MTMR VS hidden

Control your TouchBar

Oh. Oh my.

Pock, MTMR are the best if you just wanna customize it to your preference. There's also Muse if you want a music player.

MTMR: open source, let you eat the tasteless, throw away the pity of the TouchBar and a little bit of use, my configuration can be seen in item.json

Or My TouchBar. My Rules.

MTMR

I used MTMR to fix some static actions in place which was better, but I'm still much happier with the function key row on the 14"

Not a replacement for physical buttons but you can use MTMR to personalise what appears on the touchbar. Made a huge difference for me, I didn't use it before.

I can also recommend MTMR to modify your touchbar 😊

Er sorry, you misunderstand me-- I mean customizable by downloading new software, not by turning the itty bitty knobs they give you out of the box. You know, same as linux! (Unless you're one of the cool people who has written their own window manager, most of us just download that shit and tweak it to our liking)

Some apps I like

- Better Touch Tool https://folivora.ai/

- https://www.raycast.com/

- MTMR https://mtmr.app/ (admittedly hate the touchbar but hey at least i can tweak it)

- iTerm is def the best terminal app experience

- the builtin trackpad is by far the best of any OS (esp boosted by BTT), but for plugged in mice i use https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

I guess that's all of them actually, don't use much more than that.

> * I discovered a free, native macOS solution that doesn't require installing Bartender or any other additional apps.*

> You can adjust the values from 0 to 6 to accommodate even more icons. Personally, I found 6 to be a good fit.

It's ultimately a really petty point - but this is not a fix. This increases the number of apps on the top bar before the problem occurs. Bartender (and hidden[1] - which I discovered in this thread) fix the problem. Calling a technique that delays the problem "a solution" after sneering at a project that actually is a solution just rubs me the wrong way.

[1] https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

There's Hidden Bar but I think it's a lot like Bartender. It has an arrow too if that's what you want.

Hidden is a great free and open-source alternative

Hidden Bar - hides menu bar icons

hidden bar is the best one from my experience and it’s open source!

Dozer (free - open source), HiddenBar (free), free alternatives to bartender, however, only does 1 thing and that's hiding the icons, not adding an extra menu, nothing just icons here, icons gone.

For apps that you never interact with that way, and won't let you turn their icons off, get HiddenBar.