Your Chromecast remote, right in your Mac menu bar.

Castbar is a free, open-source macOS app that controls every Chromecast, Google Home and Nest speaker or TV on your Wi-Fi. See what's playing, pause, skip, seek and set each speaker's volume without picking up your phone.

Castbar menu bar popover showing now playing on a Chromecast and volume sliders for each speaker

Features

Now playing: artwork, title, seek bar, play/pause, ±30s, previous/next, stop
Every Chromecast, Google Home and Nest device with its own volume slider and mute
Speaker groups included; whatever is playing floats to the top
Click the title to jump to the Chrome tab that's casting
Light and dark mode, Space to play/pause, ←/→ to seek 10s

Install on Mac

brew tap itssarthak/castbar
brew trust itssarthak/castbar
brew install castbar && open -a Castbar

Or download the latest zip from GitHub Releases. Requires an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 11 or later.

Source code on GitHub · Product Hunt