Know if the current setup is good enough.
Reachability, throughput, latency, jitter, Wi-Fi context, VPN state, battery, charging, and time-zone-aware place checks in one compact view.
Free native macOS app
A calm cockpit for work and life on the move.
Connection quality, power, weather, local project time tracking, and travel context in one menu bar dashboard that is easy to open, easy to trust, and easy to leave alone.
Free to use
Open source
Direct download
Apache-2.0
No subscription
Shipped: Local project time tracking
Quick allocation chips in the dashboard
Day, week, and month review views
Travel history still stays local
Built for remote workers, consultants, digital nomads, and traveling developers who want context without a bulky monitoring app.
Overview
One product, three kinds of clarity.
Nomad Dashboard now reads best as a balanced Mac utility: part work-readiness check, part lightweight local work log, part travel-aware context layer.
Capture work time without adopting a heavier stack.
Track awake work time locally on the Mac, assign it with quick project chips, and review day, week, and month summaries when you need to clean things up.
Keep weather, place, and movement closer at hand.
Weather, IP/location context, visited places, and optional travel modules stay nearby without turning the app into another full travel portal.
New emphasis
Local project time tracking is now part of the core story.
The recent `v0.6.0` to `v0.6.3` release cycle added and refined a dedicated local time-tracking workflow. That matters for the website because the app is no longer only “travel context plus weather.” It now helps wrap the workday too.
Pending unallocated time directly in the dashboard header
Compact quick-action project chips for recent or active work
Dedicated time-tracking window with day, week, and month views
Local storage, exact entry editing, and plain-text export
- Designed for consultants, freelancers, and agency operators who want less friction than a full PM or invoicing suite.
- Stays local to the Mac and can be disabled entirely.
- Works alongside the dashboard instead of replacing it with a separate “timesheet app” mentality.
Local time tracking
Day in motion
What it feels like across a real day.
Three concrete moments the site should now speak to: settling in, moving around, and wrapping up work locally.
Cafe seat or apartment desk.
Check connection stability, battery behavior, local weather, and whether the network still sees you from the place you expect.
Moving through a city or travel day.
Keep time zone, place context, forecast shifts, and optional travel-aware tools close at hand without disappearing into a stack of websites and system menus.
Wrap a client day locally.
Assign pending work from the dashboard, review the day or week, and export a clean month summary when you need a simple record of where the work went.
Travel context
Still built for changing places and changing conditions.
The travel story stays important. It is just no longer the only top-level story.
Public IP, city, country, and time-zone context help you sanity check where you appear from, while weather stays close enough to influence the next move before you leave the current spot.
- Current conditions, feels-like temperature, wind, and precipitation context.
- Expandable hourly and multi-day forecast detail.
- Approximate external IP location that can be disabled in Settings.
Travel alerts, nearby utilities, and surf conditions stay compact. They are there when the day gets more adventurous, not forced into every session.
- Travel advisory, weather alerts, and regional security context.
- Nearby fuel prices where supported, with map previews.
- Nearby emergency hospitals and one saved surf spot forecast.
Travel history
A local memory of where the year went.
Visited places and country-day summaries remain one of the most distinctive parts of Nomad Dashboard. They stay local to the Mac, can be reviewed by year and month, and give the product an independence-minded feel that fits the rest of the tool.
- Visited places saved locally on the Mac.
- Visited map window for visual place history.
- Yearly and monthly country-day summaries with plain-text export.
Trust and control
Open, native, local-first where it matters.
Keep the trust story practical: native macOS utility, direct download, local storage where it matters, and no overclaiming.
Built for macOS 14+, menu-bar-first, compact, and shaped like a Mac utility instead of a browser dashboard wrapped as an app.
- Stays near the top bar instead of becoming a full-time Dock resident.
- Useful for quick context checks, not a sprawling operations console.
Project time tracking, visited places, and country-day history stay local to the Mac. Optional location-aware features stay under user control.
- Project time tracking can be disabled entirely.
- External IP location can be turned off.
- Device location is only used when enabled.
Free to use, Apache-2.0 licensed, on GitHub, directly downloadable outside the Mac App Store, and provided as-is.
- GitHub stays visible as both trust signal and source code home.
- Signed public releases include built-in update support.
Android version in progress
Android is on the way.
A native Android companion is in progress for the same Nomad Dashboard workflow: dashboard context, travel signals, visited history, time tracking, and travel-aware utilities on phone.
Take the latest release with you.
Nomad Dashboard is free to download and use on macOS today. It is open source, directly installable, and shaped for a modern independent working life rather than a subscription funnel.
Free
Open source
Direct install
Apache-2.0
Provided as-is
Built around relaxed, capable, mobile work.
Nomad Dashboard fits people who want fewer tabs, less operational clutter, and a calmer relationship with the practical details of remote work and movement.
- Useful in cafes, apartments, trains, airports, hotels, and slower long-stay routines.
- Not chasing enterprise-monitoring language or generic productivity fluff.
- Still open development and public releases on GitHub.