WordBar - Mac OS Menubar Item

WordWatch is a lightweight Mac menu bar app that keeps a live running word count of your Microsoft Word documents — including files tucked away in subfolders. Instead of opening documents one by one, hunting through folders, or trying to keep track of multiple drafts in your head, WordWatch does the counting for you in the background and shows the total instantly from your menu bar.

It is built for writers, academics, editors, students, and anyone working across large collections of Word files. Whether you are managing a book, a thesis, a set of articles, or a folder full of evolving drafts, WordWatch gives you an immediate sense of progress at a glance. Point it at a folder, and it watches the whole tree beneath it, updating as documents change.

Simple, quiet, and always there, WordWatch turns word count from a chore into something effortless.