Comparisons
Best Stripe MRR trackers for Mac
TL;DR
| Tool | Price | Where it lives | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notch Metrics | $9/mo or $49/yr | The MacBook notch | Several sources, and numbers beyond revenue |
| 2 | MRRDock | Free, MIT licensed | Menu bar | One MRR total, open source, no cost |
| 3 | Orbl | Free app, Premium $39 once | Wallpaper | Revenue in context with the rest of your desktop |
| 4 | Baremetrics | Free to $180K ARR, then from $49/mo | Browser | Cohorts, LTV and churn analysis |
| 5 | Stripe Dashboard | Free | Browser and phone | The authoritative detail |
Prices checked on 11 October 2026, on each vendor's own pricing page.
This is about where your revenue number lives when you are not looking for it. All five read the same Stripe account. What differs is how much of your day it costs to see the figure, and what else it can tell you.
How do you choose an MRR tracker for Mac?
Three questions settle it.
How many places does your money arrive? One Stripe account is a solved problem and almost anything here works. Stripe plus RevenueCat plus a Shopify store is a different problem, and most tools answer only part of it.
Do you want revenue, or do you want your numbers? An MRR tracker shows MRR. If you also want visitors, search clicks and open issues in the same glance, that is a wider tool.
Where does your Stripe key end up? On your Mac, on somebody's server, or nowhere because the tool is read-only through a restricted key. All three are defensible. Knowing which one you chose is not optional.
1. Notch Metrics
The MacBook notch is a few hundred pixels of glass above the menu bar that every other Mac app pretends is not there. Notch Metrics puts your numbers in it. Collapsed, a thin strip. Hover the camera housing and it expands over whatever you were doing. Move away and it folds back.
There is no dock icon and nothing in the menu bar, which matters more than it sounds: the menu bar is already full, and macOS hides the newest items when it runs out of room.
Fourteen connectors, every one included on both plans with no per-integration charge. Stripe, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy, RevenueCat and Shopify for money. Plausible, PostHog, Amplitude and Google Analytics for traffic. Search Console, YouTube and GitHub for everything else.
Keys are the real difference. You connect on the web and the credential is encrypted with a key unique to that one connection, bound to your account and the provider. The server calls Stripe and hands your Mac a number, so the Mac app never holds a Stripe key at all. A lost laptop yields nothing.
And when a number has no connector, a coding agent writes a custom metric over MCP: one JavaScript module running on your own machine, secrets in the Keychain.
Price. $9 a month, or $49 a year. Seven-day trial, no card. Requires. Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.
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2. MRRDock
Free, MIT licensed, and genuinely good at the one thing it does. MRRDock aggregates MRR from Stripe, RevenueCat, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Dodo Payments and Gumroad into a single menu bar figure, converted into one currency.
It is the only tool here whose source you can read before pasting a Stripe key into it, which is a real argument. Keys live in the macOS Keychain, it issues only GET requests, and there is no server or account.
Its arithmetic is documented and conservative: yearly divided by twelve, percentage coupons applied, fixed-amount coupons deliberately not applied, usage-based prices flagged rather than guessed. That last choice is the right one and most tools do not make it.
Where Notch Metrics differs is scope. MRRDock answers "what is my MRR right now" and stops there, by design. It will not tell you your Search Console clicks or your Shopify orders, and its keys sit on the laptop rather than on a server.
Price. Free, MIT licensed, no paid tier. Requires. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel.
3. Orbl
Orbl puts revenue on your wallpaper rather than in the menu bar, alongside weather, focus and a GitHub contribution graph. It is a different idea and it suits people who want their numbers in context rather than as a figure in a strip.
It is local: read-only keys in the macOS Keychain, called directly from your Mac, no server and no account. Premium unlocks the revenue integrations and is a one-time purchase, which is a fair point to make about a category full of subscriptions.
The trade is visibility. A wallpaper is behind your windows, and most people with a Mac full of windows see their desktop rarely. The notch is in front of everything, always, which is the whole reason Notch Metrics uses it.
Price. Free app. Premium $39 as a one-time purchase, listed as a launch price rising to $49. Requires. macOS.
4. Baremetrics
The analytics tier rather than the glance tier. Baremetrics does cohorts, LTV, churn analysis, forecasting, failed-payment recovery and cancellation insights, which is a different job from showing you a number.
It is free while it tracks up to $180K ARR for you, which makes it a genuinely reasonable starting point. Above that it is priced on the revenue it tracks: Launch is $49 a month to $360K ARR, Growth starts at $69 a month to $3.6M ARR, and Scale starts at $409 a month above that. Payment Recovery and Cancellation Insights are $129 a month each on top, or 10% of recovered revenue for the first.
Your billing data lives on their servers, which is the price of the analysis. A tool that computes cohorts has to hold the history.
Use it for the quarterly question. Use something on this page for the daily one.
Price. Free to $180K ARR, then from $49/month, scaling with tracked revenue. Annual billing can take up to 35% off. Requires. A browser.
5. The Stripe Dashboard
Free, authoritative, and the thing every other tool on this page reads from. The mobile app sends a notification on each payment, which is the closest Stripe itself gets to a glance.
It is also a browser tab that takes several seconds to load, which is the entire reason this category exists. Keep it for the detail.
Price. Free. Requires. A browser, or the Stripe iOS or Android app.
Also in this category
Three more Mac apps come up regularly and their current prices were not verified on the check date above, so none are quoted here. MRRTracker is a focused single-number menu bar app. IndieBar packs several revenue metrics into one menu bar dropdown. CatBar is purpose-built for RevenueCat and is the natural pick if your revenue is app subscriptions rather than Stripe.
So which one
You ship on one platform and want to spend nothing. MRRDock. It is free, it is open source, and for a single Stripe account it does exactly the job.
You want revenue and everything else in one glance. Notch Metrics. The fourteen connectors are the point, and so is the fact that your Stripe key never reaches the laptop.
You want your desktop to feel calm and informative. Orbl, if you actually see your wallpaper.
You need cohorts and forecasting for a board meeting. Baremetrics, and keep a glance tool for the other twenty-nine days of the month.
The honest version is that most people want two: something free or cheap that answers the daily question without a tab, and something heavier for the quarterly one.