A lightweight macOS menu bar app that streams the latest papers from 130+ journals directly to your desktop. Never miss a new publication again.
Econbar lives quietly in your macOS menu bar, keeping you connected to the frontier of economics research — zero effort required.
Paper titles scroll smoothly across your menu bar using display-linked animation on macOS 14+, with a high-performance timer fallback on macOS 13. Glance up to see what's new.
Covers all Top 5 economics journals, finance, applied micro, macro, econometrics, political economy, accounting, marketing, and more — updated automatically.
A dedicated floating window lets you toggle individual journals on or off with Select All / Deselect All controls. Only see papers from the fields that matter to you.
Click any paper to open it directly in your browser. The dropdown shows full journal name, title, authors, and publication date at a glance.
Adjust the ticker width and scrolling speed with built-in sliders. Settings persist between sessions automatically via macOS preferences.
Papers update every 30 minutes automatically. If the network is down, Econbar retries with exponential backoff — so it recovers gracefully without you lifting a finger.
Toggle "Launch at Login" from the menu and Econbar starts with your Mac every morning. Uses native macOS login items — no helper apps or background daemons.
The ticker automatically pauses when you open the dropdown menu, so you can read paper details without the text scrolling away. It resumes the moment you close the menu.
Built in pure Swift with no Electron, no web views, no runtime dependencies. A single universal binary under 2 MB that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
No sign-up. No configuration. Just download and go.
Download the app and drag it to your Applications folder. Econbar is a single, lightweight binary — no dependencies, no runtime. Works on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Open the app. It sits quietly in your menu bar and immediately starts fetching the latest papers. No Dock icon, no windows — just a ticker. Enable "Launch at Login" to have it start automatically every day.
Watch paper titles scroll by. Click the ticker to see details — journal name, authors, date, and a direct link to the paper. Use the filter panel to select exactly which journals you want to follow.
Download Econbar for free and let the latest research come to you.
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