Let your notch eat no more! ChocolateBar is a native Mac app that adds a row under your menu bar for icons hidden by the MacBook notch. As you add menubar applications like claude usage notifiers, trackers, productivity apps, the notch starts to eat up menu bar items... and at some point macOS just gives up and shoves icons behind the notch where you can't even click them. Others tries to addresses this by hiding icons. I decided to create an additional bar to show you your menubar items!
I’m Aloysius, and I built ChocolateBar because I was tired of the MacBook notch hiding my tools.
If you use menubar apps like Claude usage trackers, performance monitors, you know the frustration. The moment your menu bar gets crowded, macOS gives up and shoves your icons behind the notch. They get *eaten up*.
One way is to be minimalistic by compressing or hiding your icons with dropdowns. But I took a different approach; Instead of hiding the clutter, ChocolateBar expands the screen estate through an additional bar.
It is a lightweight, native Mac app that adds a clean row directly beneath your standard menu bar to house your overflow icons.
What it does: 1. Gives you the extra screen space lost to the notch. No more clipped icons behind the notch! 2. Customizable whether you want a full bar or a minified bar.
I hope give ChocolateBar a try and I welcome any feature request or asks!
About ChocolateBar on Product Hunt
“Add a row under your menu bar for hidden icons”
ChocolateBar launched on Product Hunt on June 9th, 2026 and earned 76 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #27 on the daily leaderboard. Let your notch eat no more! ChocolateBar is a native Mac app that adds a row under your menu bar for icons hidden by the MacBook notch. As you add menubar applications like claude usage notifiers, trackers, productivity apps, the notch starts to eat up menu bar items... and at some point macOS just gives up and shoves icons behind the notch where you can't even click them. Others tries to addresses this by hiding icons. I decided to create an additional bar to show you your menubar items!
On the analytics side, ChocolateBar competes within Productivity, Menu Bar Apps and Apple — topics that collectively have 681.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ChocolateBar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ChocolateBar?
ChocolateBar was hunted by Aloysius Lim. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of ChocolateBar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Aloysius Lim
I’m Aloysius, and I built ChocolateBar because I was tired of the MacBook notch hiding my tools.
If you use menubar apps like Claude usage trackers, performance monitors, you know the frustration. The moment your menu bar gets crowded, macOS gives up and shoves your icons behind the notch. They get *eaten up*.
One way is to be minimalistic by compressing or hiding your icons with dropdowns. But I took a different approach; Instead of hiding the clutter, ChocolateBar expands the screen estate through an additional bar.
It is a lightweight, native Mac app that adds a clean row directly beneath your standard menu bar to house your overflow icons.
What it does:
1. Gives you the extra screen space lost to the notch. No more clipped icons behind the notch!
2. Customizable whether you want a full bar or a minified bar.
I hope give ChocolateBar a try and I welcome any feature request or asks!