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🚀 Version 1.1 Available • Glide Notes & Custom Touch Bar

GlideBar

Customizable Floating Touch Bar, Rich Sticky Notes & Predictive Typing for macOS

Bring the interactive MacBook Touch Bar experience, fully customizable control strips, floating rich-text sticky notes, and iOS-style predictive typing to any Mac. Featuring dynamic drag-and-drop layout customization, Glide Notes with rich-text formatting, real-time keystroke suggestions, multi-resolution mouse resizing, live YouTube & Spotify scrubbers, and Apple Liquid Glass aesthetics.

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📝 Glide Notes
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B I U S A+ A- • List 🎨 Colors

✨ Welcome to Glide Notes in v1.1!

• Floating sticky notepad anchored to GlideBar or draggable anywhere on macOS.

• Full rich-text styling: Bold, Italic, Underline, and custom font scaling.

• Collapse smoothly into your Touch Bar or export cleanly as a .txt file.

📝 Glide Notes
✨ Next: you ⌃1 you so much ⌃2 god ⌃3
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💡 Hover Tooltip: [ 📝 ] Toggle Glide Notes • [ ⌃1 - ⌃3 ] Quick Word Selection

New in Version 1.1 & Core Capabilities

A powerhouse floating companion engineered purely for Mac productivity.

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1. Glide Notes: Floating Sticky Notepad & Rich-Text Typography

NEW in v1.1

A versatile, floating sticky note companion anchored to your GlideBar with full rich-text styling.

  • Anchored & Freely Draggable: Opens directly attached to GlideBar and moves seamlessly when you drag the bar. Tap the top header to detach and position notes anywhere on your Mac screen.
  • Full Rich-Text Formatting: Format text effortlessly with Bold (⌘B), Italic (⌘I), Underline (⌘U), Strikethrough, Font family selection, Font scaling (⌘+ / ⌘-), Color palettes, and Bulleted lists.
  • Fluid Collapsing Animation: Tap the minimize button to watch your note fold smoothly into the GlideBar icon with an authentic collapse animation.
  • Safe Text Export: Clearing a note prompts you to save it as a local .txt file, ensuring you never accidentally lose notes or drafted thoughts.
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2. MacBook Touch Bar Customization Palette

NEW in v1.1

Personalize your Touch Bar layout exactly like the hardware MacBook Touch Bar.

  • Drag, Reorder & Remove: Add favorite controls, remove unused buttons, and reorder items to match your personal workflow.
  • Comprehensive Control Palette: Choose from Productivity (Glide Notes, Text Formatting, QuickType), Media & Audio (Play/Pause, Music & Video scrubber, Volume), System Controls (Brightness, Screenshot, Lock Screen, Launchpad, Mission Control), and Layout Spacers.
  • One-Click Factory Reset: Instantly revert back to the recommended default control strip with a single tap.
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3. Interactive Hover Hints & Keyboard Shortcuts

NEW in v1.1

Never guess what a button does—floating hints appear instantly as your cursor glides across controls.

  • Instant Visual Badges: Hovering over any icon surfaces a glass badge showing the feature title and associated keyboard shortcuts.
  • Zero Learning Curve: Discover built-in quick keys (like ⌃1-⌃3 for word selection, ⌘B for bold, and screenshot shortcuts) on the fly.
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4. Real-Time Predictive Typing & Autocomplete

Live spelling suggestions directly in the Touch Bar as you type on your physical keyboard.

  • Zero-Latency Interception: Instant hardware keycode detection works seamlessly across Safari, Notes, Stickies, Word, Pages, and Slack.
  • Native Spell Checking: Deep integration with macOS NSSpellChecker for autocorrect guesses and dictionary completions.
  • Isolated Shortcut Selection: Click suggestions or press ⌃1, ⌃2, ⌃3 with complete hardware modifier isolation, guaranteeing zero key collisions or accidental word deletes.
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5. Next-Word Predictions (Mobile QuickType Style)

Fluid sentence drafting inspired by iOS and mobile predictive keyboards.

  • Contextual Bigram Engine: Automatically suggests the top 3 most likely next words as soon as you complete a word with Space.
  • Fluid Sentence Chaining: Selecting a next-word prediction types it instantly and predicts the subsequent word, allowing rapid one-touch writing and reducing physical keyboard fatigue by up to 70%.
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6. Dynamic Screen Resolution & Tactile Mouse Dragging

Responsive scaling for every monitor from 1080p to 4K Retina.

  • Automatic Proportional Scaling: Clamps perfectly to screen bounds without clipping on low-res screens or shrinking on ultra-wide 4K displays.
  • Interactive Mouse Drag Handles: Hover over the left or right edges to reveal resize handles and manually adjust width to your exact preference.
  • Ergonomic Cursors: Responsive open-hand and closed-fist grab cursors provide tactile feedback whenever you reposition GlideBar or Glide Notes.
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7. Safari & Universal Media Timeline Scrubber

Precise playback control for YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify.

  • Interactive Seek Bar: Drag or click to scrub backward and forward through videos and audio tracks in real time.
  • Visual Bookmarks: Quick-launch Apple, iCloud, Google, YouTube, and favorite websites with one tap.
  • Global Transport Controls: Instant Play/Pause, Next Track, and Previous Track.
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8. Apple Liquid Glass UI & Custom Theming

State-of-the-art aesthetics tailored for macOS Sequoia and Sonoma.

  • 10 Curated Themes: Liquid Frost, Midnight Dark, Obsidian Black, Space Gray, Emerald Glass, and more.
  • Translucency & Blur Controls: Adjust frosted glass blur materials, glass opacity, and specular rim reflections.
  • Custom Icon Colors: Pick tailored text and icon hues for perfect contrast against dark or light wallpapers.
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9. Collapsible Dynamic App Context

Adapts automatically to the active application with collapsible controls.

  • Finder & Formatting: Instant view switchers for Finder, text styles (Bold, Italic, Lists) for Notes/Pages, and IDE commands.
  • One-Click Menu Collapse: Click the collapse toggle next to the app badge anytime to hide menus for a clean minimal bar.
  • Dedicated Close Button: One-tap quit button to dismiss GlideBar instantly.
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10. 100% On-Device Privacy & Ergonomic Support

Zero cloud servers. 100% offline security and direct support.

  • No Cloud Servers: Operates completely offline with zero external network transmission.
  • Zero Telemetry: Pure assistive UI with zero keystroke logging or internet tracking.
  • Direct In-App Support: Tap the mail icon in the About window to email us directly at devasyainnovations@gmail.com with feedback or feature requests.

Engineered with Swift & SwiftUI

GlideBar is crafted purely in Swift using native SwiftUI and AppKit frameworks. It runs as a lightweight floating panel with minimal battery impact, hardware-accelerated animations, sandboxed macOS security, and zero telemetry overhead.

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 12, 2026

1. Information Collection & Processing

GlideBar does not collect, record, transmit, or sell any personal information, device data, or typing history. Everything is calculated and rendered purely in local volatile memory on your Mac.

2. System Permissions

GlideBar requests macOS Accessibility and Apple Events automation permissions solely to detect the frontmost active application title, display its native menu actions, and control media playback (Safari, Apple Music, Spotify). No keystrokes are recorded or transmitted.

3. Contact & Support

For support, feature requests, or inquiries, contact us directly at devasyainnovations@gmail.com.