Menu Bar Apps Tools

Glance at traffic. Leave on time. CommuteBar puts live commute times visibly on your Mac menu bar, no app-switching required. Save multiple destinations like office, school, gym. Schedule automatic switching for recurring commutes and get leave soon / leave now indicators and optional notifications. You also get route comparison, delayed traffic alerts and different travel modes.

Fix spelling and grammar anywhere on your Mac. Select text, press the shortcut, and the corrected version replaces it where it sits. A second shortcut strips the AI slop out of anything that reads like a machine wrote it. @Mentions, dates and times are untouched. It runs on the model built into macOS. Nothing you select is uploaded. Needs macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence.

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.

Roadie is a menu-bar audio switcher for Mac. Rank microphones and speakers once, and it automatically restores the best available device after reconnects, wake, login, or macOS changes. Manual choices still win until the device set changes. Pause anytime, avoid unwanted outputs, and stay private: routing runs locally and Roadie never captures audio.

A ball hangs from your Mac menu bar on an elastic tether. Drag it, fling it, slingshot it. It bounces off your actual app windows, rolls along their edges and settles into the Dock. Cut the rope and it goes loose across the desktop. Real physics, not a canned animation, so it never does the same thing twice. One key hides it the instant somebody says your name. No account, no subscription, nothing leaves your Mac.

Caplio turns scattered screenshots and images into a private, searchable library on your Mac. Think of it as a lightweight asset manager for screenshots and everyday images. Add your folders, and Caplio automatically watches, indexes, and extracts text with on-device OCR. Browse by timeline, search, or category; organize files automatically, then drag any image straight into another app. No uploads or cloud OCR. Your images stay on your Mac.

Skud lives in your Mac menubar. Drop any file → uploads, copies a branded link, tracks who opens it. Custom brand (logo, colour, cover image), password protection, expiration control. Free for 1 GB deliveries. Built for designers and studios who want ownership.

Streamline your daily workflow and eliminate window clutter with Tiles, the ultimate workspace manager for macOS. Whether you're transitioning from deep coding sessions to client meetings, or juggling research, writing, and design tools, Tiles lets you capture your ideal desktop layout's and bring them back with a single click, keyboard shortcut, or widget.

NotchDrop v2 turns your MacBook notch into a smarter, more useful workspace. Access productivity tools, screen recording and editing, file sharing, system stats, live wallpapers, calendar, calculator, terminal tools, and more all directly from the notch. This update introduces **NotchDrop Studio**, a built-in screen recording editor, along with Live Wallpaper, Draw Signature, Keep Awake, improved file sharing with AirDrop and local networks, customizable themes, and a redesigned interface.

Fide Island turns your MacBook notch into a compact, fluid command surface. Control media, check your calendar, keep files and clipboard items close, run quick calculations, and see system feedback - without leaving what you're doing.

Codex working across 5 worktrees? Treebar shows you where it is, what’s changing, and how many agents are working, all from your MacBook notch. Treebar watches Git and Codex, to see where and what it's working on. Made this months ago because I kept losing track of where Codex was working. Finally decided to ship it. I’m also open sourcing the core soon.

ANCBuddy puts ANC mode and battery status for Bose QuietComfort Ultra devices into the macOS menu bar so you can toggle modes and monitor battery without opening another app. Free trial available; designed for commuters and focus-first workflows. Looking for feedback from QC Ultra users on macOS.

A macOS menu bar app that keeps your agents AI awake even if with lid closed. No more keeping your laptop half-open or carrying it around in weird ways. Stop this madness 🙅‍♂️, close the lid.

Control your Mac from iPhone with touchpad, keyboard, screen mirroring, files, and Mackie AI. Pair over Wi-Fi or use Online Access from anywhere.

Keep your favorite sites close at hand, right from your Mac's menu bar.

Solving the three biggest pain points in meeting software: privacy, friction, and cost. By running speech-to-text entirely on-device, your confidential discussions never leave your hardware, ensuring total data privacy. It operates invisibly without sending an awkward bot into your attendee list, capturing system audio directly across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

Crew Tower lives in your MacBook notch and watches every AI coding agent you run: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Qwen, OpenCode and more. When an agent needs permission, the request shows up in the notch with full context: the exact command, the file edit, the question. Approve or deny in one click, without touching the terminal. See every session at once, working, waiting or done. Jump straight to the right terminal window when one needs you. Nothing stalls silently.

AirBuddy 3 brings over 150 new features and improvements, including a new design, powerful new ways to keep an eye on your devices, deeper media integration, revamped Magic Handoff, and many new options for automation and customization.

A default handler for multiple file types that opens the right editor — Velja/Choosy for files. Full control of any file type and what editor(s) open it, with radial picker and custom rules.

Joy is a macOS menu bar app that throws confetti the moment you hit a milestone - GitHub stars, Stripe sales, Docker Hub pulls, and more. Celebrate every win automatically.

Switchy is a macOS menu bar app that automatically discovers nearby Macs on your local network, so you can connect to your magic devices without disconnecting and reconnecting or having to use a cable. It's useful for users who have multiple Macs or MacBooks (i.e work and personal) but want to use one set of magic accessories.