hidden
An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons (by dwarvesf)
AppPolice
MacOS app for quickly limiting CPU usage by running applications (by AppPolice)
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| hidden | AppPolice | |
|---|---|---|
| 45 | 8 | |
| 9,379 | 1,036 | |
| 2.3% | 0.5% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hidden
Posts with mentions or reviews of hidden.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.
- Tell HN: macOS Bartender disables features, forcing users to buy license again
- Show HN: Menu Bar Calendar on macOS
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In your opinion, what is the best one-time (non-recurring) purchase Mac App?
Hidden is a great free and open-source alternative
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What are your favorite open source apps?
Hidden Bar - hides menu bar icons
- Got my first Mac.
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App LIST!!!
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.
- Supersize my M1 MBP
- Best apps for a newbie to not miss ? I am going to use my first ever MBP I need recommendations please to make most of the machine
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Fully open source native Youtube App for macOS v3 has been released!
Or get Hidden Bar as a free alternative.
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First time Mac - open for any tips for a longterm windows user | MBP14 M1Pro/32GB/512GB/10C/16C
1.) alternative to Bartender: a free one named HiddenBar - https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
AppPolice
Posts with mentions or reviews of AppPolice.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-18.
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Free alternative to AppTamer?
Is this the latest version? https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice/releases/tag/v1.1
It's not as full-featured, but AppPolice is good if you want to manually tame adjust just a few apps. FOSS, but it hasn't been touched in a while.
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Hackintosh / MacOS free tools
- Lulu : user friendly and easy to use firewall - Stats : monitoring your hack/mac hardware (temps, fans, HDD, SSD...), basically a copy of iStat Menu but free - KeepingYouAwake : keep your hack/mac awake (prevent from going to sleep mode without modifying system parameters) - Hackintool : The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing (must have) - HoRNDIS : use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get internet access - AppCleaner : thoroughly uninstall apps - AppPolice : quickly throttle down the CPU usage of any running process - Onyx : clean and configure your hack/mac - HandBrake : open source video transcoder - Shutter Encoder: easy to use video transcoder - Keka : lightweight and powerful file archiver - Sublime Text : lightweight and powerful text editor - SuperDuper! : backup your disks, make the copy bootable if necessary - Teamviewer : control your hack/mac from another device (phone/computer/tablet) - VirusTotalUploader : check for malware inside a file - Malwarebytes : scan your system drive for malware - WineBottler : use Windows apps on MacOS - Karabiner-Elements : configure your keyboard as you want (useful to configure hotkeys on a windows keyboard) - IriunWebcam : use your phone as a wireless webcam - DaVinci Resolve: professional video editing software - Shifty : get more control over Nigh Shift
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hidden and AppPolice you can also consider the following projects:
Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS
Hackintool - The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing
sensible-side-buttons - A macOS menu bar app that enables system-wide navigation functionality for the side buttons on third-party mice.
LuLu - LuLu is the free macOS firewall
eul - 🖥️ macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.
HoRNDIS - Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X
Mos - 一个用于在 macOS 上平滑你的鼠标滚动效果或单独设置滚动方向的小工具, 让你的滚轮爽如触控板 | A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on macOS
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
KeepingYouAwake - Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.
iina - The modern video player for macOS.