Hidden Bar 4+

Hide menubar items

Dwarves Foundation

    • 4.5 • 485 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Hidden lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.

Features:
- Launch at login
- Auto-hide after 5/10/15/30/60 seconds
- Show/hide with global shortcut
- Full menu bar mode
- RTL languages supported.

If you require any further information or feature, feel free to contact us: macos@d.foundation

What’s New

Version 1.8

The new version of Hidden bar release with a bunch of features and bugs fixed
New mode: Use the full menu bar on expanding. Users with a small screen like MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13 inch going to happy with this feature ( thanks many people raise the idea and correct the function name, you know it you :) )

Always hidden feature now doesn’t require restarting the app.

We also add a tutorial for the "Always hidden" feature.

New icons for the app, more consistent with the latest macOS (thank @p-z-l)

The Vietnamese language now supported.

Many languages add to the app. Many thanks to the people who help us localize the app.
@C-uo, @p-z-l for Japanese - Chinese
Eberhard Woentz for German
@AmrIKhudair for Arabic
@skeithtan for French (fr)
@p-z-l for RTL language support.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
485 Ratings

485 Ratings

Prof SB ,

Excellent with one major annoyance

This is a fantastic alternative to Bartender, but it has one REALLY annoying quirk. Whenever you install a new program that adds a menu icon, it automatically gets added to the Always Hidden section rather than to the Always Visible section.

This is a really strange/dumb design choice, because if you didn't know the new app was going to have a menu icon, you never will unless you happen to be looking through the hidden icons and find it. Also, since I don't install new apps super frequently, I sometimes find myself forgetting that Hidden Bar does this. As a result, I'll sometimes think the app isn't working properly or isn't running because I don't see it in the menu bar.

I have to dock it 1 star for this bizarre decision. Otherwise, it'd be a 5-star app!

Iaian7 ,

Fantastic for organising the menu bar!

I've been using Hidden Bar for a while now, and it's been exactly what I needed to keep extra menu bar clutter hidden on my ultra-wide monitor. There are a lot of utilities I'd like to keep within easy reach, but don't want to see them all the time. Hidden Bar is the answer. And unlike some alternatives, it doesn't require screen recording permissions!

However, this also means it's not particularly suitable for managing the menu bar on a mac with a notch. Hidden Bar doesn't capture additional menu bar items and display them in a drop down. It simply hides them. So if you have more items than can be shown in the limited right-hand space of a notched menu bar, it's not really helpful.

My only concern; I hope it's still supported and will be updated when/if a MacOS update breaks something.

TheSlattery ,

Great little utility

A couple small suggestions for the developers:
A note explaining how the clock might change would be helpful. For me, the clock was losing the date when the hidden icons were collapsed. I fixed this by changing the Dock & Menu Bar system preferences from "show date when space allows" to "show date always".
I don't know if this second suggestion is even possible, but... it would be great if the Hidden Bar icon (the small <) could also be hidden. Maybe just an option to pick the color of the icon so I could get something very close to the background color of the menu bar?
Again, this is a great little utility. I've had it for only a few minutes, and I already love it. Thank you so much for making this available to everyone!

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