Daily Sutra — Contemplative Verses in Your Menu Bar

I wanted something in the menu bar that wasn’t about productivity or notifications, just a quiet verse that changes once a day. So I built Daily Sutra, a macOS menu bar app that picks a contemplative verse each day from the Diamond Sutra (金剛般若波羅蜜經) and Heart Sutra (般若波羅蜜多心經).

The pick is deterministic by date: same verse all day, new one tomorrow, drawn from the combined pool of 32 Diamond Sutra sections plus the Heart Sutra. No Dock icon, no notifications. Click the menubar icon, read it, close it.

Features

• 中/EN toggle: classical Chinese line, modern English verse, plain-language explanation, and a short reflection
• Font scaling: A−/A+ from 0.85× to 1.8×, persisted
• Favourites: heart a verse to save it; open the list from the footer
• Launch at Login: SMAppService toggle, macOS 13+
• Frosted-glass design: modern rounded card, serif verse type, adaptive menubar icon

Built with SwiftUI + AppKit. No Xcode project, Swift Package Manager only. Grab a release from GitHub.