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A curated directory of Mac menu bar apps, listing over 1700 small applications intended to help with productivity and workflow on macOS. The site organizes apps into collections covering categories such as audio, calendar, developer tools, finance, and weather.
FineTune is a free and open-source macOS menu bar app for audio control. It provides per-app volume sliders, per-app volume boost presets, routing of audio to multiple devices, and a 10-band EQ with headphone correction. Apps playing audio appear automatically in the menu bar, and users adjust sliders, route audio and explore EQ from there.
Itsycal is a small, free menu bar calendar for Mac. It shows Calendar events, ISO week numbers, and a customizable date and time in the menu bar. It offers features including event creation, joining virtual meetings, keyboard shortcuts, a URL scheme, Dark Mode, and displaying up to two months at a time.
OnlySwitch is a macOS menu-bar app that gathers everyday system controls into one customizable menu bar, including hiding desktop icons, changing appearance, keeping the Mac awake and managing the notch. Switches and Shortcuts can be added, removed, reordered, assigned keyboard shortcuts, or placed on the desktop as widgets.
WhatCable is a small macOS menu bar app that reports, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into a Mac can do. It surfaces IOKit port information in a menu bar popover, including charging diagnostics, data-speed verdicts and cable e-marker details.
Bunch is a macOS automation utility that reads plain text files called Bunches to launch applications, run scripts, open files and websites, and change system settings. It sits in the menu bar and presents the Bunches as a menu for switching between work contexts with a click. The software is free.
Shortshare is a utility application for URL shortener services, supporting 14 established services plus custom APIs and self-hosted solutions such as YOURLS. It shortens URLs via a menu bar icon, keyboard shortcut, Safari App Extension, Share Extension or the Windows Share menu, and supports custom URL keywords where the service allows. Link history synchronises across macOS and iOS devices via iCloud. The developer states it is no longer available for iOS and macOS.
MacVim is a port of the Vim text editor that integrates with macOS as a native app. It requires macOS 10.13 or later, with a separate download offered for macOS 10.9-10.12. It includes a graphical user interface with menus, a toolbar and Touch Bar support, and its 'encoding' option defaults to utf-8.
Codabar is a macOS menu bar app that tracks AI coding-provider usage windows, credits, costs and resets across 106 named providers. It shows per-provider session, weekly and monthly limits with reset countdowns, credit balances and monthly spend where exposed, plus provider status incident badges. It is free and open source for macOS 14 and later.
MacBing is a simple native macOS application that provides quick access to Bing Chat via the system menu bar. It requires macOS Ventura or newer to run. The app loads the Bing Chat interface in a web browser, requires users to log in with their Bing credentials, and allows assigning a keyboard shortcut for activation via a gear icon. MacBing is available for free with an optional paid tier, and is developed by the creator of other macOS utilities including Vivid, MacGPT, MacPoe and MacWhisper.
Stats is a free, open-source macOS system monitor that runs in the menu bar and tracks CPU, GPU, RAM, disk, network, sensors, battery, Bluetooth and a clock. The app requires macOS 12 or later and supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It offers 13 customizable widgets and is available as a direct download or via Homebrew.
TopNotch is a macOS app that makes the menu bar black and hides the display notch. It supports dynamic desktop wallpapers, multiple displays and spaces, runs in the background watching for wallpaper changes, and can add rounded corners to the wallpaper. It requires macOS 11.0 or newer and is available as a free download.
WhatCable is a macOS menu bar app from Bitmoor that explains USB-C connections in plain English, showing cable-reported speed, charging power and e-marker data alongside what the port, charger, adapter and device negotiate. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later and is open source, with a free tier for the current connection and an optional Pro tier.
xbar places the output of any script or program in the macOS menu bar. It is a complete rewrite of BitBar written in Go using Wails, open source under the MIT license, and requires macOS Catalina or newer. Users install plugins to discover and manage them, and the plugin directory is kept at ~/Library/Application Support/xbar/plugins.
MeetingBar is a macOS menu bar app that shows and joins upcoming meetings across 50+ services, including Zoom, Google Meet and Teams. Meetings can be joined with one click from the calendar.
Shortcut Keeper is a macOS app for saving and reviewing keyboard shortcuts used in everyday apps. Users store shortcuts per app, check them via a menu bar icon, and can bring the app forward with a keyboard shortcut. It is lightweight with a dark theme, filtering and layout options, and is bought once without subscriptions.
xbar is a macOS application that places the output of any executable script or program in the menu bar. It offers hundreds of pre-built plugins across categories such as AWS Cloud, Cryptocurrency, Email, Finance, Network, Weather and Web, and users can write their own plugins in any language. It is described as the BitBar reboot.
BatteryBuddy is a macOS menu bar battery indicator created by Neil Sardesai, described as like the default battery indicator but cute. It requires macOS 11.0 or newer and does not collect user data, connecting to the internet only for app updates. The developer notes it has only been tried on a MacBook Pro and may not work on Macs without a battery.
Gitify is a free, open-source application that delivers Git notifications on the desktop menu bar. It covers GitHub Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, Gitea (including Forgejo and Codeberg), GitLab, and Bitbucket Cloud. It is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Hot is a macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues. On Intel machines it shows the CPU temperature, speed limit, scheduler limit and available CPUs; on Apple Silicon it shows CPU temperature and thermal pressure, with an optional graph view for sensors. It is released under the MIT License.
KeepingYouAwake is a small macOS menu bar utility that prevents a Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated. It wraps Apple's caffeinate command line utility and requires macOS 10.13 or newer. It only prevents sleep on desktop Macs and portable Macs with an open lid.
Later is a Mac menu bar app that saves and restores a workspace. It lets users close windows and reopen them later, at a destination or after scheduled minutes or hours. The listed uses include saving battery, tidying the desktop for screensharing and preparing for Zoom meetings.
MacThrottle is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that monitors thermal pressure and alerts when a Mac is being throttled. It shows thermal pressure state with thermometer icons, CPU core temperature read from SMC, fan speed percentage on Macs with fans, a ten-minute history graph and statistics of time spent in each thermal state. No admin privileges are required.
NearDrop is an unofficial partial implementation of Google's Nearby Share/Quick Share for macOS. It runs in the menu bar and saves received files to the downloads folder. It works only over a Wi-Fi LAN, requiring the Android device and Mac to be on the same network.
