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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.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 74%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- appkit
- hidden-bar
- macos
- macos27
- menubar
- swift
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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 : 699 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #622 of 700 (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
- Tuck · ph · 2026-10-10 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- CleanBar – Menu Bar Manager · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Hemmed · ph · 2026-10-31 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Chest · hn · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Poof · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- 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
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