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24 alternatives to Menu Exclipse 2

Sweet little tool that lets you hide your top menu bar

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Menu Exclipse 2 launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Bartender▲616
Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac
2014 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →
2
MenubarX▲474
A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.
2022 · menubarx.app · its alternatives →
3
Popclip▲122
The Swiss Army Knife of Mac apps
2014 · popclip.app · its alternatives →
4
Bartender 2▲301
Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac
2015 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →
5
Hocus Focus▲304
A Mac menu bar utility that hides your inactive windows
2014 · hocusfoc.us · its alternatives →
6
Dozer▲166
Hide menu bar icons with ease ✨
2019 · dozermac.com · its alternatives →
7
Surfdeck▲125
Your tabs, within reach.
Aug 2026 · surfdeck.app · its alternatives →
8
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 →
9
TopNotch▲271
Makes the new MacBook Pro notch disappear like a Ninja
2021 · topnotch.app · its alternatives →
10
Space Drop▲87
A better drag & drop for Mac
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
11
Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS▲309
Hi everyone! I'm Marius Hauken, an indie developer, and I'm excited to share my app: Pie Menu. It offers a fresh way to access your favorite menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts on macOS. By simply pressing a hotkey you choose during setup, a radial menu appears around your cursor, customized to the current active application. This allows you to quickly select commands without having to remember complex shortcuts across different applications. Pie Menu comes with a library of preprogrammed commands for popular apps, but you can easily add any app on your computer. We've also created an…
2024 · pie-menu.com · its alternatives →
12
Pearl▲121
See yourself in your Mac's menu bar
2016 · thnkdev.com · its alternatives →
13
ChocolateBar▲74
Add a row under your menu bar for hidden icons
Jun 2026 · chocolatebar.app · its alternatives →
14
ClipBar▲76
Quickly see your pasteboard from your Menu Bar
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
Free My Desktop▲147
Hides all the icons from your desktop with a click
2018 · valentinourbano.com · its alternatives →
16
Captain▲191
A Docker menu bar app for Mac
2017 · getcaptain.co · its alternatives →
17
FloatBrowser▲158
Mac menubar browser with tabs
2024 · beauty-of-pixel.tech · its alternatives →
18
Copyclip▲108
Simple, efficient clipboard manager for your Mac
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hidden Bar▲101
Hide menubar items
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
20
Thyme▲117
Mac menubar timer
2015 · joaomoreno.github.io · its alternatives →
21
Hush▲142
Blur your messy desktop to hide it during screen sharing
Feb 2026 · poteam.pro · its alternatives →
22
Barbee▲80
Hide Menu Bar Items, clean up your menu bar
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
Short Menu▲82
URL shortener for your Mac's menu bar
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hide My Bar▲119
macOS app to turn off the Touch Bar at will
2020 · clemstation.com · its alternatives →

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