing with progress, play/pause, skip, and volume controls from the BUSY Bar.
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Busy Codex
Live Codex task status, account limits and weekly progress, with a reasoning effort dial and START-button Fast mode control for Codex Desktop and a native-control CLI fork.
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Counter
A simple counter app with custom formatting and caching. For queue management, or just counting things.
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Media Player Karaoke
Shows synced song lyrics on BUSY Bar with karaoke highlighting, playback controls, scrolling metadata, and optional two-line lyric mode.
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GCal Glance
Ambient Google Calendar display for BUSY Bar — at-a-glance meeting countdowns, alerts, and live schedule awareness.
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Lunar Phases
Animated lunar phases for BUSY Bar, showing the current Moon phase with multilingual labels, automatic replay, and button-triggered animation.
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Magic 8-Ball
Interactive Magic 8-Ball for BUSY Bar with animated rolling, multilingual answers, button control, and optional auto-roll.
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GitHub Actions
Live GitHub Actions status for the repos you pick: a progress bar while a run works, confetti when it passes, and a red hold naming the job that failed.
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Uptime Bar
Connects to your Uptime Kuma instance and draws every monitor as one cell in a wall of pixels: dim green while all is well, then a red takeover naming the site and its downtime when one fails.
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Pixel Runner
An endless jump-and-duck runner on the 72x16 panel. START jumps, OK or BACK ducks; cacti and birds come at you, the world speeds up, day turns to night. Left alone it plays itself.
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Slot Machine
Animated classic fruit-machine slot for BUSY Bar with automatic or START-button spins, cumulative score, win effects, jackpot animations, and sound.
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BusyBar Pinball
A colorful 90s-style pinball DMD attract mode with scores, jackpots, bonus multipliers, racing animations, Extra Ball, and Insert Coin sequences.
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Weather Forecast
Current weather and multi-day forecasts for BUSY Bar, with configurable location, units, and language.
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Countdown
Animated countdown to any moment, coarse when far off and mm:ss in the final hour, with amber/red thresholds and a red count-up once it passes.
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Character
A parametric face that reacts to your machine - CPU load, live Claude Code turns, battery, keyboard idle - and to the bar's buttons and wheel. It blinks, glances around, sweats, and takes a punch.
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Media Player
Displays system-wide Now Playing information and provides media controls for BUSY Bar.
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Tide Clock
Alternates between a big clock and the next tide (high/low, height, time) for any NOAA station.
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NYC Subway
Live next-train departures for any NYC subway station — pick station, direction and lines; MTA route bullets, minutes to train, departure flash. GTFS-realtime, no API key.
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Pixel Aquarium
A relaxing procedural pixel aquarium for BUSY Bar, with colorful fish, bubbles, swaying seaweed, and a smooth day/night cycle.
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Matrix Digital Rain
Matrix-style digital rain animation for BUSY Bar, with configurable character size, speed, density, and color theme.
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Waves Simulator
A lava-lamp-like ocean animation for BUSY Bar, with colorful moving waves, smooth transitions from calm to stormy seas, realistic gradients, foam, reflections, sound and configurable speed.
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GitHub Repo
Display a single Github-Repo with stars, forks, open issues and open pull requests. Counts flash when they change.
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RSS Feed Scroller
Fetch an RSS feed and show it
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Text Display
Show some text. That's it!
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Busy Defaults
Activates a built-in BUSY Bar mode and releases it on exit. Themes: busy, keep_out, dnd, meeting, on_call, lunch, back_soon, booked, flow, chill_time, on_air, coding, low_social_battery.
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Crypto Ticker
Live crypto prices on the LED matrix -- logo, price and 24h change per coin, with a top-button pause and wheel scrubbing. Prices from CoinGecko.
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Bad Apple
It has a screen? It can play Bad Apple. And yes, with audio, too!
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Claude Limits
Live Claude Code usage — 5-hour session and weekly limit bars with time to reset, an animated Clawd mascot, and a session-activity readout.
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BusyBar Codex
Tactile Codex controller with live task status, actions, navigation, reasoning control, and push-to-talk dictation.
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Home Assistant
Browse and control Home Assistant lights with the BUSY Bar dial, Select, and Start controls.
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Revenue Bar
Stripe + Paddle net revenue on your bar. Day, week, month and year to date with trend sparklines and same-point deltas.
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Flightradar
Quiet until a plane flies over, then a split-flap board shows its callsign, aircraft type, route, and live altitude and speed, from live ADS-B data.
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Audio Visualizer
Live microphone spectrum on the LEDs: five render styles (bars, mirror, segments, dots, wave) and colour themes.
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Pollen Alarm
Hay fever alarm for Europe. Quiet while pollen is low, then the worst species with a 24 hour intensity timeline, a marker on the announced hour and drifting pollen specks. Data from Open-Meteo.
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ISS Alert
Stays quiet until the space station passes near you. Then a pseudo 3D ISS slides across a twinkling starfield, hangs overhead with live distance, and drifts off the far edge as it leaves.
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GitHub Graph
Your GitHub contribution graph on the bar. Username in a 7px pixel font above 72 weeks of history, one pixel per day. Long names scroll, and there are green, orange, and blue themes.
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Buienradar Alarm
Dutch rain alarm that takes the screen only when rain is coming. Shows minutes until rain or until dry, plus a 2-hour Buienradar intensity timeline colored from drizzle to downpour.
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BusyBar-Custom-Scroll
Continuous scrolling ticker with network-synced date/time, weather, moon phase, NOAA tides, and season-aware sports scores. City, tide station, and teams are configurable via config.json.
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Nyan Cat
The classic nyan cat - pop-tart cat with a rainbow trail and twinkling stars.
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Moneybird Invoice Paid
Watches your Moneybird administration and celebrates every newly paid invoice with a coin rain, an odometer count-up of the amount and a cash-register sound.
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Mac Monitor
Mac system monitor - CPU, memory and network as live bars.
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Clock
Customizable Clock widget - customizable, big time, refreshed every second.
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Pixel Fire
Demoscene pixel effects - fire, matrix rain, and plasma.
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