Almost every top/must have/best Mac apps list in existence for the past couple of years is recommending Bartender – a simple app that hides away menu bar icons until you need them and so both saves space and stops distractions.
- Hello all, Looking to get as native Apple Silicon as I can with my apps, looking for an app that hides the menu bar items. I currently have Bartender 3 for my macOS Catalina intel Mac but would like to explore any other ones.
- Jan 29, 2018 Five Essential Apps for Your Mac. Bartender 3 is a super popular Mac app that lets you rearrange and hide icons on the menu bar of your Mac. With Bartender, you can put the menu bar items you.
Bartender 3 is a mess, all the app you don't want hidden, disappear and if you decide you want them all in your menu without having a big display, you are better off Bartender completely. It was so good having the second menu bar, clean and organized and you could still keep an eye on the others apps. With Bartender you can choose which apps stay in the menu bar, are hidden and revealed with a click or a hotkey or are hidden completely. With Show for updates have men bar icons display when you want to see them automatically. These are just some of Bartenders great features, check out some other below. Hidden menu bar icons.
So far so good. The only problem with the app is that it costs $15. I mean, when you pay a few thousand bucks for a non user upgradable, with no ports, that breaks easily and it’s super hard to repair laptop, yeah… 15 bucks for an app seems like a bargain.
But what if i told you that you can get the same functionality, for free, from an open source app? Enter Dozer….
How To Install:
1. The easiest way to install Dozer is via Homebrew ( click on homebrew to learn how to install and use it ).
2. Once Homebrew is installed, install Dozer with the following command: brew cask install dozer
How To Use Dozer:
1. When you open Dozer, you’ll see two new dots in your menu bar. Hold the command key on your keyboard and drag them around so they are next to each other.
2. All the icons that you want to hide should be outside those two dots. All the icons that you want to display should be inside the two dots. You rearrange menu bar icons by holding the command key on your keyboard and drag the icons around.
Bartender Macos
3. Left-click one of the Dozer dots to hide/show the status bar icons. Right-click one of the Dozer dots to open the settings where you can also set Dozer to automatically hide icons after 10 seconds of inactivity.
Bartender App
That’s it.