🐱KittyTaskbar
Free & open source · macOS 13+

A taskbar for kitty,
in your menu bar.

macOS has no per-window taskbar, and the Dock groups every kitty window under one icon. KittyTaskbar lists all your kitty windows and tabs from the menu bar — one click away.

Install with Homebrew View on GitHub
KittyTaskbar popover listing kitty windows and tabs, with a drop zone to detach a tab into a new window
The popover: every kitty window and tab, grouped and clickable.
Features

Small app, does one thing well

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Every window, every tab

Lists all kitty OS windows and their tabs, grouped per window, refreshed every time the panel opens.

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One-click focus

Click a tab to focus it and bring kitty to the front. The active tab shows a checkmark.

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Drag & drop tabs

Drag a tab by its grip handle onto another window group to move it there.

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Detach into a new window

Drop a tab onto the dashed area at the bottom to detach it into its own OS window.

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Splits included

Splits inside a tab are listed as indented rows — and they're clickable too.

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Multiple instances

Works with several running kitty instances at once. Signed and notarized by Apple.

Setup

Enable kitty remote control

KittyTaskbar talks to kitty over its remote control socket. Add these two lines to ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf and restart kitty:

kitty.conf 
allow_remote_control yes
listen_on unix:/tmp/kitty-{kitty_pid}
Install

Up and running in a minute

Homebrew

zsh 
$ brew tap muarifer/tap
$ brew trust muarifer/tap
$ brew install --cask kitty-taskbar

Releases are signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple — Gatekeeper allows them without extra steps.

From source

zsh 
$ git clone https://github.com/muarifer/kitty-taskbar.git
$ cd kitty-taskbar
$ ./build.sh
$ open KittyTaskbar.app

To start at login, add KittyTaskbar.app to System Settings → General → Login Items.