PipePeek
The PipePeek app icon

Your Bitbucket Pipelines,
always in sight.

PipePeek lives in your macOS menu bar and quietly watches your Bitbucket Pipelines — so a single glance tells you what's passing, running, or broken. No tabs, no context-switching.

Get PipePeek for macOS See how it works

Universal build for Apple silicon & Intel · macOS 12+

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Connect once, choose what matters, and let PipePeek keep watch from the corner of your screen.

Connect to Bitbucket

Sign in securely with your Bitbucket account. PipePeek uses your access token to read Pipeline runs — nothing more.

Pick a workspace

Work across several Bitbucket workspaces? Select the one you care about and PipePeek scopes everything to it.

Choose repositories to watch

Tick just the repositories whose Pipeline runs you want to follow. Ignore the noise, keep the signal.

Set the polling interval

From every 2 seconds to every 5 minutes — dial in how fresh you need your status, and how light you want it on the API.

Runs per repository

Decide how many recent runs to show for each repo, so the popup stays exactly as detailed as you like.

Native macOS notifications

The moment a build passes or fails, PipePeek posts to Notification Center — so you never miss a red pipeline.

An animated menu-bar icon that tells the truth

The tray icon spins while pipelines are running and settles the instant they finish — a live, ambient read on your builds without opening anything.

Passed Running Failed
Screenshots

See it in action

A native menu-bar popup and settings panel that feel right at home on macOS — in light and dark.

Pipelines — Dark
PipePeek popup in dark mode listing recent Bitbucket Pipeline runs for the Trips Web and IaC repositories, with green pass and red fail status icons.
Pipelines — Light
PipePeek popup in light mode listing recent Bitbucket Pipeline runs with build numbers, branch names and refresh buttons.
Settings
PipePeek settings screen showing the Bitbucket connection, a 30-second polling interval, 5 runs per repository, and checkboxes to select workspaces and repositories.
Menu bar
The macOS menu bar showing the PipePeek status icon next to the clock.
Lives quietly beside your clock.
Loved by developers

What people say

Teams who stopped babysitting browser tabs and let PipePeek do the watching.

★★★★★
"I used to keep a browser tab pinned to Bitbucket all day. PipePeek killed that habit in an afternoon — a green dot in my menu bar is all I need."
Dana Reyes
Staff Engineer, Northwind
★★★★★
"The animated icon is weirdly satisfying. I know a build is running before I even switch windows."
Marco Bianchi
DevOps Lead, Trailhead Labs
★★★★★
"Set the polling to 15 seconds, picked our three noisy repos, done. It just sits there and tells me the truth."
Priya Nair
Engineering Manager, Cobalt
★★★★★
"Native notifications mean I catch failed deploys the second they happen instead of ten minutes later. Worth every cent."
Tom Fischer
Backend Developer, Meridian
★★★★★
"Finally a menu-bar app that respects my screen space and my attention. Lightweight, glanceable, gorgeous."
Aisha Khan
Frontend Engineer, Loop
Get PipePeek

Install in under a minute

PipePeek is distributed directly (not through the Mac App Store), so the first launch takes one extra click to get past macOS Gatekeeper.

Gatekeeper simply warns you because the download came from outside the App Store — this is expected. You only need to approve PipePeek once.

  1. Open from Finder

    Drag PipePeek into /Applications, then Control-click (right-click) it and choose Open → Open in the dialog.

  2. Or allow it in System Settings (macOS 15 Sequoia and later)

    Double-click to launch, dismiss the warning, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to "PipePeek was blocked", and click Open Anyway.

  3. Prefer the terminal?

    Remove the quarantine flag in one line:

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PipePeek.app