A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps

1. stats

   1 197 29,854 9.5 Swift

   macOS system monitor in your menu bar

   

   Stats is open source & free: https://github.com/exelban/stats

   Works on Apple Silicon with no issues. I used to pay for iStat Menus but Stats is totally fine for my needs, so I do not use iStat Menus anymore.

2. CodeRabbit

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3. bitbar

   2 52 17,691 7.9 Go

   Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

   

   Then it will create a menu bar entry titled "Hello" with a single element in its drop-down menu, which will open Hacker News when clicked. You place your program in a specific directory for xbar to run, and it can be configured to run at a given frequency, e.g. once a minute to report the results of an API call or some measurement from your system, etc. Up to you to build the menu bar app you want.

   [1] https://xbarapp.com/

4. SketchyBar

   3 36 7,987 7.6 C

   A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement

   

   Not sure why the downvotes, same here. I disabled mine in favour of sketchy bar [0]. I hide most things except for bandwidth and clock. Super handy.

   0: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar

5. SwiftBar

   4 19 3,113 6.7 Swift

   Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool

   

6. hidden

   5 51 11,819 0.0 Swift

   An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons

   

7. MenuMeters

   6 10 3,030 0.0 Objective-C

   my fork of MenuMeters by http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

   

8. BlackHole

   7 175 15,974 4.3 C

   BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

   

9. Nutrient

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10. tip

    8 8 942 3.5 Ruby

    Programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app

    

    Alternatively, you can program Tip (https://github.com/tanin47/tip, disclaimer: I'm the creator) to popup relevant menu items based on the text you currently select.

    I've been using this at work hundreds of times every day for years now. I'd love anyone to try it out.

11. hammerspoon

    9 1 0 3.1 Lua

    Hammerspoon script (by jemmyw)

    

    You'll be disappointed because my use case is pretty simple - move the dock, remaximize all windows on the main screen and move chrome to my secondary screen.

    https://github.com/jemmyw/hammerspoon/blob/main/init.lua

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