Bartender is the award-winning, essential utility for macOS that organizes your overloaded menu bar. Designed to run lightning-fast on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, Bartender lets you hide, organize, or group your menu bar items so your workspace stays clean, focused, and completely tailored to your workflow.
Key Features
- Quick Reveal & Access: Instantly reveal your hidden menu bar items simply by hovering over, clicking, swiping, or scrolling in your menu bar.
- The Bartender Bar: Access overflow items in a clean second row beneath your main menu bar, giving you plenty of extra room for all your helper apps.
- Menu Bar Item Groups: Combine multiple related items (like cloud drives, audio controls, or connection tools) into a single custom-designed drop-down group.
- Smart Triggers & Presets: Automatically change your menu bar layout based on context. Set presets to trigger based on battery level, Wi-Fi network, location, time, Apple Focus modes, or custom scripts.
- Quick Search: Instantly find, show, and activate any menu bar item straight from your keyboard.
- Notch Optimization: Seamlessly navigate around MacBook camera notches by automatically hiding active items to free up vital display space.
- Deep Customization & Styling: Personalize your menu bar with custom color tints, gradients, borders, shadows, rounded display corners, and adjusted item spacing.
Why You'll Love Bartender
- Tailored Workflows: Hide distracting apps while keeping essential system monitors front and center.
- Hotkeys & Automation: Assign custom hotkeys to any menu bar item or leverage AppleScript integration for advanced power-user automations.
- Lightweight & Reliable: Engineered to integrate invisibly into macOS without slowing down your system.
Stop letting menu bar clutter overwhelm your display. Take back control with Bartender.