A small desktop app for Hark on Windows, macOS and Linux. It waits in your tray, tells you when Hark replies, and opens from anywhere with one shortcut.
Free, open source and unofficial. Not affiliated with Hark.
Press Ctrl Shift H (Cmd Shift H on a Mac) and a small box opens over whatever you are doing.
Type, press Enter, and Hark opens with your question drafted. It never sends for you.
Closing the window hides Hark instead of quitting, so it is back in a blink. An orange dot shows when something is unread.
On macOS it lives in the menu bar. On Linux it quits when you close it, unless you turn on the tray in settings.
You get a notification when Hark replies, or when a Handoff plan you were watching finishes. Your own messages never notify.
Plan progress shows on the taskbar icon, like a download. Three of eight steps reads as 38%.
The app opens the real hark.com. You sign in on Hark's own pages, so the app never handles your password.
The page can send the app a short list of small events. The app checks every one, and links outside Hark open in your own browser.
Measured on Windows 11 with a signed-in account. Most of the memory is the system web view, as it would be in a browser tab, because no second browser is bundled.
Windows is the tested platform. The macOS and Linux builds are new and have not yet been run by the maintainer, so expect rough edges and please tell us what you find.
Tested on Windows 11; Windows 10 should work too. The installer is for your account only and needs no admin rights. Windows may warn that the app is unrecognised: choose More info, then Run anyway.
macOS 11 or newer, Apple silicon and Intel. The app is not notarised: open it with a right click, then Open, the first time.
deb and rpm packages (about 3 MB) use your system's WebKitGTK 4.1; the AppImage (about 78 MB) carries its own. A tray icon needs AppIndicator support, which GNOME gets from an extension.
No. It is an independent open source project and is not affiliated with Hark. It opens the real hark.com in its own window and adds desktop features around it. Hark and the Hark logo belong to their owners.
Only what a browser tab on hark.com can see. You sign in on Hark's own pages, so the app never handles your password. The Hark page can send the app a few small events, such as "show a notification", and the app checks each one before acting. It cannot read your files or run commands.
The builds are not code-signed, and signing costs money every year. Windows shows a SmartScreen notice: choose More info, then Run anyway. On macOS, open the app with a right click and choose Open. You can also build it yourself from the source.
Almost all of that is the web view that draws hark.com, which is the same engine your browser uses. The app itself is about 10 MB. Hark animates its background, so the page is never fully idle while the window is visible. When Hark is hidden in the tray, it settles down.
Not yet. Download a new release to update. Hark's own features update by themselves, because the app loads the live site.
On Windows, use Settings, Apps, Installed apps. On macOS, drag the app to the Bin. On Linux, remove the package or delete the AppImage.