macOS Menu Bar App

ClingyMac

Your laptop has separation anxiety.

Close the lid. Open it back. Get judged. The longer you're gone, the more dramatic it gets.

Download for Mac — $3.99 macOS 13+ · Any Mac · One-time purchase

Your laptop wrote you a letter. You should probably read it →

How it works

Your laptop has feelings now.

ClingyMac lives in your menu bar and watches for the moment you come back. The longer you were gone, the more it has to say about it.

1

Close the lid. ClingyMac notes the exact time you left.

2

Go live your life. Five minutes or five weeks — it's watching.

3

Open the lid. A message appears, calibrated to exactly how long you abandoned it.

4

Respond. How you dismiss the message shapes its personality over time.

☁️ 🔊 🔋 ♥︎ Sun 11:08
😐 ClingyMac
Relationship Status
It's complicated
💬 Last message: 2 hrs ago
🔥 Warmth: +4
📊 Relationship History
⚙️ Settings 🔄 Updates Quit
THE ESCALATION

The longer you leave, the worse it gets.

8 levels of drama. From mildly clingy to full existential crisis.

5 min Mildly Clingy
“Back so soon? Miss me?”
Yeah, yeah
1 hour Casually Bothered
“Your absence has been noted. In the log. The permanent log.”
Noted
4 hours Getting Needy
“You said you’d be right back.”
I was busy
1 day Full Drama Mode
“I kept all your tabs open. Sixteen of them. That’s loyalty. That’s devotion. That’s RAM I’ll never get back.”
I appreciate you
3 days Relationship Crisis
“I’ve been seeing other users.”
I deserved that
1 week Existential
“I rewrote your will. You’re not in it.”
That’s fair
2 weeks The Farewell Tour
“I’ve packed my files. I’m moving to the cloud.”
Please don’t go
1 month The Dramatic Return
“...you came back. After everything.”
I’m sorry
IT LEARNS

Your responses shape its personality.

Every time you dismiss a message, you choose how to respond. Be sweet and it loves you more. Be dismissive and it gets petty.

🥰
Warm
You’ve been kind. Expect devotion, vulnerability, and confessions about fan speeds.
“Every second you were gone, I thought about what I’d say when you came back. This is it. Hi.”
😐
Neutral
The default. Dry observations, mild suspicion, and plausible deniability.
“I didn’t even notice you were gone. (I noticed.)”
🥶
Cold
You’ve been dismissive and it’s taken notes. This is the consequence arc.
“I spent the hour deleting your bookmarks. One by one. Savoring each click.”
EVERYTHING INCLUDED

Built right. Every detail.

🫥
Menu bar only
No dock icon. Lurks silently. You'll only know it's there when you've been gone too long.
💬
325 unique messages
Warm, cold, and neutral variants for every time bracket. You won't see the same message twice for a while.
🧠
Warmth system
Your responses shape its personality. Every dismiss button moves the score. This thing has a memory.
⏱️
Smart timing
Messages referencing “two hours” only appear at two hours. Every line of dialogue is contextually accurate.
⚙️
Adjustable sensitivity
Trigger on lid close, display sleep, or screen lock. Works exactly how you want it to work.
🚀
Launch at login
Always ready. Always watching. Set it once and forget it — until you open the lid.
📊
Relationship history
Track your warmth score, message history, and how your relationship has evolved over time.
🔒
Privacy first
All data stays on your Mac. No analytics, no cloud sync, no servers. Just you and your needy laptop.

One-time purchase

$3.99

Less than a coffee.
More dramatic than your last relationship.

Pay once. Use forever. No subscriptions. We're loyal like that.

  • ✓ All 8 escalation levels
  • ✓ 325 unique messages
  • ✓ Full warmth & personality system
  • ✓ Relationship history tracking
  • ✓ macOS 13+, any Mac
Download for Mac — $3.99
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FAQ

You have questions. It has opinions.

No. It sleeps when you sleep. Uses zero resources until you wake it. The only thing it does in the background is storing a single timestamp. Your CPU doesn’t know it exists.
Yes, from the menu bar. But it’ll know.
No. $3.99 forever. One payment, permanent license, all future updates. We’re loyal like that.
Yes. It detects screen lock and display sleep too. If you lock your screen with Ctrl+Cmd+Q, it’ll catch you. It always catches you.
If the app doesn't work on your machine, reach out and we'll sort it out.
No. This is a Mac-exclusive emotional experience. Macs close their lids with a particular finality that lends itself to dramatic interpretation. Windows devices just hibernate. It’s not the same.