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Sway for Mac

Lightweight menu bar app that reminds you to take regular breaks.

By gusalvestavo. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Sway at a glance

Version
1.5
Released
1 November 2026
Download size
2.9 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Productivity
Developer
gusalvestavo
GitHub stars
3

About Sway

A small macOS menu bar app that reminds you to take breaks.

Screenshots

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How to install Sway on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Sway and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.5 from gusalvestavo'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 Sway show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Sway-1.5.zip (2.9 MB).

What is new in Sway 1.5

## What's new

- **A softer typeface.** Sway's larger text is now set in [Fraunces](https://github.com/undercasetype/Fraunces), a soft, rounded serif. This covers the break screen's title, timer and message, the countdown in the menu, the good-morning greeting, the welcome headings and the name in Settings. Smaller text keeps the system font, and timers use equal-width digits so the numbers don't jump as they tick.

## Install

1. Download **Sway-1.5.zip** below and unzip it.
2. Move **Sway.app** to your **Applications** folder (replace the old one if you're updating).
3. Open it. Sway lives in the menu bar, not the Dock.

Requires macOS 13 or later. Universal: runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

### First launch

Sway isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time. To allow it:

- Open **System Settings → Privacy & Security**, scroll to the message about Sway and click **Open Anyway**, or
- run this once in Terminal:

 ```sh
 xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Sway.app
 ```

Fraunces is licensed under the SIL Open Font License; the license ships inside the app.

**SHA-256** of `Sway-1.5.zip`: `7591053f0883ef91335fbca6b5779bbfd3380a4254039458648b9a598c009336`

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