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 provides more practical features through features such as quick display, search, custom shortcuts, and triggers.

Function Introduction

1. speedQuickly access hidden menu bar items by sliding, scrolling through the menu bar, clicking, or hovering.
2. Full AccessEven in the grooves of MacBook Air and Pro screens, hidden menu bar items can be accessed.
3. 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.
4. Personalized styleCreate your own menu bar by adding colors, gradients, rounded corners, borders, shadows, and more.
5. groupingMerge multiple menu bar items into a customizable menu bar item, providing quick access to all items within it.
6. PresetCreate any number of presets to ensure that your menu bar items always conform to the current workflow.
7. triggerA brand new triggering system that automatically applies preset or displays specific menu bar items based on battery status, Wi Fi connection, location, time/date, and other conditions.
8. spacingReduce the space between menu bar items to display more menu items before reaching the MacBook slot, or just for style.
9. searchQuick search will change the way you use menu bar applications, instantly finding, displaying, and activating menu bar items from the keyboard.

Other characteristics

1. Add shortcut keys to any menu bar item, and display and activate any menu bar item through the assigned shortcut keys.
2. 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.
3. AppleScript support, using AppleScript to display and activate menu bar items, is very suitable for advanced workflows.
4. 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.
5. New menu bar item, select the position of the new menu item in the menu bar, instantly display for access or hide to reduce interference.

frequently asked questions

1. 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.
2. Bartender 5 is not free. It offers a 4-week trial period, and if you have a license for any previous version of Bartender, you can get a significant discount when upgrading.
3. 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.