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24 alternatives to Bartender 5

Raising the bar, again

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bartender 5 launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Bartender 4▲247

   Award-winning app for macOS that superpowers your menu bar

   2021 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Bartender▲616

   Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac

   2014 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Bartender 2▲301

   Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac

   2015 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Make OS X Great Again▲630

   Fix the things that make 🍎 OS X annoying

   2018 · makeosxgreatagain.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Bartender 4▲11

   Take control of your menu

   2020 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →

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   Cocktail▲123

   Clean, repair and optimize your Mac 🍸

   2021 · cocktail.maintain.se · its alternatives →

7. 7
   DockX▲232

   Everything on dock & menu bar

   2023 · dockx.app · its alternatives →

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   MenubarX▲474

   A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.

   2022 · menubarx.app · its alternatives →

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   Captain▲191

   A Docker menu bar app for Mac

   2017 · getcaptain.co · its alternatives →

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    Arthur▲271

    Effortlessly optimize some of your Mac's hidden settings

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Later▲447

    Save all your Mac apps for later with one click

    2022 · getlater.app · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Progress Bar OSX▲644

    This is your life and it's ending ⏳ one minute at a time

    2018 · progressbarosx.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Badgeify▲210

    Add App Icons & Notifications to Your Mac Menu Bar

    2024 · badgeify.app · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Barbee▲80

    Hide Menu Bar Items, clean up your menu bar

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Instant for Mac▲132

    A menu bar app to track the daily time spent on your Mac

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Superbar▲191

    Supercharge your Mac menubar

    2019 · superbar.app · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Bartender's Choice Vol. 2▲67

    The definitive classic cocktail app

    2018 · bartenderschoice.co · its alternatives →

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    Joy▲125

    A Mac menu bar app that throws confetti for your wins

    Aug 2026 · joy.jawahar.sh · its alternatives →

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    Barred▲11

    A lightweight, open-source menu bar manager for macOS

    Aug 2026 · marginalutility.dev · its alternatives →

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    Mac TODO Menubar▲144

    All your todos easily accessible from your menu bar!

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Finbar▲104

    Supercharged menu bar search for your Mac

    2023 · finbarapp.com · its alternatives →

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    ExtraBar▲152

    Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackle the macOS big boss: the menu bar. I spend ~40% of my day context-switching between apps — Zoom meetings, Slack channels, Code projects, and Figma designs. My macOS menu bar has too many useless icons I almost never use. So I thought to myself, how can I use this area to improve my workflows? Most solutions (Bartender, Ice) require screen recording permissions, and did not really solve my…

    Dec 2025 · extrabar.app · its alternatives →

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    Ice▲106

    Powerful menu bar manager for macOS

    2025 · icemenubar.app · its alternatives →

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    UptimeBar▲135

    A simple OS X menu bar app for monitoring website uptime

    2018 · uptimebar.app · its alternatives →

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