Menu Bar Apps Products & Tools (2026)

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System Color Picker
The macOS color picker supercharged
5.0 (1 review)
Interface design tools Chrome Extensions Design resources
Cellular
Connect to your phone's hotspot from your Mac seamlessly!
5.0 (1 review)
Zshistory
Simply search your last commands
5.0 (1 review)
Command line tools
Focused Task
Open source mac menubar app that helps you do deep work
5.0 (1 review)
Productivity Note and writing apps Chrome Extensions
MeetingBar
Meetings at your fingertips
5.0 (1 review)
Scheduling software Remote workforce tools Meeting software
Orbit for macOS
Time tracking & invoicing
5.0 (1 review)
Ejectify
No more “Disk Not Ejected Properly“ notifications
5.0 (1 review)
PixelSnap
The fastest tool for measuring anything on your Mac's screen
5.0 (1 review)
Screenshots and screen recording apps Design & Creative UI frameworks
TunnelBear
Really simple computer and mobile apps for private browsing
5.0 (1 review)
Web browsers VPN client Safety and Privacy platforms
Dato
Better menu bar clock with calendar and time zones
5.0 (1 review)
Calendar apps Scheduling software Time tracking apps
Hustl
Create Time-Lapse Videos of your Mac Screen
5.0 (1 review)
Screenshots and screen recording apps Design & Creative Video editing
Duet Display
Ex-Apple engineers transform your iPad into a cinema display
5.0 (1 review)
Camera apps Mobile editing apps Remote workforce tools
Pasta
Clipboard time machine
5.0 (1 review)
Productivity Note and writing apps Design & Creative
Litur
A color picker app for the world around you.
5.0 (1 review)
Interface design tools
File Cabinet Pro
File manager for the menu bar
5.0 (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.

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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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