Quiver

⬇ Download the latest release (macOS 13+). Open the .dmg and drag Quiver into Applications. First launch needs a one-time approval (details below).

A single macOS menu-bar app that holds a quiver of small utilities you flip on and off individually. It lives in the menu bar, runs quietly in the background, and can launch at login.

One app, several focused tools — instead of a separate menu-bar app for every little thing.

Utilities

Utility	What it does	Permission
Follow Focus	Raises and focuses the window under your pointer (focus-follows-mouse), with a configurable delay, hold-to-pause key, app exclusions, optional focus-first, and pointer-warp on app switch.	Accessibility
Drop Deck	A floating tray: drop files, text, links, or images onto it, switch windows or Spaces, then drag them back out anywhere. Drop several at once and they collect into one stack.	None
Keep Awake	Keeps your Mac from sleeping while on, with an optional auto-off timer and a "keep the display awake too" option.	None
Reroute It	Toggle /etc/hosts entries on and off — and add, edit, or remove them — without opening Terminal. Optionally install a one-time helper so edits stop asking for your password.	Admin (on write)
Glance Me	A quick webcam check before a call. The camera runs only while it's open.	Camera

Features

• Menu-bar hub — one icon; click for a popover listing every utility with on/off switches and inline quick-controls. Right-click for a simple menu.
• Full window — a sidebar + detail layout for each utility's complete settings, plus a General pane.
• Runs in the background — no Dock icon by default (a Dock icon appears only while a window is open). Closing a window hides Quiver to the menu bar; only Quit Quiver fully exits.
• Launch at login — optionally start hidden in the menu bar.
• Remembers everything — which utilities are on and each utility's settings persist across restarts; enabled utilities auto-start on launch.
• Single instance, About panel, verbose-logging toggle, and clear permission prompts with deep links to System Settings.

Download

The easiest way to get Quiver: grab the latest Quiver.dmg from the Releases page, open it, and drag Quiver into your Applications folder.

Quiver isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you launch it macOS will warn that it's from an unidentified developer. To allow it (a one-time step):

1. Double-click Quiver once, then dismiss the warning.
2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to the message about Quiver, then confirm with Open.

On older macOS you can instead Control-click Quiver → Open. If macOS instead says the app is "damaged", clear the download quarantine once with:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Quiver.app

Prefer to build it yourself? See below.

Build & install

Requires macOS 13+ and the Xcode command-line tools.

./install.sh        # build, install to /Applications/Quiver.app, and launch

Or step by step:

./build.sh          # build build/Quiver.app (set ARCHS="arm64 x86_64" for a universal build)
make run            # build and launch from ./build
make dmg            # package build/Quiver.dmg
make clean

On first launch, open the menu-bar popover and turn on the utilities you want:

• Follow Focus → click Grant Access and enable Quiver under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
• Reroute It → edits use the macOS admin prompt; optionally turn on Passwordless writes to approve once.
• Glance Me → allow camera access when prompted.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for how to build, the project layout, and how to add your own utility.

Adding a new utility

Quiver is built around a small UtilityModule base class (Sources/Quiver/UtilityModule.swift). To add a utility:

1. Subclass UtilityModule; override start()/stop() (for an on/off engine) or set isToggleable: false (for a "tool" you just open).
2. Override statusSummary, permission, makeQuickControls(), and makeSettingsView() as needed.
3. Register it in AppController.makeModules() (Sources/Quiver/AppController.swift).

The shell handles persistence, the menu bar, windows, launch-at-login, and error alerts for you.

Layout

Sources/Quiver/            Swift app shell (AppController, ModuleManager, UI, AppSettings, LoginItem)
Sources/Quiver/Modules/    one self-contained folder per utility (incl. the GPLv3 AutoRaise window-raise engine, ported to Swift, in AutoRaise/Engine/)
Sources/QuiverHelper/      Root-owned helper for passwordless /etc/hosts writes
App/                       Info.plist, entitlements
scripts/                   Icon generator, DMG packager

License & credits

Quiver's window-raise engine — which powers Follow Focus — is the AutoRaise engine by sbmpost, licensed under the GPLv3. As a combined work, Quiver is distributed under the GPLv3 — see LICENSE.md and CREDITS.md. If you distribute Quiver, you must comply with the GPLv3.