Looks and motion
Four settings on Settings → Appearance decide how the bar looks and moves: its glass, its border, its cursor, and whether anything animates.
Open them with ⌘, in the bar and pick Appearance, or type glass, look or reduce motion in the bar to jump to one. Every change shows at once.
Glass
The bar is one sheet of glass over whatever is behind it. Glass picks which kind:
| Option | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Liquid | The default. Clear Liquid Glass, like macOS's own Search or Ask bar: darker behind the search field and clearer below, with white symbols. Marked experimental. |
| Frosted | An evenly tinted, frosted glass. Symbols follow your Mac's text color. |
The footer pills, the ⌘K menu and cards in the bar are made of the same kind of glass, so they match whichever you pick.
Look: the border
Look shows a small live picture of each option; the one you're using is outlined. Click one, or press ↵ on the row to switch.
- No Border (the default): plain black-and-white glass.
- Colorful Border: a rainbow glow runs round the bar's edge. It makes one turn as the bar opens and keeps running while you type, then fades. It also runs round an agent's card when an agent needs you (see Agents), and the dictation pill glows in color with your voice.
Glowing cursor
With Glowing cursor on (the default), the search field's cursor is a white bar with a soft glow that shifts from cool to warm, like macOS's Search or Ask bar. Turn it off for a plain white cursor.
How the bar moves
Motion in Saiki is quick and never in your way:
- The bar fades in while growing slightly with a short spring, and fades out quickly when it closes.
- When a view needs more room, like Settings or the Agents hub's Detailed view, the bar grows smoothly. Its top edge stays where it is, so the search field never moves under your eyes.
- The highlight glides from row to row as you move the selection, and lists scroll only as far as needed to keep the selected row in view.
- The ⌘K pill grows into the Actions menu and shrinks back.
- When a list continues below, its rows fade as they pass under the footer pills.
Reduce motion
Turn on Reduce motion and nothing animates: the bar appears, leaves and changes size at once, the cursor doesn't blink, and the colorful border and the dictation glow hold still.
It's also on by itself whenever macOS's own Reduce Motion is on (System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Reduce motion).
Light and dark
The bar follows your Mac's light or dark appearance; there's no separate setting for it.