Command bar
The exact ⌘K window the app opens from your menu bar.
This is the actual command bar window from the product, with the same layout, meeting actions, and content the app shows when you press ⌘K.
Pree · v1.0 · for macOS
A quiet menu bar app that shows what's next, when to join, and how much time you have, without opening your calendar.
Lifetime price · No subscription · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
§ a short belief
Pree isn't a calendar.
It's a pre-call layer.
A quiet preview of what's next.
The countdown before the scramble.
The one-glance card before you're late.
Small software, quiet software,
in the thinnest part of your screen.
§ what it does
This is the actual command bar window from the product, with the same layout, meeting actions, and content the app shows when you press ⌘K.
This is the real pre-call window from the app: camera preview on top, countdown in the corner, and the same floating action bar with Join and Skip. Tap the buttons to see.
This one is based on the real detail screen in the popover: header, materials section, participant section, and open actions for each linked doc.
This mirrors the real Today screen: back button, title, quick actions, and per-row join pills depending on what is live now.
This mirrors the real meeting card: day summary, Today pill, title/meta tokens, materials count, Join, and keyboard hints at the bottom.
Stop fighting the form. Write the sentence you'd say out loud — Pree finds the title, the time, the recurrence, and the duration in it. Confirm with ⏎, the event is on your calendar.
A soft month-grid lives inside your menu bar. Hover any date — events slide in on the side, no full Calendar launch, no context lost. Click to jump.
hover the grid →
§ plus, all of this
"23 Apr · 3 meetings · 2 hours of focus." A single honest line, not a dashboard.
Compose what shows in the bar — next event, countdown, week, second timezone, day progress.
"Hey Siri, join my next meeting." App Intents cover Shortcuts — and through Shortcuts, Stream Deck or any macro tool you already use.
iCloud, Google, Exchange — anything Calendar.app already knows about. No new account, no new login.
Not just create. Move 1:1 to thu 3pm. Shorten standup to 15. Pree understands.
A five-second preview before you join — webcam, mic level, pick the right device. No surprises in the first frame.
Pick exactly which calendars Pree watches. Toggle family off for the work day, flip it back at home.
Flip one switch. Registered via ServiceManagement — no login-items hacks.
One chord — ⌥⌘Space by default — opens Pree anywhere. Rebind it to whatever your muscle memory already expects.
Press S on the alert and it slips away for five minutes, then quietly comes back. One calm step when you're not ready yet.
Adopts the new Tahoe materials where available; falls back cleanly on Sonoma and Sequoia.
Follow system, or pin Light or Dark when you're streaming or presenting.
§ compose meeting card
Toggle pills on or off. Drag to reorder. The popover above is exactly what lands on your screen before every meeting — nothing you don't ask for, everything you do.
↑ this is the meeting card in the menubar popover
active · click to remove, drag to reorder. Title always stays.
available · tap to add
Some values only appear when the event has the data.
§ rules I build by
Not marketing — the actual notes on the wall while making Pree.
"The pre-call card should already be there. You don't configure it. You just press a key."
"Fewer features than the big calendar apps. On purpose. The ones that stay earn their place by being touched ten times a day."
"The mic and camera preview is the whole reason for the pre-call card. Catch the wrong input before the first frame of the meeting, not after."
"What's not here matters most. No login. No onboarding. No newsletter. Install, grant calendar access, done."
"If I can type
move 1:1 to thu 3pmand it just happens, the rest is a bonus."
"It should run on any Mac that still runs the current macOS. Light on battery, quiet on CPU. The bar is simple: never the reason the fan spins up."
§ early access
Pree is polishing the last rough edges before launch. The first 100 people on the list lock in $9.99 forever — one payment, no subscription, yours for good.
macOS 13 Ventura or newer · Apple Silicon & Intel
Pree started as a weekend fix for my own scattered week. I shipped it because the only thing worse than missing a call is the apology afterwards.
If anything about the app feels off, write to me. You'll be talking to the one person who writes the code. That's the whole team.
— Andrew · maker of Pree
§ faq
No account, ever. Pree reads through EventKit — the same framework Calendar.app uses. If a calendar appears in Calendar (iCloud, Google, Exchange, and anything else Apple Calendar already knows about), Pree sees it automatically.
Download it, every feature on. No card, no email gate. Use it as long as you need to make up your mind — then buy a one-time license when it earns the spot in your menu bar.
No. Pree reads the local Calendar database and never transmits event content. The only network calls the app makes are anonymous update checks and license validation.
Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Whereby, Jitsi, Discord voice channels, and Slack huddles are detected by provider. Any other link opens in your default browser in one tap.
Yes — universal binary. Minimum macOS 13 Ventura. Most at home on macOS Tahoe with Liquid Glass, but runs well on Sonoma and Sequoia.
The license you buy today covers every v1.x update. Major new versions (v2, v3…) will be a paid upgrade at a reduced price for existing users — but only when there's a year of real new work in the box.
Write to hey@pulsebar.app. I'd rather people use Pree because they love it — if it's not for you, just say so.