Bartender is an award-winning application tailored for macOS that has greatly enhanced your menu bar functionality over the past 10 years, giving you complete control over menu bar items, including when and which items are displayed, ensuring that menu bar items only appear when you need them.

Bartender enhances your workflow and offers more practical features through quick display, search, custom shortcut keys, and triggers.

Function Introduction

• speedQuickly access hidden menu bar items by sliding, scrolling, clicking, or hovering.
• Comprehensive accessEven at the grooves of MacBook Air and Pro screens, hidden menu bar items can be accessed.
• Bartender BarAccessing hidden menu bar items in the Bartender Bar below the menu bar is particularly suitable for users who need more space to display all menu bar applications.
• Personalized styleCreate your own menu bar by adding colors, gradients, rounded corners, borders, shadows, and more.
• groupingMerge multiple menu bar items into one customizable menu bar item for quick access to all of them.
• PresetCreate any number of presets to ensure that your menu bar items always follow the current workflow.
• triggerA brand new triggering system that automatically applies presets or displays specific menu bar items based on battery status, Wi Fi connection, location, time/date, and other conditions.
• spacingReduce the space between menu bar items to display more menu items before reaching the MacBook groove, or just for style.
• searchQuick search will change the way you use menu bar applications, instantly finding, displaying, and activating menu bar items from the keyboard.

Other features

• Add shortcut keys to any menu bar item, display and activate any menu bar item through the assigned shortcut keys.
• Menu bar spacers make your menu bar unique, allowing you to customize menu item grouping and display labels or emoticons to personalize your menu bar.
• AppleScript support, using AppleScript to display and activate menu bar items, is very suitable for advanced workflows.
• More space on small screens, swapping displayed items to reduce menu bar space occupation, allowing more menu bar items to be displayed on smaller screens.
• New menu bar item, select the position of the new menu item in the menu bar, display it instantly for access or hide to reduce interference.

frequently asked questions

• Bartender 5 can only be used on macOS Sonoma. Due to internal changes in macOS, Bartender 5 can only be designed to be compatible with the latest version of macOS.
• Bartender 5 is not free. It offers a 4-week trial period, and if you have any previous versions of the Bartender license, you can get a significant discount when upgrading.
• If you purchase Bartender 4 in July 2022, you will be entitled to a free upgrade to Bartender 5, which will accept and use your Bartender 4 license.