macOS menu bar orchestrator

Take the wheel.

One click. Your entire stack.

47 aboard · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free

Helm

3 workflows

Deep work

6 apps · 3 tabs · 1 terminal

Running

Morning Stack

4 apps · 2 tabs

Run

Design review

3 apps · 1 file

Run

Chrome

Slack

Notion

Linear

Figma

VS Code

Terminal

Spotify

Mail

Calendar

Figjam

Zoom

One click. Your entire stack.

Built like an instrument

Precise where it counts.

Menu bar native.

No Dock icon. No splash screen. Helm lives where power users already look — one click from the wheel.

One click. Your stack.

Apps, tabs, files, terminal sessions, and focus modes — all configured, all opened at once.

Local and private.

Workflows live in plain JSON on your machine. Nothing syncs, nothing phones home. Your data stays yours.

How it works

Four steps. Then never again.

01Configure onceDefine a workflow — the apps, tabs, files, and focus mode it should open.

02Click the wheelOne click on the menu bar mark opens the popover.

03Your stack opensEverything launches and arranges itself in seconds.

04Take the wheelDrop into the work. Helm gets out of the way.

See it run

No mockups. The real thing.

Under the hood

engineJXA — JavaScript for Automation. Talks to macOS directly. Not URL schemes, not shortcut hacks.

config~/Library/Application Support/Helm/workflows.json — plain JSON, yours to edit.

networknone. Nothing syncs, nothing phones home.

footprintmenu bar only — no Dock icon, no splash screen.

Everything.

Take the wheel.

47 aboard · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free