Blenny
Organize your macOS 27 menu bar without moving your pointer
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Details
- External ID
- 1267809
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Blenny
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 63
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.96
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Blenny is a free, open-source menu bar organizer for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 27. Keep essentials visible, reveal occasional apps with a click, and keep the rest hidden. Arrange apps in a draft, Apply when ready, and Undo the last change. No pointer movement, simulated clicks, or Screen Recording permission. Apache-2.0 licensed; self-signed, not Apple-notarized. The website has an interactive demo and the README lists compatibility limits.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- macos menu bar organizer for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Controlling and rearranging third-party menu bar items on modern macOS without simulated pointer clicks requires deep, low-level macOS private API engineering or undocumented accessibility hooks.
What it would actually take: A production version requires reverse-engineering private macOS WindowServer and ControlCenter/SystemUIServer daemon APIs in Objective-C/Swift. Developers must bypass Apple sandbox restrictions and handle internal SkyLight framework internals to manipulate menu bar extra items programmatically without triggering screen recording permission prompts or using UI automation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tuck · ph · 2026-10-10 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? · hn · 2026-01-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- justhide · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ellipsis · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- BarBar-support · github · 2026-09-18 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
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