Menu Bar Apps Products & Tools (2026)

Tiny little apps that do magical things and live in your OS X menu bar. Collect 'em all!

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DockX
Everything on Dock & Menu bar
4.0 (1 review)
Productivity Presentation Software Product add-ons
Tangerine
Launched this month
Offline file modifier for Mac
4.0 (1 review)
Bunch
Text-based automation for macOS
4.0 (1 review)
NASA Picture of the Day
Image of our universe every day on your Mac 🌌
4.0 (1 review)
Tidy
Launched this month
Fix grammar in any Mac app with free on-device AI
4.0 (1 review)
Writing assistants
Quick Access
Organise files in the Mac menu bar
4.0 (1 review)
Backtrack
Record audio from the past
4.0 (1 review)
Contrast
A macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios
4.0 (1 review)
Design resources
Battery Life and Health
A simple, compact battery indicator for macOS
4.0 (1 review)
PeakHour
Launched this month
Your Mac's network, graded and explained by on-device AI
4.0 (1 review)
Observability tools
Mac Duo
Launched this month
Turn your display into frosted glass as you close the lid
4.0 (1 review)
Forehead
Hide the notch and round all corners on the new MacBook Pro
2.5 (2 reviews)
DoubleMemory
Bookmark organizer/clipboard manager/read-it-later in one
3.0 (1 review)
Xnip
Handy screenshot app for mac
3.0 (1 review)
Screenshots and screen recording apps
Cliptonite - Clipboard Manager
A beautifully crafted, and performant clipboard manager
3.0 (1 review)

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Product Hunt

What's in your dock?

I was recently reminded of @Dockhunt and how fun it was to see what kinds of apps different folks kept in their dock. I remember it being a cool way to discover some new products I hadn't seen before. I'm also just a big fan of desktop apps over web apps. I find it a lot easier to stay focused when I'm flipping between apps vs flipping between tabs.

These are the apps in my dock:

@Google Chrome - Pretty basic. I've really been considering switching over to @Horse though.
@Slack - The de facto option.
@Superhuman - Maybe the fastest I've become a fan of a product. I think I was pushing it on others within a few hours.
@Notion - Great for documentation and collaborating. I also use it personally for tracking books I read and video games I play, along with tracking personal projects.
Notion Calendar - The menu bar aspect of this is really what sold me. It makes it so much easier to stay on top of my meetings every day.
@Linear - We just recently switched over to Linear here at @Product Hunt and I've been loving it. Pro tip: if you prefer the desktop app, there's a setting to open links in the app, but you can only set that option through the web version.
@iTerm2 - I've tried others, but this is my favorite. This + @Neovim is just
@Claude by Anthropic - This has been my LLM of choice for a while, and I really like having it as a desktop app. Especially the keyboard shortcut to quickly bring it up and ask something.
@Tandem - Super easy to stay in touch and sync with teammates. Incredibly useful for a remote team.
@Spotify - I typically have a YouTube video on in the background, but if I'm writing or doing something more focused, I'll typically have some kind of Jazz going.

40 comments•519 views

1yr ago

Pulse Island

I turned the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island

Every MacBook since 2021 has a notch, and on macOS it does absolutely nothing. On iPhone, the same cutout became the most useful strip on the screen.

That gap bothered me, so I built Pulse Island, a native macOS app that turns the notch into a live, interactive island.

10 comments•128 views

2mo ago

Audio Writer iOS

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5 comments•46 views

4yr ago

PopTask - AI Powered Menu Bar To-do List

my mac app didn't open at all for 4 months and i had no idea

there's no changelog for PopTask anywhere, the app store "what's new" box is read by roughly nobody, so from now on every update lands in this thread, small ones as replies, bigger ones as their own post

what's shipped since july:

21 comments•128 views

1mo ago

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