justhide
A small menu bar tidier for macOS 27. Pick the apps whose icons you do not need all the time; they disappear until you click the chevron.
Details
- External ID
- 1373695697
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- justhide
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28183448629259544
- Tags
- appkit, hidden-bar, macos, macos27, menubar, swift
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar icon manager for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Creating a macOS menu bar tidier (like Bartender or Hidden Bar) requires low-level macOS private APIs, accessibility hooks, and window server manipulation that change with each macOS version and break standard sandboxing.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/Objective-C interacting with private CoreGraphics APIs, SkyLight framework, and Accessibility API to identify foreign status bar items, calculate display coordinates, and manipulate NSStatusBar windows. Deep reverse engineering of macOS WindowServer internals is necessary to reliably hide and reveal arbitrary third-party status bar items.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 289 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #246 of 290 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- ellipsis · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? · hn · 2026-01-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ExposeIcons — Mission Control · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- RedialMenu · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Dynamic Menu Bar · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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