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Castbar

Your Chromecast remote, right in your Mac menu bar

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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

PH · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Music
  • Menu Bar Apps

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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 : 504 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #186 of 505 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Zapbar · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Relayo · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • SoundFerry · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • LGwebOS-menubar · github · 2026-10-13 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Nunc Sonat · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Screen To TV · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Music Remote Control · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Remote Window · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50

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