Castbar
Your Chromecast remote, right in your Mac menu bar
Details
- External ID
- 1261766
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Castbar
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Music, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Control every Chromecast, Google Home and Nest speaker or TV from your Mac's menu bar: see what's playing, pause, skip, seek and set each speaker's volume without picking up your phone. Free and open source. Install: brew tap itssarthak/castbar → brew trust itssarthak/castbar → brew install castbar
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- chromecast menu bar remote for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a native macOS menu bar app (Swift/SwiftUI) that talks to Chromecasts on the local network using existing Cast protocol libraries/mDNS discovery.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 214 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #60 of 215 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- SoundFerry · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Music Remote Control · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MoniVol · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Apple Sound · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SOUND · ph · 2026-09-26 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- InstantCast · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- TapTick · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- mactooloud · ph · 2026-09-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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