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CleanBar – Menu Bar Manager

Fold away clutter in your Mac menu bar

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Fold away the macOS menu bar icons you rarely use. Command-drag a divider into place, then click CleanBar or use a global shortcut to reveal your icons in the native menu bar. Optional auto-collapse keeps everyday icons in view. No account, Screen Recording, or Accessibility access required.

PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 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
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Partial The concept is simple, but macOS menu bar collapsing depends on undocumented status-item behavior and native AppKit code, which takes platform-specific expertise to get right across macOS versions.

What it would actually take: The app would be a native Swift/AppKit menu bar utility using NSStatusItem with a separator-item trick to hide and reveal icons, plus a global hotkey and optional auto-collapse timing. The hard part is staying compatible across macOS releases, since the menu bar layout behavior is not a public API. Signing, notarization, and testing on many hardware and OS combinations are also needed.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 894 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #216 of 895 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Tuck · ph · 2026-10-10 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • Hemmed · ph · 2026-10-31 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Shortcuts in Menu Bar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • Keypause · ph · 2026-11-08 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • justhide · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Chest · hn · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Simple terminal UI for cleaning macOS · hn · 2026-01-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59

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