A cozy little cabin for your Colima containers. A native Docker dashboard for macOS and Linux, with a proper menu bar, live updates, and VM controls — all in a ~10 MB app.
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Native builds for macOS and Linux. Pick the format that matches your machine — all variants ship the same app.
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M1, M2, M3, M4 and newer.
Pre-2020 Macs, plus any Intel-based machine still in service.
Runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel. ~2× the file size.
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and derivatives. Install with `sudo apt install`.
Works on any modern distro. No install — just `chmod +x` and run.
Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE. Install with `sudo dnf install`.
On stock GNOME the menu bar tray icon requires the
AppIndicator support extension
— KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon and MATE show it out of the box. If Colima isn't
installed on your Linux box (most aren't — Docker runs natively there),
the app auto-detects your native daemon at
/var/run/docker.sock, no setup
required. The Containers, Images and Volumes views work straight away.
Should take less than a minute if you already have Docker set up.
First time installing Docker on your machine?
The full install guide walks through Homebrew, Colima, the app, and common errors at each step — for both macOS and Linux.
brew install colima docker, then colima start.
Pick the right one for your Mac above. Open the DMG and drag Colima Stugan into Applications.
Open the app, dismiss the warning, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Older macOS: right-click → Open.
MDM-managed machines sometimes block both. Strip the quarantine flag: xattr -cr /Applications/Colima\ Stugan.app.
Event-sourced, log-streaming, lifecycle-aware. Everything that should just work, does.
The UI subscribes to Docker's event stream — start a container from the CLI and it shows up here within a second. No polling, no stale views.
Start, stop, and restart Colima from the menu bar without opening the main window. The icon updates to reflect VM state.
Adjust CPU, memory, and disk allocation. Reset the VM when you need a fresh slate. Status visible at a glance.
Tail logs in a side drawer, with proper backpressure and cancellation when you close the view. No spinning sockets in the background.
Built with Tauri — real window chrome, native menu bar on macOS, AppIndicator tray on Linux. Not a wrapped web app, not 200 MB of Chromium.
The whole thing weighs in around 10 MB. Cold launches in under a second. Memory footprint stays out of your way.