GrokTray

Your favorite AI, always one click away in your system tray.

GrokTray is a lightweight Linux tray application that embeds the Grok web interface (from x.ai) directly into a WebKitGTK-powered web view. No middleman, no extra layers, no funny business—just Grok living quietly in your tray, ready when you are.

Why GrokTray?

• Instant access to Grok without opening a browser tab every time
• Lives in your system tray (most desktop environments supported)
• Extremely low overhead — the binary is tiny (~300 KB standalone)
• Zero ToS violation risk — it simply loads the official web interface in a web view (no scraping, no API abuse)
• Optional AppImage with a hand-optimized, patched WebKitGTK 2.50.4 for noticeably snappier performance

Features (so far)

• Embedded WebKitGTK web view loading https://grok.com
• System tray icon (using the excellent Grok icon from LobeHub)
• Minimal resource usage
• AppImage version includes a custom-compiled WebKitGTK tuned for speed

Installation / Running

Option 1: AppImage (recommended – batteries included)

Download the latest GrokTray-x86_64.AppImage from the Releases page.

# Make it executable (only needed once)
chmod +x GrokTray*.AppImage

# Run it
./GrokTray*.AppImage

Option 2: Binary (needs gtk 3 and webkitgtk-4.1)

Download binary from groktray Releases page.

# Make it executable (only needed once)
chmod +x groktray

# Run it
./groktray

Credits & Thanks

• LobeHub for the beautiful Grok icon used in the tray → https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-icons (see LICENSE.md for full license and attribution)

• PureBasic – the language that made this fun and fast to prototype

• WebKitGTK – the engine that powers the magic

• The xAI team for making Grok so damn useful

License

This project is licensed under the MIT – see LICENSE file.

The tray icon is licensed under the terms provided by LobeHub (see their repo).