minibar
A tidy menu bar for your Mac. Small on the outside, everything you need inside.
Ready for macOS 27. Works with the new menu bar that broke most menu bar managers. How →
Free. macOS 14 Sonoma or later, including macOS 27. Apple silicon and Intel. Notarized by Apple. No account, no server, no tracking.
Direct link: minibar.mintrix.net/downloads/minibar-for-Mac.zip
What it looks like
Closed, the fridge shows three dots: your hidden icons are tucked away. Click it and the door swings open, and the hidden icons come back to the left of the fridge (tinted in the picture).
Ready for macOS 27
macOS 27 draws the whole menu bar as one piece and tucks whatever doesn't fit behind a « button. Menu bar managers that moved icons around stopped working. minibar asks macOS itself to leave apps out of the menu bar instead, so hidden icons are really gone, not squeezed or shuffled.
Choose what hides
Every app with a menu bar icon is listed in Settings: Visible, Hidden or Always hidden. New apps can be hidden automatically.
Back to the left of the fridge
Click the fridge and the hidden icons come back just left of it. No extra separators in your menu bar: the fridge is the divider.
Drag to change your mind
While hidden icons show, ⌘-drag an icon across the fridge to switch its app between hidden and visible.
Apple's icons too
Hide Battery, Bluetooth, Sound, Wi-Fi, Control Center, even Apple's clock, and let minibar's clock take its place.
Nothing lost behind «
When revealed icons don't fit, minibar opens macOS's « menu for you so you can see them.
macOS 27 hiding is in the direct download and needs the Accessibility permission. It hides whole apps: an app with two icons hides both. While anything is hidden, macOS also hides its Focus icon. On macOS 27 the TestFlight build uses a | divider and Apple's « instead, because App Store apps may not use this part of macOS.
How it works
- Open Settings → Hiding → Hidden apps and set each app to Visible or Hidden. Hidden icons disappear from the menu bar.
- Click the fridge to open it: the hidden icons come back to the left of the fridge. They hide again after a few seconds, or when you click elsewhere.
- Changed your mind? While they show, hold ⌘ and drag an icon across the fridge to switch it between hidden and visible.
- Set apps you almost never need to Always hidden. ⌥-click the fridge to see them.
On macOS 26, and in the TestFlight build on macOS 27, a | divider sits left of the fridge instead: ⌘-drag icons to the left of it to hide them.
Built for the notch
On a MacBook with a notch, macOS only has the strip to the right of the notch for icons, and silently drops the rest. minibar gives you three ways around it.
Hidden items panel
A strip under the menu bar shows pictures of your hidden icons. Click one and minibar forwards the click to the real icon, even when it doesn't fit beside the notch.
Always-hidden section
Fewer icons competing for space right of the notch.
Tighter spacing
Compact and Tight presets use macOS's own spacing settings to fit about a third more icons. Direct-download build only.
Everything else
Reveal your way
Click, keyboard shortcut, hover over the icon, or scroll on the menu bar.
Smart re-hiding
Hides after a delay you choose, or when you click outside the menu bar, and never while a menu is open.
Clock and calendar
An optional Day-O style clock: date and time in your own format, with a month calendar when clicked.
Your icon, your way
Fridge, chevron, ellipsis, dot, lines or eye. Template images that follow light and dark mode.
Launch at login
One toggle. No Dock icon, no app menu, nothing in your way.
Private by design
No account, no network access, no analytics. Screen Recording is optional and only used for the panel. Accessibility is used for the panel and, on macOS 27, to see which apps have menu bar icons.
The clock
Click minibar's clock and a month calendar drops down, with today, the week number and the day of the year. Seven format presets or your own pattern, with a live preview in Settings.
TestFlight beta
The TestFlight beta is being set up. Until the public link is live, use the direct download above, which is the same app signed and notarized by Apple.