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The split-flap departure board that replaces your Mac’s menu bar clock, then tucks every other icon away until you ask.

v1.0  ·  macOS 14+  ·  APPLE SILICON & INTEL

Everything you glance at, on one row

Pick what the board rotates through, then set how often it flips. Click an icon to preview it.

More modes on the way.

Make it yours

Every mode, the flip rate, the width of the strip, and the colours. Pick any text colour from the wheel, sit the board on a wallpaper or a plain colour, or leave it on Auto and it reads whatever is behind it.

Text
Background

Any colour text on any wallpaper or plain background. Animated and dynamic wallpapers shift behind the board, so they may not blend quite as cleanly.

A bar with nothing to prove

Flappi Bar tucks your other menu bar icons off-screen, Control Centre included, and runs the stats beside your clock. Hover the board and Flappi steps aside, handing back your real icons and clock; move away and it flips back over them.

Hover the bar to watch it step aside.

THE STORY

It started at an airport

I’ve always loved split-flap boards. Standing under one, waiting for my gate to turn over, there’s a beat where the whole thing clatters and you have no choice but to wait for the answer. Nothing else waits like that anymore. There was something about it I wanted back.

FLAPPI BAR is that feeling on your Mac. A single calm row at the top of the screen, quietly turning over the things you’d otherwise reach for your phone to check, the time anywhere in the world, the weather, whatever is next on your calendar. Barely there when you don’t need it, and everything that matters right where you look when you do.

Reads your wallpaper,
picks its own colour

Every mode and colour,
yours to tune

Hides every icon,
even Control Centre

Get FLAPPI BAR

Buy FLAPPI BAR  ·  $20 USD
One-time payment  ·  Instant Download  ·  secure checkout via Lemon Squeezy
1 · Drag to ApplicationsUnzip, drop Flappi Bar.app into Applications.
2 · First openBecause it isn’t from the App Store, macOS blocks it the first time. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway. Just once, then it opens normally.
3 · Grant AccessibilityUsed to find where your clock sits and tuck icons away. It reads your wallpaper to blend the board in, never your keystrokes.

Once it’s running, hover the board and Flappi steps aside, handing back your other icons and clock; move away and it flips back over them. Press Shift-Command-B (⇧⌘B) any time to open Settings; quit from there with Command-Q.

COMING SOON

The whole board, on any screen

FLAPPI takes the full split-flap display to your tablet, laptop, smart TV, or a wall of them. For the desk or the storefront, personal or business.

The physical boards cost thousands, ship in months, and jam when a flap sticks. This is the same feeling on hardware you already own.

Good to know

Is it distracting?

No. Flappi never buzzes, badges or pops up. The board flips quietly every few seconds and you glance at it when you feel like it. It is something to look at, not something that grabs at you. Your latest text can sit in the corner of your eye without pulling you out of what you are doing.

How do the text and email modes work?

Flappi reads Messages and Mail on your own Mac. Texts and iMessages use Full Disk Access; Gmail reads through Apple Mail and asks to control it. Both are one-time macOS permissions, and no message ever leaves your machine.

What permissions does it need?

Only what a feature uses. Accessibility to tuck your other icons away, Screen Recording so the board blends into your wallpaper, and optionally Full Disk Access or Mail for the message modes. Nothing is recorded, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Which Macs does it run on?

macOS 14 (Sonoma) and up, on both Apple Silicon and Intel.

Is it a subscription?

No. FLAPPI BAR is a one-time purchase, yours to keep, with no account to create.

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