Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to YTMusic MenuBar
The ultimate macOS menu bar companion for YouTube Music.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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MenubarX▲474A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.
2022 · menubarx.app · its alternatives →
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AudioPriorityBar▲217Priority-based audio switching for macOS menu bar
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cumulus▲160A SoundCloud player that lives in your Mac menu bar
2015 · gillesdemey.github.io · its alternatives →
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Bartender▲616Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac
2014 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →
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YTMP▲104Play YouTube videos as audio in background without ads
2021 · ytmp.itsvg.in · its alternatives →
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ExtraBar▲152Hey 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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A native YouTube app for macOS, written in Swift
2020 · dbklabs.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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MacMenuBar▲317A curated directory of 200+ Mac menu bar apps
2019 · macmenubar.com · its alternatives →
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Background Music▲218Control the audio on your Mac apps from the menu bar
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The most powerful URL shortener for macOS
2017 · shortmenu.com · its alternatives →
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MenuTube▲8Entire full functional YouTube into your macOs’s menu bar.
2017 · edanchenkov.github.io · its alternatives →
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Meteorite▲134A minimal & frictionless menu bar notetaker for macOS
Feb 2026 · trymeteorite.com · its alternatives →
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Lounge▲80macOS Tahoe menu bar manager with notch-aware icon control
Apr 2026 · lounge.asktobuild.app · its alternatives →
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Skip Tunes▲115Control iTunes, Spotify, or Rdio from your Mac's menubar
2015 · skiptunes.com · its alternatives →
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