Glanceable state of charge
Battery %, range, charging status and time-to-full. You choose what the menu bar shows.
A native macOS app · for your Volvo
Your Volvo.
In the menu bar.
Battery, range and charging status — always one glance away. It taps you on the shoulder when charging finishes, and stays out of the way the rest of the time.
Norra
Signs in with Volvo ID in your browser, keeps the session in the Keychain, and talks to nothing but Volvo's own API.
Refresh while idle5 min
Battery and range quietly update every five minutes.
Refresh while charging60 s
Once you plug in, Norra checks every minute so the numbers keep up.
Trackers and third parties0
Your data travels between your Mac and Volvo — nowhere else.
The real thing
No concept shots. This is the menu.
Every row is rendered by the app from the live Volvo API — battery, range, charging state, odometer and service data, topped by a studio image of your exact car. Click the plate or VIN to copy them.
Keep scrolling and the menu moves through the states it actually shows: charging, idle, in use, and the one you want to know about.
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Fri 21 Aug10.38
Hi, Simon
Volvo EX30 · 2025
PlateCX 41 927
VINLPSVSESEKML123456
Updated14:32
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Settings…⌘,
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Notifications
It tells you when it matters.
Norra compares each refresh with the last one, so a banner only shows up when something actually changed — plugged in, finished, or the charger threw an error. Nothing else pings you, and each of the three is its own switch in Settings.
Charging started
54% · full in 2h10m
now
Sent the moment the car starts charging.
Charging complete
100% · 560 km range
2h ago
When the battery is full — even if your Mac went to sleep in the meantime.
Charging problem
Charger reported an error at 43%
yesterday
If the charger reports a fault, so you don't wake up to a half-empty battery.
Why Norra
Small. Native. Yours.
Charging notifications
A quiet nudge when charging starts, completes, or the charger reports a fault. Nothing else, ever.
No password to store
You sign in on Volvo's own site; Norra only ever holds the token it gets back, in the macOS Keychain, and resumes with it.
Official API only
OAuth2/OIDC with PKCE against Volvo's own endpoints. No third-party servers, no analytics, no tracking.
Lock and unlock
Lock, unlock, honk and flash from the menu — if you grant those scopes at sign-in. Off by default, and unlock asks first.
Open source
MIT licensed, pure AppKit, no Electron, no SwiftUI, no background
services. make app and you have it.
The studio render of your exact configuration — paint, wheels and all —
fetched straight from Volvo and shown at the top of the menu.
Get started
Build it yourself.
Norra talks to Volvo's official API, which means credentials — and Volvo issues those per application, to you. So there is no download: you register once, build once, and it is yours.
- Register — create an application at
developer.volvocars.com
and set its redirect URI to
http://localhost:9631/callback. Free for non-commercial use. The API key is issued at once; the client ID follows Volvo's review. - Build — clone it and run one make target.
Needs macOS 13+ and the Xcode Command Line Tools (
git clone https://github.com/jonasjersborg/norra && cd norra && make appxcode-select --install). - Sign in — paste your key, enter the VIN, and approve Norra in the browser window Volvo opens. The VIN is in the Volvo Cars app under your car's details, and on the registration papers.
Questions
The usual four.
Will my Mac warn me when I open it?
The first launch wants a right-click → Open, because you built it yourself rather than downloading a notarized copy. After that it opens like anything else.
Where do I find my VIN?
In the Volvo Cars app, under your car's details. It's also on the registration papers, and stamped in the corner of the windscreen on the driver's side.
Where do my Volvo details go?
Nowhere but your own Mac. You sign in through your browser on Volvo's own site, so Norra never sees your password — only the token Volvo hands back, which lives in your keychain. There's no Norra account and nothing in between.
How do I update it?
git pull && make app. There is no in-app
updater — you built it, so you update it the same way.