Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
by mgrunwald_ on 3/30/2026, 11:25:50 AM
https://www.mgrunwald.com/ghostmoon/
Comments
by: ctmnt
This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard.<p>I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month, and the yearly developer account fee seems minor in comparison<p>Also, it’s just such a bad security precedent. This page describes the error you get as “the typical macOS Gatekeeper warning”, as though it were just another piece of corporate silliness, like clicking through a EULA.
3/30/2026, 11:54:52 AM
by: nehal3m
Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.
3/30/2026, 11:54:12 AM
by: jofzar
Interestingly to me this is what raycast actually is for me now. Most of my common workflows are just raycast keybinds now or quickly typed in.<p>An example is I have my airpods bound to ctrl+alt+b to connect via Bluetooth. This is to have it yank back control from my android phone.
3/30/2026, 11:46:46 AM
by: apples_oranges
Nice, but, and this is not personal, I would not trust this app with my computer internals. Probably also asks for sudo from time to time.. but I might ask Claude to make something similar for myself.. (sorry but just being honest)
3/30/2026, 11:55:47 AM
by: alsetmusic
I get that there's a market to put command line preferences in a GUI wrapper, but wasn't HN going to limit posts from new accounts? Oh, it's not in Show HN. They found a loophole.<p>Meanwhile, I'm running Claude Code and asking it to make me stupid bespoke things that only I want and I'm not spamming the internet with those tools because they aren't novel or useful for most people and you can have Claude Code build a version for the way that you work.<p>Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence.
3/30/2026, 12:45:30 PM
by: incanus77
A similar app in this space that I discovered recently is Supercharge.<p><a href="https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge" rel="nofollow">https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge</a><p>I was skeptical that I’d find it useful since I can do all of these shell commands and such, but one feature I like is being able to effectively pare the feature set down to just what you need, making for a small but very useful menu.
3/30/2026, 1:40:32 PM
by: RicDan
Interesting how posts like these seem to be catapulted to #1 spot so quickly
3/30/2026, 12:15:03 PM
by: heavyshark
This looks cool but I'd probably always prefer Raycast over this. The menubar gets crowded enough even with Ice, Bartender etc...
3/30/2026, 1:45:54 PM
by: vivid242
Lovely! Would appreciate a release via the App Store / notarization or so… is there a newsletter so I could get notified?
3/30/2026, 11:45:31 AM
by: antryu
The pricing debate is interesting. I'm running a similar service and found that giving away as much as possible for free helps build initial trust — getting people to actually try it once is the hardest part.<p>Pre-release feedback from the community is definitely valuable though. I didn't know this part is the most diffcult.
3/30/2026, 12:32:15 PM
by: pieterhg
Awesome. Can you add extra bright mode like Vivid? I'd love to get rid of Vivid cause it's so buggy and never re-enables after I close my MacBook Pro
3/30/2026, 12:16:24 PM
by: qn9n
This is cool but most of this stuff for me is just set and forget, I rarely need to change those things so frequently I need it in my menu bar.
3/30/2026, 12:12:33 PM
by: lukifer
Cool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later.<p>- Website looks great overall, but the fixed and overlaid header title is awkward and hurts readability for not much benefit.<p>- Battery Health on my M3 Max MBP reads as "1%", when System Report shows Condition: Normal, Maximum Capacity: 100%. What is this reading from?<p>- Handy password generator is great; any chance of an option for "correct horse" [0] style passwords? I find these are preferable for reasonably secure passwords which can still be remembered or hand-typed as needed.<p>Looking forward to seeing how the app evolves!<p>[0] <a href="https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net" rel="nofollow">https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net</a>
3/30/2026, 1:17:13 PM
by: andersonpico
vibe coded bullshit; also why is it top of the front page? are we botting votes now?
3/30/2026, 1:23:10 PM
by: fouc
in your "demo" image the menu bar is completely missing.. this seems like a very confusing choice. I can barely make out the menu bar icon against the background image.
3/30/2026, 12:35:07 PM
by: woadwarrior01
This reminds of a similar windows shareware system tray app from ~25 years ago called Genius.
3/30/2026, 11:46:43 AM
by: gsibble
Yeah, I'm not trusting some app like that randomly on my computer.
3/30/2026, 12:06:41 PM
by: subdomain
Seems really useful -- I love the website design!
3/30/2026, 11:29:26 AM
by: sosuke
Unrelated to the app but I dig your website design.
3/30/2026, 1:03:49 PM
by: vladde
the website design is cool as h*ck
3/30/2026, 12:05:22 PM