Roar – A macOS CLI tool for notifications

Name: Roar – A macOS CLI tool for notifications
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Author: dalemyers

by dalemyers·May 28, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●●SolidSolve My ProblemCozy

--wait mode with action buttons beats osascript for interactive scripting workflows.

Strengths

•--wait blocking mode prints user's button choice back to the shell for scripting logic.
•Recurring notifications with cron-style scheduling built into the CLI itself.
•Full ReadTheDocs documentation with exhaustive --help for every subcommand.

Weaknesses

•macOS-only limits audience compared to cross-platform notification tools.
•terminal-notifier exists, though Roar's interaction model is more feature-rich.

Post Description

I've got so many things running in the background with LLMs that keeping track of what they are doing is a bit of a nightmare. I tend to use Python for scripting, and getting it to show notifications on a mac usually involved going through osascript, but the support there was minimal. I made Roar to make dealing with notifications much easier.