BarCuts is a macOS menu bar app that surfaces your relevant Shortcuts workflows when you need them.
It's a contextual workflows launcher. "Tag" workflows to an application, and when that app is in the foreground, BarCuts will show its tagged workflows in a menu, ready for you to access.
It's a surprisingly useful alternative to the sub-par macOS-native Shortcuts menu bar.
Features
Same as built-in Shortcuts menu bar (on paper):
- Lets you access and launch your workflows
What it does better than the built-in Shortcuts menu bar:
- Contextual: Shows only the workflows that are relevant to the currently active app
- No need for naming workarounds and prefixing workflows titles ("namespacing") because the menu is context-sensitive
- Can also show extra-important always-available workflows
- The menu is keyboard-accessible
- Support submenus
- Click workflow to run, Shift-Click to open in editor
- Doesn't make your eyes bleed.
Supported platforms
macOS 14+.
How it does work
- You add a "Tagger" action to your workflow in the Shortcuts editor, and tell the action which app this workflow is relevant to.
- When that app is active (= in the foreground), the BarCuts menu bar will show this workflow in its menu, where you can start it.
Short explainer animation
Who is this app for?
Anyone who works with app-related Shortcuts workflows on macOS.
Pricing & Licensing
14 days trial period, then perpetual upgrade licensing:
Any new version of the purchased app released within 12 months of purchase will be available to the customer, as part of the Upgrade Plan. When the Upgrade Plan expires, the license will continue to work with the latest version of the app that the customer received. They can renew their Upgrade Plan at any time to resume getting new updates for another 12 months.
There is NO subscription.
Introductory pricing is 12€ for personal use, 24€ for commercial use.
Developer & Press Contact
Carlo Zottmann, press@actions.work, from Flensburg, Germany.
Please note: It's "Carlo", not "Carlos", and it's "Zottmann", not "Zottman". 😉
(My name is misspelled often enough to make a note about it, yes.)