Bartender 3 lets you organize your menu bar icons, by hiding them, rearranging them, show hidden items with a click or keyboard shortcut and have icons show when they update.

There are many ways to configure Bartender as you wish.
Give it a go and find out.

New! in Bartender 3

macOS Mojave Ready

Bartender 3 fully supports macOS Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave.

Updated UI for modern macOS

The Bartender Bar now displays in the menu bar, making it look like part of macOS.

Keyboard navigate menu items

With Bartender 3 you can keyboard navigate menu items simply use the hotkey to activate then arrow through them and press return to select.

Search all menu items

You can now search all menu items, allowing you quick access to a menu item without looking for it. Simply use the hotkey to activate or control click the Bartender menu item and start typing.

Completely rewritten for modern macOS

Bartender 3 has been rewritten for modern macOS. Using the latest technologies and best practices Bartender 3 is more reliable, capable and lays the foundation for future innovations.

Bartender 3 Features

Take control of your menu bar icons

With Bartender you can choose which apps stay in the menu bar, are displayed in the Bartender Bar or are hidden completely.

Hidden menu bar icons

Hidden items can be shown whenever you want, by clicking on the Bartender Icon or via a hot key.

Show menu bar icons in the menu bar when they update

Set up apps to display their menu bar icons in the menu bar for a period of time when they update. Allowing you to see whats happening, or take important action.

Autohide

Bartender can automatically hide menu bar icons again when you click on another app

Works with Dark mode

Bartender works great in light or dark mode

Keyboard Navigate your menu bar icons

Keyboard navigate menu icons; simply use the hotkey to activate then arrow through them and press return to select.

Search menu bar icons

You can search the all menu icons, allowing you quick access to a menu icons without looking for it. Simply use the hotkey or control click the Bartender menu icon to activate search and start typing.

Order your menu bar icons

With Bartender you can set the order of the menu bar items, both in the menu bar and the hidden items, simply by ⌘+dragging the items. So your menu bar items are always in the order you want.

Minimalism

If you want a really clean look and privacy, Bartender can also be hidden.

What’s New in Bartender 3.1.6

• Release notes not available at the time of this post.

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Bartender lets you organize your menu-bar apps by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender’s Bar. You can display the full menu bar, set options to have menu-bar items show in the menu bar when they have updated, or have them always visible in Bartender’s Bar.

Features

• Lets you tidy your menubar apps how you want.
• See your menubar apps when you want.
• Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
• Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
• Rearrange your menubar items as you wish.

What’s New in Bartender 3.1.5

New Features / Improvements

Notification Center can now be hidden

Its been a long time coming, and now Notification Center can now be set to “Always Hide” or “Always Show”.

macOS 10.15 Catalina Support

This release will now ask the user for the new “Screen Recording” permission required for Bartender to work.
It needs this permission so that it can capture images of the menu bar items, it does this for 3 reasons, to make “show for updates” work, to display the menu items in preferences, and to create a smooth transition when switching states.

Bug Fixes

Rare crash fixes

We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, this build now has fixes to hopefully prevent the crash, or give us some more information about it.

Crashing when macOS does not apply Accessibility Permission Correctly

There is a bug in macOS that can cause Accessibility permissions to fail for an app, even though it has been setup correctly and is reported as such. Bartender now tries to detect this and help the user fix the issue by toggling the permission.

Item position being lost

There is a another bug in macOS that can cause menu items to appear overlapped and loose there order, Bartender has always tried to detect this and recover the positioning (but not the order), some users are experiencing the order of there items being lost, Changes have been made to try and prevent this.

UI layout issues on Permissions Screens

The permissions screens had layout issues in macOS version older than 10.15, this has been fixed.

Previous Test Build Crash

Previous test builds introduced a possible crash, more work has been done to fix this.

Hiding left menu not activating

Some users have experienced issues with the left menu not being hidden when needed, work has been done to fix this.

Bartender was not added to permissions list

On macOS Catalina, Bartender was not getting added to the screen capture list in preferences before prompting the user, this has been fixed.

Some UI elements not correct colour in dark mode

These should now all work correctly in Dark mode.

Apps without Display Name would be not be displayed correctly

Apps that do not have a display name could end up without a name in Bartender Preferences, this has now been fixed.

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