ALal_borland·Apr 3, 2026
Tame the clutter, by using another menubar app to hide the overflow.
Examples:
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
https://www.macbartender.com/
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dwarvesf / hidden
hidden
An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
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An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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23 sourcesI’ve been using this for years. It’s simple and works perfectly: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In Tailscale's new macOS homeI had been using Hidden Bar but gonna give Thaw a shot now. Looks a bit more full featured and under active development!
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In Tailscale's new macOS home25. Left-clicking in a window to raise it _sometimes_ performs actions in the app (e.g. clicking a button or scrolling the window) and _sometimes_ only raises the window. It seems to depend on the app.
26. No ability to use focus-follows-mouse.
27. Home/End keys send you to the top/bottom of the whole document instead of the start/end of a line. The latter is much more useful to me and I use it all the time. You can change this behavior with a terminal command followed by rebooting, but some programs still do whatever they want.
28. Automatic text replacements change the text you entered into the text that Apple thinks you mean. (Can also be disabled.)
29. Holding down an alphanumeric key brings up an accept/symbol selector, as on iPhone. This isn't compatible with many terminal applications like vim.
30. The dock has a tendency to move a
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utomatically to another display when there is a maximized window on that display. (I know how to move the dock by going bottom of the display and moving the mouse down, this isn't that.)
31. The camera notch can hide icons and you have no way to get to them without either connecting and external display or a workaround like https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden.
Ice never worked for me. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden is the only thing I could make on my Mac work for some reason. I think https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer didn't work either for me (well, it used to then it stopped after a Mac update or so).
Anyway, after 15.4 update yesterday a lot of things are misbehaving for me including miraculous battery drains.
In Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu BarI have used HiddenBar for a while and it's been pretty solid. It's open-source: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)I use Hidden Bar (https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden) for this. It works well enough despite not being updated in a while, though there is a bit of jank. Just tried out Ice and it seems to be a nice, lower jank replacement!
In Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOSHidden Bar is good enough
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS> https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
Last update: 2 years ago
In macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New OwnerAlso Hidden Bar https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developerI refrained to install Bartender on a new machine (despite having a license) because of the scary permissions it want me to grant it. I found an open source alternative that fits my needs. Check if fits yours.
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developerI switched to HiddenBar a few years ago when a Bartender licence ran out. It's open source, it's free, and it hasn't been taken over by a new owner who won't identify themselves. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
In macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner> * I discovered a free, native macOS solution that doesn't require installing Bartender or any other additional apps.*
> You can adjust the values from 0 to 6 to accommodate even more icons. Personally, I found 6 to be a good fit.
It's ultimately a really petty point - but this is not a fix. This increases the number of apps on the top bar before the problem occurs. Bartender (and hidden[1] - which I discovered in this thread) fix the problem. Calling a technique that delays the problem "a solution" after sneering at a project that actually is a solution just rubs me the wrong way.
Edit: Though I'll leave my rude comment in its original form, it's also important to note that OP added a note clarifying this may not fix the problem for everyone in what I thought was a mature reaction to a petty complaint.
[1] https://github.com/dwarvesf/hi
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The open-source Hidden Bar is my current solution to this problem, but I think I prefer this native fix.
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
brew install --cask hiddenbar
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