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Hide Mac menu bar clutter and pin individual actions
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Native macOS app that hides menu bar icons behind one item, rescues icons stuck behind the notch, pins menu commands to hotkeys, keeps new menu bar apps hidden, flags battery-hungry hidden apps, and syncs your layout across your Macs with iCloud.
PH · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 85 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial A SwiftUI settings and hotkey interface is vibe-codeable, but hiding and rearranging other apps' menu bar items and handling the notch requires undocumented or private macOS APIs and accessibility hacks.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift app that uses Accessibility APIs, CGWindow lists, and possibly private WindowServer calls to hide and reorder status items, plus a global hotkey system and iCloud sync via CloudKit. The hard part is keeping this working across macOS versions, which requires macOS internals expertise and ongoing maintenance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 867 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 868 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- CleanBar – Menu Bar Manager · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Tuck · ph · 2026-10-10 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Chest · hn · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- justhide · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Poof · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Shortcuts in Menu Bar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? · hn · 2026-01-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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