A cozy little cabin for your Colima containers. Native macOS dashboard for Docker, 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),
set DOCKER_HOST=unix:///var/run/docker.sock
before launching the app and the Containers, Images and Volumes views
will work against your native Docker daemon.
Should take less than a minute, including talking past Gatekeeper.
The app talks to Docker through Colima's local socket. If you haven't already: brew install colima docker, then colima start.
Pick the right one for your Mac above. Open the DMG and drag Colima Stugan into Applications.
The app is not code-signed yet, so macOS will refuse to open it the first time. On macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later: try to open it, click Done on the warning, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway. On older macOS: right-click the app → Open, which reveals a bypass button.
Some MDM-managed machines block both. Strip the quarantine flag from a terminal: xattr -cr /Applications/Colima\ Stugan.app, then open normally.
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 — actual macOS window chrome, real menu bar, traffic lights. Not Electron, not a wrapped web app.
The whole thing weighs in around 10 MB. Cold launches in under a second. Memory footprint stays out of your way.