Ice Menu Bar icon
Ice Menu Bar icon

Ice Menu Bar

 15 likes

Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac  Requires macOS 14 or higher
4.7 / 5 Avg rating (6)
15 likes
7comments
0 news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Hide MenuBar
  2.  Sits in the MenuBar
  3.  No registration required
  4.  System Tweaker

Ice Menu Bar News & Activities

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Recent activities

  • noctis-x, evandazhe and Chaanakya liked Ice Menu Bar
    about 1 month ago
  • damino reviewed Ice Menu Bar  
    2 months ago

    I came from Hidden Menu and this app is very nice, customizable … But for some reasons Ice affect some apps that in the menu bar making them non effective

  • thiefjim liked Ice Menu Bar
    2 months ago
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    wearedree added Ice Menu Bar as alternative to MenuFree
    2 months ago
  • niksavc liked Ice Menu Bar
    5 months ago
  • westwong0622 updated Ice Menu Bar
    5 months ago
  • justarandom liked Ice Menu Bar
    5 months ago
  • psiaqu reviewed Ice Menu Bar  
    8 months ago

    Open source, prestine and works. 6/10 Can't believe people pay for software like this.

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Ice Menu Bar information

AlternativeTo Category

OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  16,523 Stars
  •  294 Forks
  •  117 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 26, 2025 
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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Ice Menu Bar, and it has gotten 15 likes

Ice Menu Bar was added to AlternativeTo by hercut hercut on Mar 22, 2024 and this page was last updated Sep 21, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Nikodem
  
Top positive commentJun 18, 2024

Open source, prestine and works. 6/10 Can't believe people pay for software like this.

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Guest
  
Positive commentJun 18, 2024

Laughable people pay for bartender when this exists

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alternativetos
CommentJun 14, 2024

Free and open source, actively developed. It allows a split menu bar, and has a secondary floating bar coming soon to support notch macbooks,

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mihailfleytman
  
Positive commentJun 6, 2024

New open source app for working with menuapp bar. So far, there is no solution similar to bartender, ibar or barbee to work around problems with notch

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aikiharp
  
Positive commentMay 6, 2024

Very promising app. Sonoma and above only. It's nice to see development for menubar items since other FOSS options have been static for a while.

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damino
  
ReviewApr 7, 2024
• Edited Dec 3, 2024

I came from Hidden Menu and this app is very nice, customizable … But for some reasons Ice affect some apps that in the menu bar making them non effective

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Rodrigo Arroyo
  
Positive commentMar 24, 2024

gratis, eficiente, bajo consumo de recursos y hace todo lo que promete. Genial!

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What is Ice Menu Bar?

Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.

Features/Roadmap Menu bar item management

v Hide menu bar items v "Always Hidden" menu bar section v Show hidden items when hovering over the menu bar v Show hidden items when an empty area in the menu bar is clicked v Automatically rehide x Drag and drop interface to arrange individual items x Search menu bar items x Display hidden items in a separate bar (e.g. for MacBooks with the notch) x Custom spacing between items x Profiles for menu bar layout

Menu bar appearance

v Menu bar tint (solid and gradient) v Menu bar shadow v Menu bar border v Custom menu bar shapes (rounded and/or split)

Hotkeys

v Toggle individual menu bar sections x Temporarily show individual menu bar items x Enable/disable auto rehide

Other

v Launch at login v Automatic updates x Menu bar widgets

Why the name? Because your menu bar becomes like ice, allowing your menu bar items to slide away 🧊🧊🧊

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