Alternatives
Are free MRR trackers for Mac worth it?
TL;DR
| Option | Price | What you give up |
|---|---|---|
| MRRDock | Free, MIT licensed | Keys on your laptop, revenue only |
| Orbl (base app) | Free | Revenue integrations need $39 Premium |
| Baremetrics free tier | Free to $180K ARR | Price steps up as you grow |
| Stripe Dashboard | Free | It is a browser tab |
| Notch Metrics | $9/mo or $49/yr | Nothing on this list, for a price |
Prices checked on 11 October 2026.
Is a free MRR tracker good enough?
Usually, yes, and that is worth saying plainly on a page published by somebody who sells one.
If you take money through a single Stripe account and the only thing you want is an MRR figure you can see without a tab, MRRDock is free, open source, and does exactly that. No trial, no upgrade prompt, no seat limit.
The question is not whether free works. It is which of three things you are quietly paying with instead.
What free costs you
Your key sits on the laptop. Every free Mac MRR tracker is local by design, which is their privacy story and also means a live provider key is on the machine you carry around. Restricted read-only keys reduce the damage a long way. They do not remove it.
One kind of number. Free trackers track revenue. Not your Search Console clicks, not your Shopify orders, not your open issues. If you want those too, you are running four tools or opening four tabs, which is the problem you started with.
Somebody's spare time. An open-source menu bar app is maintained because its author still cares. That is often for years, and sometimes it is not. MRRDock is signed, notarised and auto-updating, which is better than most, and it is still one person.
None of those make free the wrong choice. They are just the invoice.
1. MRRDock
The best free option, without much competition.
Free and MIT licensed, no paid tier. It reads Stripe, RevenueCat, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Dodo Payments and Gumroad, converts them into one display currency, and puts the total in the menu bar. It also takes a custom HTTPS endpoint, which is a neat way to keep the real key on a server you control and feed the app a JSON blob instead.
Keys live in the macOS Keychain. The app issues GET requests only. There is no account and no server.
Its MRR rules are documented, which matters more than it sounds: yearly divided by twelve, percentage coupons applied, fixed-amount coupons deliberately not applied, usage-based prices flagged rather than guessed. A tool that tells you what it could not price is more trustworthy than one that quietly returns a confident wrong number.
Price. Free, MIT licensed. Requires. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel.
2. Orbl's free tier
Orbl's base app is free with every built-in widget, and it puts information on your wallpaper rather than in a bar. The revenue integrations are behind Premium, which is $39 as a one-time purchase, listed as a launch price rising to $49.
So the free tier is a free desktop widget app, not a free revenue tracker. Worth being clear about, because the one-time price is genuinely the fairest thing about it and it is still a price.
Price. Free app. Premium $39 once for the revenue integrations.
3. The Baremetrics free tier
Free while it tracks up to $180K ARR, which covers a lot of businesses that think of themselves as too small for it.
You get the full subscription analytics, trial insights, email reports and segments. That is far more than any menu bar app, in exchange for your billing data living on their servers and a price that starts at $49 a month once you cross $360K ARR.
If you are under the threshold, this is the most capable free option on the page by a distance.
Price. Free to $180K ARR, then from $49/month.
4. The Stripe Dashboard
Free, authoritative, and already shows MRR and churn in Stripe Billing. The mobile app pings you on each payment.
Its only failing is the one this whole category exists for: it is a tab, and a tab is a decision every time.
Price. Free.
When paying is the cheaper decision
Three cases, honestly.
Your money arrives in more than two places. Running a free tracker for Stripe, opening RevenueCat for the apps and Shopify for the store is three habits. One tool that holds all of them is worth a subscription in recovered attention alone.
You want more than revenue. Visitors, search clicks, repository issues and subscriber counts are all numbers you check. A revenue tracker gets you one of them.
You do not want a key on your laptop. This is the one that is hard to fix for free, because the free model depends on being local.
That is where Notch Metrics sits: $9 a month or $49 a year, fourteen connectors with no per-integration charge, and keys that are encrypted on the server and never reach the Mac at all. The numbers live in the MacBook notch, so there is nothing to open.
If none of those three apply to you, use MRRDock. It is good, it is free, and recommending it costs us nothing we were owed.