macOS menu-bar task assistant

Out of your inboxes.
Onto one board.
Done, with AI.

Tasks hide in Slack threads, emails, and tickets — until they slip. Glance pulls them onto one board, keeps them in front of you, and finishes them with the Claude Code or Codex CLI you're already signed into.

Get Glance How it works

No API keys. No account. No subscription backend.

Glance FileEditViewWindow Glance Wed 19:52
Glance Tasks
Fix flaky overlay dismiss test
P1 today code Running
2/3 steps
GLAN-214: Retry expired token during pull
P0 today Queued
Reply to #eng-infra thread about CI runners
P2 Aug 25 Plan review
Confirm launch timeline with Northstar Labs
P2 tomorrow Review
Drag to arrange · click a title to open details
3 done today

2-day streak
Idle

The task board (⌥T): captured in a keystroke or pulled from your tools, triaged by AI, gone only when it's done. The strip on each card's edge shows where it came from — Jira blue, Slack aubergine, Gmail red.

What it does

Nothing slips through

Glance lives in your menu bar. Tasks land on one canvas — typed in a keystroke or pulled in from your tools — and they stay in front of you until they're done.

One board for everything ⌥T

Capture a task the second it crosses your mind — press N, type, done. AI enriches and prioritizes it, and the momentum meter keeps score of what you finished today.

Your tools, one inbox

The ask in a Slack thread, the email needing a reply, the Jira ticket — pulled read-only through your own Composio account into one inbox, behind an accept gate. Nothing is created or sent for you.

Ask about your screen ⌥Space

Stuck on something? Hit the hotkey, and whatever is on your display becomes the context for a question. The answer streams into a translucent overlay; Esc and you're back to work.

Gated autopilot

Autonomy with a human in the loop

Code tasks run in a fresh git worktree — your checkout is never touched. The agent is denied git push at the CLI permission layer, not just by prompt.

Run with AI

Every task has a button that finishes it

Open any task and hit Run with AI. Glance hands it to your CLI with full context, and the result comes back as a draft — never sent, never committed, until you say so.

  • Drafts the email reply

    Subject and body written from the thread's ask — copy it or edit, then you send.

  • Writes the Slack response

    Answers the thread it was pulled from, in your voice, ready to paste.

  • Does the research

    Digs in and reports back with findings you can act on.

  • Writes the code

    In an isolated worktree, through the plan and review gates — you get a branch.

Whatever the task is, the run completes it — and stops at your gate.

Close Mark done Redraft Run with AI
Confirm the launch timeline and reply to Northstar Labs
P2 · Ready Communication client timeline Auto — Codex CLI
Description Edit

Sender: Northstar Labs

Ask: Confirm whether Friday’s handoff still works, or suggest a time early next week for the launch review.

Open email
Draft Copy · Edit

Subject: Re: PROJECT TIMELINE

Hi,

Friday’s handoff still works for us. If that’s moved, we can review the launch plan early next week.

Could you confirm the time and share the latest checklist?

Best,

[Your name]

Bring your own AI

Your CLI is the provider

Pick the locally installed, signed-in CLI in Settings. Glance reuses that sign-in for every AI feature — task runs, enrichment, suggestions, and ask.

Claude Code CLI

Supported

Runs one persistent session for fast follow-ups. Uses your existing claude sign-in — Glance never sees a key.

Codex CLI

Supported

Same features, same gates. Composio settings are passed only to the specific child process that needs them — never written to your global config.

Get Glance

Build it in two commands

Glance is a personal tool you build from source. You'll need macOS and either the Claude Code or Codex CLI signed in.

git clone https://github.com/nekruza/glance-1.git && cd glance-1
./Scripts/build-app.sh

First launch walks you through hotkeys, permissions, and picking a provider.