It just notices.
Browser downloads, npm · pip · cargo · xcodebuild · docker · rsync, all detected automatically — the thing a send-a-webhook service can't do.
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 →
Final_Render.mov
Done
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.
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 StoreGlance 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.