Bartender's
Friend

One menu-bar icon · One click · Everything back

The notch hides your icons.We bring them back.

REAL APP CAPTURE · CURRENT MACHidden items recovered
01

The notch blocks the middle of the menu bar.

Real Bartender's Friend capture showing the macOS menu bar above a second-row tray with recovered app controls and live Stats widgets
02
Bartender's Friend opens the missing items below it.

Ordinary controls and wide live widgets stay visible and clickable.

Close-up of the recovered row containing app controls and live CPU, RAM, SSD, and network Stats widgets
  1. 1Click one icon
  2. 2Use everything the notch hid
  3. 3Click again to close

Click Bartender's Friend once. Every item hidden by the notch opens in a second row—ordinary controls, live Stats, and the things you need to run your Mac.

The 3-second version Follow the build
01 / BEFORE

Macs used to haveroom for everything.

The menu bar ran uninterrupted from edge to edge. Dozens of small utilities could stay visible without competing with the camera.

02 / THE PROBLEM

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.

From “keep it all visible”

to “which four
survive today?”
03 / THE FIX

With Bartender's Friend,that is history.

Click the one Bartender's Friend control. The items the notch hid open in a separate row below it. Click again and the row closes.

01 / ONE CONTROLIt adds one small icon.

Your normal menu-bar items stay packed against the right edge.

02 / ONE ROWThe missing items open below.

The notch cannot cover a row that sits underneath the menu bar.

03 / REAL CONTROLSThey still work.

Open an app menu or read a live Stats widget from the recovered row.

THE WHOLE WORKFLOW

Three steps. That's it.

  1. 01

    Click the Friend

    One compact control is always reachable at the right of the bar.

  2. 02

    Use what was hidden

    A second row puts ordinary icons and wide widgets below the notch.

  3. 03

    Close when done

    Click again and the recovered row disappears. Nothing else moves.

A SMALL MAC APP

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.

01Manual by design

You decide what changes and when.

02Local by default

Your menu bar is not analytics data.

03Open from day one

Inspectable source, developed transparently.

Project in active development

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