Anneal
- Client
- Our product
- Year
- 2026
- Role / Services
- Design & development
A macOS menu bar app that tells you, without being asked, whether it's safe to upgrade a dependency — and whether what's already in your lockfile is still trustworthy.
- Signals checked on every package
- 4
- Tests, with 2,292 assertions
- 236
- Third-party dependencies
- 0
- Services it talks to — nowhere else
- 3
Overview
Anneal watches every project on your Mac and answers one question from the menu bar, continuously: is it safe to upgrade this right now — and is what I already have still trustworthy?
Problem
The cooldowns npm, pnpm, Renovate and Dependabot shipped in 2026 are gates at install time: they decide what may enter, then stop looking. Nothing watches what's already sitting in your lockfile.
Our decisions
Every upgrade gets a verdict — cleared, security fix, waiting on cooldown, needs a look — instead of a wall of data. Anneal remembers every version it has seen, so it can tell you when a package degrades after you installed it, and in which of your projects it lives. It only reads: it never modifies a file or runs a command, and the upgrade command goes to your clipboard.
What shipped
- Version 2.0: a native macOS app in Swift and SwiftUI, with no third-party code.
- 236 tests and 2,292 assertions; a 43-check preflight gates every release.
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