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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itch.io
Download the latest indie games
5.0 (4 reviews)
Marketplace sites Games
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QWERTYS by Smart Keys
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WeTransfer
The simplest way to send your files around the world
4.5 (2 reviews)
Productivity File storage and sharing apps Cloud Computing Platforms
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DROP
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TextSniper
Text recognition simplified
5.0 (5 reviews)
Screenshots and screen recording apps Photo editing Text-to-Speech Software
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Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac
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Hidden Bar
Hide menubar items
5.0 (2 reviews)
App switcher
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Stealthly for macOS
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Itsycal
A tiny menu bar calendar
5.0 (2 reviews)
Calendar apps Scheduling software Product add-ons
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Apparent for Gmail
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Ice
Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
5.0 (2 reviews)
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Apparent for Gmail
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Numi
A beautiful calculator app for Mac
5.0 (3 reviews)
Bartender
I let you organize your menu bar apps
5.0 (3 reviews)
Interface design tools App switcher
Air
Don't let good ideas get lost in bad systems
4.7 (11 reviews)
Project management software File storage and sharing apps Marketing automation platforms
ClaudeUsageBar
Know exactly how much Claude you have left at a glance
5.0 (1 review)
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TapRefer
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Focused Work - Focus Timer
Flexible focus sessions to stay productive & avoid burnout.
5.0 (1 review)
Productivity Time tracking apps Mental Health
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focusedOS
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Vivid
Double the brightness of your MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR, System-Wide
5.0 (2 reviews)
Mumu
The most handy emoji picker on macOS, now with GPT-3!
5.0 (2 reviews)
Chrome Extensions
Today
Quickly view your schedule in the macOS menu bar
5.0 (2 reviews)
Homerow
Spotlight for the macOS user interface
5.0 (7 reviews)

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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.

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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:

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1mo ago

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