Flick

A tiny macOS menu bar app and CLI for toggling services (VPN, Tailscale, anything with a connect/disconnect command) from a global hotkey or a single click.

The menu bar shows one colored dot for aggregate status. Press your hotkey, the service flips. That’s it.

Features

• Menu bar dot reflecting aggregate status — empty for all-disconnected, green for all-connected, yellow for some, dimmed while a toggle is in progress.

• Click the dot to open a service menu; Alt+click to quit.

• Global hotkeys — one to open the menu, one per service to toggle directly.

• CLI (flick) for scripts and the terminal.

• Generic — drives any service via the shell commands you define.

• No Accessibility permission — hotkeys use Carbon’s RegisterEventHotKey, which needs no permission and consumes the keystroke so it never leaks to the focused app.

• Zero dependencies beyond the macOS SDK.

How it works

Flick toggles anything you can express as three shell commands — check status, start, and stop. A service entry looks like this: