Scouter is an open-source macOS menu bar app designed to help you stay on top of your FreeScout mailbox. Written entirely in Swift, Scouter provides a convenient way to monitor new messages and interact with your mailbox right from your menu bar.
- Monitoring: Select a FreeScout mailbox for Scouter to continually check for new messages.
- Overview: Clicking the scouter icon shows the latest messages in each mailbox folder.
- Conversation Previews: Hovering over a message shows a preview of the message contents
- Actions: Click on any message to open it in your default web browser.
- Updates: Scouter implements Sparkle for automatic update fetching and installing.
- macOS 14.0 (Sonoma)
- FreeScout instance with the API & Webhooks Module.
- More information on API & Webhooks can be found here.
- Latest binary can be found in the releases section on GitHub.
- Once installed, application automatically check for updates.
Scouter was built on Xcode 16 with Swift 5. It has no dependencies, so you should be able to just clone and run.
- Add your FreeScout instance URL and API in Scouter Preferences.
- Click 'Get Mailboxes'.
- Select the mailbox you would like to monitor and the interval to check for new conversations.
- Uncheck any folders you wish to ignore (optional).
Contributions are welcome, feel free to submit issues or pull requests to help improve Scouter.
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