The best MRR tracker for Mac, honestly compared

The best MRR tracker for Mac isn't one app — it's the one that puts your revenue where you'll actually look at it. If you're an indie hacker watching Stripe like a hawk, there's a healthy field of menu-bar trackers to choose from, and several are genuinely good. Below is an honest roundup of the popular options, then where Orbl fits for people who'd rather see their metrics on a calm wallpaper for a one-time price.

The menu-bar revenue trackers worth knowing

These apps all live in the menu bar and focus on surfacing your revenue from Stripe and similar sources. They're lightweight and dedicated:

• MRRTracker — connects Stripe and shows your MRR and growth in the menu bar. Clean and focused on the core revenue number.
• IndieBar — a menu-bar tracker aimed at indie hackers, pulling in revenue metrics for a quick glance.
• MyRevenue — surfaces revenue from your sales sources in the menu bar.
• TrustBar — a compact menu-bar revenue display for makers.
• CatBar — another menu-bar option that keeps your metrics one click away.

All of these do the same essential job well: a tiny, always-running app that shows revenue when you click it. The honest caveats are that some are subscriptions, the number is hidden until you open the menu, and they're revenue-only — they don't put data on your desktop or cover a broader set of widgets.

Where Orbl fits

Orbl is the pick if you'd rather your MRR be ambient than buried in a menu. It turns your wallpaper into a revenue dashboard: connect Stripe and your MRR sits on the desktop behind your windows, alongside your clock, weather, focus, and Mac vitals. It's a whole calm dashboard, not just a revenue strip.

With Premium, Orbl also reads ChartMogul, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, Polar, Dodo, and TrustMRR, plus developer sources like GitHub — so your launch view is one screen, not five menu-bar icons.

	Menu-bar MRR trackers	Orbl
Price model	Free or paid; varies	Free app + one-time Premium
Subscription	Some are subscriptions	None, ever
Where it lives	Menu bar (click to see)	Live wallpaper, always in view
Sources	Stripe / subscriptions	Stripe + ChartMogul, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, Polar, more
Beyond revenue	Revenue-only	Revenue + weather, focus, vitals, dev stats
Privacy / local	Varies by app	100% local — keys in Keychain, no server
Setup effort	Connect, lives in menu bar	Connect, lands on your wallpaper

How to choose

If you want the simplest possible revenue-only app in your menu bar, one of the trackers above is a fine, focused choice — and we'd point you to whichever fits your sources and budget. There's no shame in a tiny dedicated tool.

If you want your revenue to be something you see rather than click for, want it sitting next to the rest of your day, and care about keeping it private, Orbl is the better fit. Everything stays 100% local: read-only API keys live in your macOS Keychain and are called directly from your Mac — no account, no server, no analytics. It idles near 0% CPU, uses under 100 MB of memory, and runs at an adaptive 8–12fps.

Pricing is the clincher for many makers: Orbl Premium is a one-time, lifetime purchase — not a monthly fee for watching your own numbers — unlocked once in Settings → License Key.

The short answer

For a pure menu-bar number, any of the trackers above can be the best MRR tracker for Mac for you. For a calm, ambient revenue dashboard that lives on your wallpaper and pairs with the rest of your day — paid for once — try Orbl.

Want to dig deeper? Read the best MRR menu-bar apps roundup, see the revenue dashboard, check pricing, and download the free app.