Hexy: Hex.pm package stats, in your menu bar

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Hexy

Type your username once. Hexy tracks every package you own: daily downloads, weekly trends, version drops. No browser needed.

All your packages,
at a glance.

Click the menu bar icon. Every package you own is there, sorted by language, with today's numbers.

Auto-detected language

Gleam, Elixir, Erlang. Color-coded from package build_tools.

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Daily download counts

Updated every 30 minutes. No manual refresh.

7-day sparklines

Trend line next to every package name.

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New versions

When a package updates, the count refreshes with it.

Take it to
your home screen.

iOS widgets show your top packages on the home screen. Daily totals and a leaderboard of your best performers.

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Small widget

Total downloads for today, one big number.

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Medium widget

Top packages ranked by daily downloads.

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Rotating theme

Purple, teal or indigo gradient. Changes by weekday.

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Hexy included

The owl shows up in every widget.

+847 Hexy

+1.2K Hexy

No account.
No servers.

Hexy never touches your credentials. It calls the Hex.pm public API directly and syncs your package list through iCloud.

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No account

Your Hex.pm username is all it needs. No passwords, no OAuth.

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iCloud sync

Add a package on Mac, it shows up on iPhone.

Controlled refresh

Up to 3 times a day, at least 4 hours apart.

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Launch at login

Opt in once and it stays out of your way.

Built for

The BEAM community.

If you publish packages on Hex.pm in Gleam, Elixir or Erlang, this is the stats app for you.

Gleam Elixir Erlang

Download Hexy, free

macOS & iOS · Hex.pm public API · No account needed

The name

Short for Hex.pm, with a friendlier ending. The hexagon, the package manager's mark, folded into something that lives in a corner of your screen.