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cctop for Mac

Keyboard-first menubar app to monitor AI coding sessions and jump between them with a keystroke.

By st0012. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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cctop at a glance

Version
0.21.4
Released
13 September 2026
Download size
3.5 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Artificial Intelligence
Developer
st0012
GitHub stars
154

About cctop

A keyboard-first menubar app to monitor and jump between AI coding sessions — minimum setup required.

Screenshots

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How to install cctop on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for cctop and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.21.4 from st0012's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to cctop show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's files are on GitHub: cctop-macOS-arm64.dmg (3.5 MB), cctop-macOS-x86_64.dmg (3.5 MB).

What is new in cctop 0.21.4

## What changed

- Jump to the exact Warp pane when the session provides a focus link.
- Preserve escaped characters in Claude Code hook messages, including multiline prompts.
- Keep Cleanup scans from running at the same time and starting too many Git processes.

<details>
<summary>Installation</summary>

### Homebrew
```bash
brew tap st0012/cctop
brew install --cask cctop
```

### macOS (Apple Silicon)
```bash
curl -sL https://github.com/st0012/cctop/releases/download/v0.21.4/cctop-macOS-arm64.zip -o cctop.zip
unzip cctop.zip
mv cctop.app /Applications/
open /Applications/cctop.app
```

### macOS (Intel)
```bash
curl -sL https://github.com/st0012/cctop/releases/download/v0.21.4/cctop-macOS-x86_64.zip -o cctop.zip
unzip cctop.zip
mv cctop.app /Applications/
open /Applications/cctop.app
```

### From source
Requires Xcode 16+.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/st0012/cctop && cd cctop
./scripts/bundle-macos.sh
cp -R dist/cctop.app /Applications/
```

> This release is signed and notarized with Apple Developer ID.

</details>

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