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Barred
A lightweight, open-source menu bar manager for macOS
Barred keeps an overcrowded macOS menu bar under control. Hide rarely used icons in a collapsible secondary bar, reveal them with one click, reorder items, and choose when the bar hides itself again. It’s a small, native utility with no Dock icon, accounts, analytics, or network access.
Hey Product Hunt,
I built Barred because my Mac’s menu bar had become a crowded strip of icons I rarely needed, and the existing solutions felt heavier (or more expensive!) than the problem warranted.
Barred gives those icons somewhere to go. It tucks them into a collapsible secondary bar, keeps them one click away, and hides them again after a configurable delay. You can also reorder items, launch Barred at login, and otherwise forget it’s running.
The app is native, lightweight, and private. There are no accounts, analytics, or network requests.
This is still an early release, so I’d especially like to hear which menu bar setups cause trouble and which small features would make Barred more useful!
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About Barred on Product Hunt
“A lightweight, open-source menu bar manager for macOS”
Barred was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #45 on the daily leaderboard. Barred keeps an overcrowded macOS menu bar under control. Hide rarely used icons in a collapsible secondary bar, reveal them with one click, reorder items, and choose when the bar hides itself again. It’s a small, native utility with no Dock icon, accounts, analytics, or network access.
Barred was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), Productivity (659.6k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 197.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Barred?
Barred was hunted by Max Clayton Clowes. 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.
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