Is it
done yet?

Your Mac is grinding through a download, a build, a render, a training run. Walk away. Glance puts its progress on your iPhone Lock Screen. Live, encrypted, zero setup.

$ curl -fsSL https://zaid1287.github.io/Glance/install.sh | sh

macOS · Apple silicon · iPhone on the App Store →

From your Mac to your wrist, encrypted the whole way.

Mac

Auto-detects the task. No script, no webhook.

Encrypted LAN

ChaCha20-Poly1305 over MultipeerConnectivity.

iPhone & Watch

A Live Activity that fills, finishes, and buzzes.

Only task metadata ever leaves the Mac, never your files or output. It's sealed with a key only your two devices hold.

Built to disappear into your workflow.

It just notices.

Browser downloads, npm · pip · cargo · xcodebuild · docker · rsync, all detected automatically — the thing a send-a-webhook service can't do.

A real progress bar.

Wrap anything and watch it fill on your phone:

glance run --progress '([0-9]+)%' \ -- python train.py

Lock Screen · Dynamic Island · Watch Smart Stack.

Private by design

End-to-end encrypted, loopback by default, zero telemetry.

On your wrist

The same Live Activity in the Apple Watch Smart Stack. No extra app.

Menu-bar native

Lives quietly in the menu bar. One click copies your pairing key.

Get Glance

Mac

One line in Terminal. Installs the menu-bar agent and starts it at login.

$ curl -fsSL https://zaid1287.github.io/Glance/install.sh | sh

iPhone

The Live Activity, on your Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Apple Watch.

Download on the App Store

Glance does one job: the “is it done yet?” moment. Not remote desktop, not a server monitor — a fast, private glance at whatever your Mac is working on.