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24 alternatives to Symbar

Quick access to SF Symbols from your 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. Symbar launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
SF Symbols 3▲96
600 new icons + hierarchical color customization + inspector
2021 · its alternatives →
2
SF Symbols 5▲240
5K symbols designed to work with Apple's San Francisco font
2023 · its alternatives →
3
Characters▲143
Mac menu bar app for quick use of special characters.
2015 · its alternatives →
4
Palette For Mac▲205
A menu bar based colour contrast analyser
2016 · its alternatives →
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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 →
6
MenubarX▲483
A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.
2022 · its alternatives →
7
Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG▲29
I found myself reaching for SF Symbols' 'Copy Image As…' quite often during agentic design sessions, so I made a command-line tool that the agent can use by itself. It exports Apple SF Symbols as SVG, PDF, or PNG. The vector paths come directly from macOS's symbol renderer. Internally it reaches a private ivar on NSSymbolImageRep to get the CUINamedVectorGlyph, draws into a CGPDFContext, then walks the PDF content stream back out as SVG `d` commands. The output matches what the system draws, rather than an approximation traced from rasters. A few things about it: - Every subcommand accepts…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
8
Color Converter▲100
Convert HEX/RGBA/HSL to code snippets from macOS menubar
2019 · its alternatives →
9
Color Peeker▲115
Color code in the menu bar
2021 · its alternatives →
10
Mojito▲162
Type to search for any emoji, symbol, or gif in seconds
May 2026 · mojito.wells.ee · its alternatives →
11
Create Custom Symbols▲8
Convert any icon SVG into SF Symbol
2024 · its alternatives →
12
Glyph Engine▲7
Find and Make new SF Symbols
Jun 2026 · glyphengine.app · its alternatives →
13
Culrs Mac App▲245
Thoughtfully crafted color palettes now on your mac menubar
2019 · its alternatives →
14BP
BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar▲149
2016 · getbitbar.com · its alternatives →
15
SF Symbols▲11
Over 1,500 configurable symbols from Apple.
2019 · its alternatives →
16
BitBar▲160
Put the output from any script in your Mac OS X Menu Bar
2016 · its alternatives →
17
Better Clipboard▲88
Smarter copy-paste for macOS. New version!
Mar 2026 · cuatro.studio · its alternatives →
18
SF Viewer▲5
View, compare and export SF Symbols
2019 · its alternatives →
19
ClipBar▲76
Quickly see your pasteboard from your Menu Bar
2020 · its alternatives →
20
Mojibar▲114
Better emoji search from your Mac's menubar
2015 · its alternatives →
21
StatusStats▲93
Mac Metrics In Your Menu Bar
Apr 2026 · statusstats.com · its alternatives →
22
SF Feathers▲86
Feather icons for all your Xcode projects
2021 · its alternatives →
23
Cheese! OCR▲73
Select any screen area, get text instantly
Apr 2026 · kaedeeeeeeeeee.github.io · its alternatives →
24
Symbol Pad▲86
Easily copy/paste special symbols and characters on iOS
2016 · its alternatives →

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