Menu Bar Apps Tools
Explore the best new Menu Bar Apps tools and products curated by the community.
AccountyCat is a focus companion for macOS that reads context instead of blocking lists. It sits in your menu bar, sees your active app and window title (and a screenshot only when needed), then quietly nudges when you drift. Sometimes YouTube is procrastination, sometimes it's the tutorial — AC tells the difference. Runs fully on-device with Qwen via llama.cpp, or with your own OpenRouter key. Open source, auditable, private. Interrupting legitimate work is treated as a bug.
QuickSheet is a tiny, instant spreadsheet that lives in your Mac's menu bar. One shortcut and you're crunching numbers, no need to open Numbers. Real formulas (SUM, IF, COUNT), conditional formatting, freeze rows/columns, formula-preserving paste from Sheets & Excel, CSV import/export, and Paste & Clean Table for messy web copy. No signup, no subscription, no ads, no data collected - ever. Everything stays local on your Mac. Free for life.
Autocomplete :emoji: everywhere on macOS. Type a colon and search any emoji, symbol, or shortcode in seconds — in TextEdit, iMessage, Terminal, anywhere. Slack and a few other apps have this — type :heart: and you get ❤️. It makes finding emoji easy. I wanted it everywhere on my Mac, so I built Mojito. It works just like you'd expect, and it's smart enough to ignore apps and sites that already support it. And it's free, open-source donationware.
Tesserac replaces the flat Cmd+Tab strip with immersive spatial layouts designed for speed, focus, and muscle memory on macOS. Hold a key, glance at your apps, and release to switch. Choose between Spatial Ring, Grid, List, and Glass Orb layouts. Pin favourite apps, ignore clutter, and switch instantly using keyboard shortcuts or modifier keys. Built for keyboard-driven workflows. Native on Apple Silicon. Private by design. No subscription. 7-day free trial. One-time purchase.
A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with a local speech model running entirely on-device. One global shortcut brings up a small bar at the bottom of your screen. It captures your mic and the system audio as separate tracks, labels who said what, and lets you flag key moments mid-call that sit inline at the right timestamp. No bot joins the call, nothing leaves your Mac, no account, no subscription.
ModelHub is a native macOS menu bar app for developers working with local LLMs. It helps you discover models from Hugging Face, download the right local build, manage your model library, and use Hugging Face models with Ollama, MLX, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and the tools you already have without bouncing between browser tabs, terminal commands, model cards, and local folders. Ollama, MLX, and LM Studio are great tools. ModelHub is the missing discovery and management layer around them.
Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English so you don't have to guess.
RetroMac turns your modern Mac into a live retro machine: CRT, classic Macintosh, VHS, Game Boy and more. Apply 30+ shader presets to your whole screen or a single window, swap your Dock for classic Mac and Windows looks, and capture themed screenshots. Free with optional extra presets.
Keep your Mac from falling asleep, with one click! With Coca in your Mac's menu bar, you stay green in all your messengers. 🟢
A chromatic tuner for macOS. ±1¢ accuracy, eight historical temperaments and presets for bowed, folk, guitar and bass strings — native, offline, opens in 200 ms.
AutoShelf is a macOS app that watches your folders and auto-organizes files. Set a rule once and never think about it again. Free to try, unlock unlimited for $19.99.
QuickRight adds the missing right-click features to macOS Finder. Create new files instantly, use true Cut & Paste, open Terminal or Warp in the current folder, copy file paths, move files faster, compress images, extract colors, check hashes, and more — all directly from Finder’s context menu. Built for macOS users who work with files every day.
Wring is an offline macOS menu bar app with 12 developer tools for JWTs, hashes, regex, JSON, Base64, timestamps, cron, colors, UUIDs, diffs, load monitoring, andenv secrets. No account, no analytics, no network access.
Raybeam is a macOS app for sharing a draggable, resizable region of your screen—perfect for ultra-wide and multi-monitor setups. Works with Zoom, Slack, Teams, and more.
Glance is a fully free native macOS Quick Look extension for Markdown files. Press Space on anymd file in Finder and get an instant, cleanly rendered preview instead of raw syntax. Built for developers working with README files, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, specs, notes, and AI-generated docs. Supports tables, code blocks, links, images, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and smart zoom. Works fully offline, weighs only 8.3 MB, and has zero telemetry.
Lychee is a free macOS menu bar lyrics app. Work with Spotify and Apple Music. No login or sign up required.
A floating macOS menu-bar app that polishes typos, punctuation, and grammar with Apple's on-device Foundation Models. Optional cloud via your own Claude or OpenAI key.
Whisper Island brings voice transcription to every app on your Mac.You speak, the text is pasted into the active app: Slack, Notion, your IDE, your browser, your mail. Anywhere, without leaving the window you're in. The overlay lives in your MacBook notch, or as a floating pill. Always there, never in the way. Multi-language, powered by OpenAI's Whisper. One login with your Coddo account, one quota, two apps. Built for people who write a lot every day. The keyboard becomes optional.
A calm Pomodoro timer for Mac that lives in your menu bar, keeps breaks simple, and shows local 30-day focus analytics without accounts or clutter.
Monitor Claude Code and Codex from the Mac notch. Sessions, permissions, token usage, and local dev servers. Session data stays local.
Your Mac goes to sleep mid-presentation. Mid-recipe. Mid-video call. Every. Single. Time. Glowix prevents your display from sleeping whenever you need it to stay on. No digging through System Settings, no moving the mouse every 2 minutes. Just toggle it from your menu bar and get back to work. ✅ Prevent display sleep on demand ✅ Menu bar toggle — one click on/off ✅ Lightweight, zero battery drain when off ✅ No System Settings changes needed