MeetingBar is a lightweight macOS menu-bar application that displays your current or next calendar meeting and enables joining it with a single click.
The tool solves the problem of calendar meetings being buried in applications or requiring manual navigation to join. It works by monitoring your calendar events, extracting meeting links, and surfacing them in the macOS status bar where they remain constantly visible. The app detects meeting links from calendar events and supports over fifty meeting services including Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Discord. It integrates with both macOS Calendar and Google Calendar, allowing you to use any calendar account synchronized with Calendar.app such as iCloud, Exchange, Office 365, or Yahoo, or to connect Google Calendar directly.
MeetingBar suits developers and professionals who spend significant time in back-to-back meetings and want to reduce friction in joining them. The tool is particularly valuable for those using multiple meeting services, as it automatically detects which service hosts each meeting and can open links in a preferred browser or native app per service. It also offers meeting reminders through macOS notifications and full-screen alerts, event filtering to hide all-day or declined meetings, and customization options like title shortening to keep the menu bar readable. The application is free, open source, and privacy-respecting, with no personal data collection.
The project maintains steady activity with regular updates addressing user-reported issues and feature requests. Development includes ongoing expansion of supported meeting services based on community discussion. The maintainer actively engages with users through troubleshooting documentation and maintains multiple distribution channels including the Mac App Store, Homebrew, and direct DMG downloads. The codebase is written in Swift and the project accepts community contributions through its open source model.
