Free & open-source · Built for macOS
Your menu bar.Back under control.
The notch took the space. Bartender's Friend gives you the choice: open the icons when you need them, close them when you don't.
icons? Sure. Space was not the problem. The menu bar just kept going.
Then the notch tookthe best seats.
The camera got a home. Your status icons lost theirs. A giant interruption arrived exactly where the menu bar used to breathe.
if you're lucky. The rest still run—they just fight for pixels you no longer have.
From “keep it all visible”
to “which foursurvive today?”
With Bartender's Friend,that is history.
Arrange the icons once. Then use one deliberate control to reveal the hidden section or put it away. Simple on purpose.
No guessing. No surprise rules. You decide when the bar opens.
Three steps. That's it.
- 01
Arrange once
Command-drag the icons you want tucked away behind the divider.
- 02
Close
One click returns the menu bar to calm, useful essentials.
- 03
Open
Click again and the full section is right where you left it.
No accounts.
No cloud.
No drama.
Bartender's Friend is being designed as a fast, predictable, native companion with a small Rust core. The project is in active development and the source will tell the whole story.
You decide what changes and when.
Your menu bar is not analytics data.
Inspectable source, developed transparently.
The notch can stay.The clutter doesn't have to.
Follow the open-source build and help shape a smaller, calmer menu bar utility for the Mac.
View the projectgithub.com/Eris-Margeta/bartenders-friend