AC Slater app icon — a stylized white air-conditioner remote with a cool blue 72° display

AC Slater

A tiny Mac menubar app that drives your Sensibo-equipped air conditioner. On, off, heat, cool, fan, temperature — right from your menu bar.
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Free to try — just $6 to unlock it forever.

You have an air conditioner. You also have a Sensibo — the clever little gadget that bolts onto a regular AC and gives it an internet brain. The official Sensibo app is fine, but it is an app, on your phone, with a splash screen and animations and a network round-trip just to remember what mode you’re in. You don’t want a splash screen. You want to make the room one degree colder, and you want to do it from where your hands already are: the Mac you are already using.

AC Slater lives in your Mac’s menu bar. Click the little remote icon and a small panel drops down with everything that matters: power, mode, temperature, fan, swing, light. Twiddle the controls, the AC obeys. Close the panel, get on with your life.

It talks to your AC through Sensibo’s public API. So whatever Sensibo can do, AC Slater can do — without making you tap through a phone app to do it.

Free to try, $6 to unlock forever. Download it, paste in your Sensibo key, and take it for a spin. When you’re ready to keep it, a single $6 payment unlocks AC Slater for good — no subscription, no recurring anything.

Wait, why is the app called AC Slater? Because the app controls your AC, and because “AC Slater” was already a perfectly good name and nobody else was using it for menubar software. I hope it made you Screech with laughter. Or at least chuckle in Saved By The Bell amusement.
Bring your own (free) Sensibo API key

AC Slater talks straight to Sensibo — there is no AC Slater server in the middle. The first time you launch the app, paste in a free API key from your Sensibo account (home.sensibo.com/me/api), and that’s it. Your key stays on your Mac. I never see it. There is nothing for me to see.

AC Slater’s menubar panel — showing a Sensibo device called ‘Lex’s device’ at 69°F / 63% humidity, online, with toggles and steppers for Power, Mode (Cool), Temp (73°F), Fan (Auto), Swing, Horizontal Swing, and Light
The whole app, basically
Power, mode, temperature, fan, swing, light. Click. Done.
Stylized remote showing 72° with a snowflake — cool mode
Cool
Stylized remote with a blank display — AC off
Off
Stylized remote showing 72° with heat waves — heat mode
Heat
Lives in your menu bar
No app to switch to. No phone to unlock. The remote sits where you already work; one click and you’re adjusting the room.
No middleman
Your API key talks straight to Sensibo. I run no server, I store no data, I see no commands. The fewer moving parts, the better.
Everything Sensibo does
Power, mode, temperature, fan, vertical and horizontal swing, the light — whatever your AC supports through Sensibo, AC Slater exposes.