Hidden Bar
Ultra-lightweight macOS utility to hide menu bar items, offering launch at login, auto-hide intervals, full menu bar mode, global shortcuts, RTL languages, minimal system use, no ads, and a simple interface for enhanced organization and customization.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- No AI
Features
- Hide apps
- Sits in the MenuBar
- Ad-free
- System Tweaker
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- RTL support
- Global hotkey
Hidden Bar News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
bravely added Hidden Bar as alternative to Barmony- Danilo_Venom updated Hidden Bar
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innsoul added Hidden Bar as alternative to ChocolateBar
CharlesSnow added Hidden Bar as alternative to Tuck Menu Bar- magicus reviewed Hidden Bar
I have used Bartender but since the latest Bartender and macOS updates, it has just become clumsy, weird and buggy. Hidden Bar turned out to be the perfect replacement, doing just what it should, minimally and with no fuss.
- magicus liked Hidden Bar
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wouf336 added Hidden Bar as alternative to Thaw- Rakleed updated Hidden Bar
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What is Hidden Bar?
Hidden Bar is a Mac application that hides menu bar items to declutter the interface. It offers features such as auto-launch on system login, an auto-hide feature that activates after a specified interval, a global shortcut for controlling menu bar visibility, full menu bar mode, and Right-to-Left language compatibility.
Hidden Bar information
Developed by
Dwarves Foundation Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.6Alternatives
12 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
OS & UtilitiesGitHub repository
- 14,413 Stars
- 439 Forks
- 92 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
I couldn't get always hidden to work.
However, I think Hidden Bar is still the best of all the menu icon apps I've tried for the main reason that when it isn't in use, its CPU use 0% and it only eats 60MB of ram. Whereas all the other ones I tried used constant CPU and generally much more ram.
I have used Bartender but since the latest Bartender and macOS updates, it has just become clumsy, weird and buggy. Hidden Bar turned out to be the perfect replacement, doing just what it should, minimally and with no fuss.
Main complaint is that if you're on a MacBook with a notch. icons will reach a point where they will begin to stop displaying and hide beneath the notch where you cannot access them. Other than that it's a good app but this one oversight could be a dealbreaker.
Great FOSS alternative to Bartender and even available in the macOS App Store (or via GitHub).
It doesn't seem to be working on Ventura anymore - the arrow icon opens the app instead of hiding/unhiding.
I wish it would default to put apps in front instead of hide but hey everything else is perfect for menu bar management.
it is simple and does what is says. also very fast