The only app that owns your whole menu bar, in and out
Take back your menu bar. Hide what you don't need, find anything in a keystroke, and make the bar look the way you want. Free and open source. Private by design: no tracking, no account, nothing ever leaves your Mac.
I was a long time @Bartender 5 user, but left after the acquisition. I tried several open source alternatives, including @Ice (which is what Thaw forked) but couldn't get it to work.
Hoping Thaw is the Bartender successor I've been seeking!
About Thaw on Product Hunt
“The only app that owns your whole menu bar, in and out”
Thaw launched on Product Hunt on September 3rd, 2026 and earned 112 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Take back your menu bar. Hide what you don't need, find anything in a keystroke, and make the bar look the way you want. Free and open source. Private by design: no tracking, no account, nothing ever leaves your Mac.
On the analytics side, Thaw competes within Mac, Open Source, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 226.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Thaw performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Thaw?
Thaw was hunted by Chris Messina. 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.
Chris Messina
I was a long time @Bartender 5 user, but left after the acquisition. I tried several open source alternatives, including @Ice (which is what Thaw forked) but couldn't get it to work.
Hoping Thaw is the Bartender successor I've been seeking!