Runyard

Your entire dev stack, one menu bar click away.

Runyard is a macOS menu bar app that orchestrates your local development environment. Start, stop, and monitor all your services (backends, frontends, databases, proxies) from a single dropdown. No more juggling terminal tabs.

Requires macOS 13.0 or later

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Features

One-Click Orchestration

Start your entire stack with a single click. Sequential startup with dependency management ensures services launch in the right order.

Health Monitoring

HTTP-based health checks with real-time status tracking. Know instantly when a service is running, starting, stopped, or in error.

Flexible Configuration

Define services, shortcuts, and groups in a simple JSON config. Organize tools in hierarchical menus that match how you think about your stack.

Custom Actions

Run shell commands, open URLs, execute AppleScripts, or reveal files — all from contextual menu actions attached to each tool.

Native & Lightweight

Pure Swift and AppKit — no Electron, no web views. Lives in your menu bar with zero dock clutter and minimal resource usage.

Screenshots

Your dev stack, one click away.

Start, stop, and monitor from the menu bar.

Runyard menu bar — start, stop, and monitor your dev stack

Your shortcuts, your rules.

Group links, actions, and services your way.

Runyard settings — group links, actions, and services

Fine-tuned control when it matters.

Health checks, timeouts, and graceful shutdowns.

Config as code. No magic.

One JSON file to rule your entire stack.

Runyard JSON configuration — config as code