Glaze Installs

Exact Glaze Store install counts in a focused native macOS menu bar app.

Native SwiftUI · Local storage · Apple Silicon and Intel

What it does

Glaze Installs keeps the public install totals for every app you publish close at hand. Open the menu bar panel to see exact counts, refresh the catalog, find all apps from a developer, or jump directly to Glaze Store.

• Track an app from its public Glaze Store URL.
• Show each app with the same icon it uses in Glaze Store.
• Find a developer by username, profile URL, or any published app URL.
• Preview and add every public app from that developer in one step.
• Refresh automatically every 5, 15, or 30 minutes, every 1 or 3 hours, or manually.
• Start automatically when you sign in to your Mac.
• Open an app or developer profile, copy the URL or count, and remove an app from its right-click menu.
• Keep the tracked list and settings locally on the Mac.

Screens

Developer discovery	Refresh settings

Install

1. Download GlazeInstalls-v0.3.0.app.zip from the latest GitHub release.
2. Unzip it and move Glaze Installs to the Applications folder.
3. Launch it. The three-bar glyph appears in the macOS menu bar.
4. If macOS asks for confirmation on the first launch, right-click the app, choose Open, and confirm.

Glaze Installs requires macOS 14 or later. The release is a universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Use

Select the menu bar glyph, then choose the search icon. Enter any of:

@username
https://www.glaze.app/@username
https://www.glaze.app/app/APP_ID

Review the apps found and choose Add all. Use the gear icon to set the automatic refresh interval, or the circular arrow to refresh immediately. Right-click an app row, or use its ellipsis button, for store and copy actions. Settings also includes Launch at login, which uses the native macOS Login Items service.

Privacy

The app reads publicly available Glaze Store pages. The tracked app list and refresh preference are stored locally with macOS UserDefaults. There is no account, analytics service, or separate backend.

The number shown is the installs_count reported by Glaze. It should not be interpreted as active users or verified unique downloads.

Build

The Xcode project is generated with XcodeGen.

xcodegen generate
xcodebuild \
  -project GlazeInstalls.xcodeproj \
  -scheme GlazeInstalls \
  -configuration Release \
  -derivedDataPath build \
  build

Run the test suite:

xcodebuild \
  -project GlazeInstalls.xcodeproj \
  -scheme GlazeInstalls \
  -configuration Debug \
  -derivedDataPath build \
  test

Two editions

Glaze Installs is developed as two equally important products:

• Native macOS edition: this Swift and SwiftUI menu bar app, distributed through GitHub.
• Glaze Store edition: a separate Glaze-native build with the same core tracking, discovery, refresh, and app-action workflows.

Each edition follows its platform's native distribution and release lifecycle.

License

MIT