Download
Pairbar for Mac
Pairbar for macOS ships soon. Then it’s free for 7 days with everything on. macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon, with the Claude desktop app, the Codex desktop app, or both.
Pairbar: coming soon
Apple silicon · macOS 26+
Pre-order: Pairbar for macOS ships soon. Your licence key is emailed now; the download link is emailed the moment 1.0 is released.
Until then you can pre-order the $129 lifetime Founding licence (first 200 buyers); yearly and monthly start at launch. Full refund any time before release, and 14 days after.
Already bought? Nothing to do: we’ll email you the download the day 1.0 is out, to the address you bought with. Your licence key is in your receipt.
Opens without warnings
Pairbar is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper opens it normally. If macOS says it can’t check Pairbar for malicious software, the copy didn’t come from here: delete it and download it again from this page. Updates are signed too, and Pairbar installs only updates signed with its own key.Install in a minute
- 1
Open the DMG
Double-click the downloaded Pairbar-<version>.dmg.
- 2
Drag Pairbar to Applications
Then open it from Applications or Spotlight.
- 3
Allow Accessibility
System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility → Pairbar. It uses it to place the Claude and Codex windows in one spot and to react to ⌥ and ⌘.
- 4
Open Claude or Codex
The sidebar appears over the app's own. Your 7-day trial starts now, with everything on.
Updates
Pairbar checks for updates once a day and asks before installing. You can also choose Check for Updates… in its menu-bar menu. See what changed in the changelog.Optional command-line tools
claude for forks, follow-ups, workflows and helper chats (plan limits only as a last resort); codex for forks, archive and follow-ups; gh for pull-request status. Pairbar finds them wherever you installed them.