CHANGELOG

What's new

keybars Pro 1.0 · coming

  • Notify, builds, coding agents, System, Focus, Typing and Ambient modes
  • The marketplace, in the app and on keybars.app, with publishing from the app and the command line
  • keybars-pro, a command line for everything the app does

keybars Pro 0.2.0 · 21 October 2026

  • Downloads for Windows and macOS (Apple silicon and Intel) beside Linux
  • A tray menu to switch mode, scene and theme, or turn the lights off for a while
  • Weather scenes for Ambient, from Open-Meteo
  • Make your own Ambient scene frame by frame, change a scene's colours, and share them
  • Seven new Ambient scenes, and 24 more looks and Ambient items in the marketplace
  • The keyboard crossfades when a scene or mode changes
  • Notify keeps a history of the last 100 events, with missed ones marked
  • The timer moves to a Focus and timers page
  • Report a problem or suggest a feature from the app
  • The sidebar folds to icons; App settings sit in two columns on a wide window
  • Fixes for flicker when the keyboard source changes, and for settings edited in two places at once

keybars 0.5.1 · 21 October 2026

  • A missing or crashed cava is reported at once instead of hanging, and run exits with its error
  • Keymapp and QMK requests time out, so a stalled one can't hang keybars
  • Out-of-range -fps, -smooth and -gain are refused; stop only signals keybars itself

keybars 0.5.0 · 19 October 2026

  • Key maps for the Planck EZ and 21 popular QMK keyboards, generated from QMK's own definitions
  • OpenRGB boards without a layout fall back to those maps
  • Licence notices list the same way on every machine

keybars 0.4.0 · 15 October 2026

  • Skips keybars Pro's settings in a shared config file
  • The green bars logo

keybars 0.3.0 · 14 October 2026

  • OpenRGB backend for keyboards other than ZSA's
  • Follows the keyboard when OpenRGB's device list changes
  • Ships third-party licence notices

keybars 0.2.0 · 13 October 2026

  • Releases with GoReleaser, and a Homebrew formula in the tap
  • Start and stop with a config file; a version command
  • Name cava's capture device with -source
  • Generate keyboard maps from QMK definitions

keybars 0.1.0 · 11 October 2026

  • Music as bars on a ZSA keyboard, through cava and Keymapp
  • Green bars with peak dots, and -gain to reach higher