TopShelf - Pin Menu Bar Apps
Keep and pin apps on menu bar
Only for Mac
$4.99
Mac
Mac apps, websites, and mini apps in one menu bar. Click a pin or hit its hotkey, the window floats over your work, even fullscreen. Click away, it tucks back.
You're on a call and need to glance at your notes. You're in a fullscreen game and want to peek at Discord. You're writing in Notion and your AI assistant is buried three Spaces away. TopShelf gives every tool you check constantly its own pin in your menu bar: one for Mac apps, one for any website, plus a set of built-in mini apps, all behaving the same way.
Click a pin, the window floats over whatever you're working on. Click away, it tucks back. No Command-Tab roulette. No Dock clutter.
WHAT MAKES TOPSHELF DIFFERENT
Most "always on top" tools handle either Mac apps or websites, not both. TopShelf treats native apps, web pages, and quick utilities as equals: same pin, same floating window, same shelf. Pin Mail next to your Home Assistant dashboard next to ChatGPT next to your team's Notion.
PIN MAC APPS
Pick any app from your Applications folder. It shows up in the menu bar with its real icon, or upload your own. Rename any pin, swap it for a different app, or change its icon right from Settings. Click to launch it as a floating panel that stays above your current window, even over fullscreen apps. Sandboxed and signed: pins remain accessible across restarts through Apple's security-scoped bookmarks.
PIN WEBSITES
Drop in a URL, or right-click any link in Safari, Mail, or Notes and choose "Pin URL to TopShelf." The favicon is fetched automatically; open the edit window to upload your own, rename the pin, or change its URL. Each pinned site is independent, with its own size, position, scroll and login state preserved between peeks. No reloading. No re-authentication.
Web windows include real browser shortcuts: ⌘R to reload, ⌘+/-/0 to zoom, ⌘[ and ⌘] to navigate, ⌘← / ⌘→ for history, ⌘W to close.
BUILT-IN MINI APPS
Six lightweight utilities open as floating panels just like your pins:
• Snippets: save email templates, AI prompt libraries for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, code fragments, canned replies, addresses, and other boilerplate you retype constantly. Tag, group, sort, and copy to your clipboard in one click
• Notes: sticky and rich-text notes, autosaved locally
• Calculator: full expression support with persistent history
• Pomodoro: classic 25/5 focus and break cycles
• Color Picker: HEX, RGB, and HSL with sliders and one-tap copy
• Password Generator: strong passwords with custom length and character sets
Enable the ones you want.
KEYBOARD-FIRST
Assign a global hotkey to any pin. Hit it from anywhere on your Mac, even inside a fullscreen app, and the window comes forward. Hit it again, it tucks away. ⌃⌥⌘T opens Settings even if every menu bar icon is hidden.
WORKS WITH SELF-HOSTED
Pin Home Assistant, Pi-hole, a Synology or Unraid dashboard, Plex, a Tailscale-exposed service, or anything else on your LAN. HTTP and HTTPS both work.
FLOATS OVER FULLSCREEN
Most floating utilities disappear the moment another app goes fullscreen. TopShelf panels stay visible: over Final Cut, Xcode, Keynote, games, video calls.
EXPORT & BACKUP
Save your Mini App data to a single JSON file from Settings: notes, to-dos, snippets, saved colors, calculations, and (optionally) saved passwords. Nothing leaves your machine unless you save it.
DESIGNED FOR MACOS
• Native AppKit + SwiftUI. Follows your light/dark appearance automatically.
• Liquid-glass sidebar with Fade or Slide reveal.
• Redesigned Settings with sidebar navigation. Edit any pin in place.
• Hardened runtime, sandboxed, signed for the Mac App Store.
• Lightweight: no background polling, no daemon, no helper process.
• Launch at login. Hide from the Dock.
PRIVACY
TopShelf collects nothing. No accounts. No analytics. No telemetry. Apple's standard HTTPS frameworks, favicons fetched from the public web for sites you pin, everything else local. The privacy manifest declares every Required Reason API the app touches.
REQUIREMENTS
macOS 13 Ventura or later. Apple Silicon or Intel.
Built by a small indie team. No subscription, no upsell, no "pro tier." One purchase, yours.
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Introducing Snippets, a brand new mini app for the text you paste all the time.
NEW: SNIPPETS
Store the email templates, AI prompt libraries for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, code fragments, canned replies, addresses, meeting agendas, and any other boilerplate you retype every week. Copy any of them to your clipboard with one click. Tag your snippets and group by tag, sort by Recent, Newest, Oldest or A to Z, and duplicate the ones you want to riff on. Snippets lives in your menu bar like the rest of the mini apps and works fully offline. Your library is also included in Export & Backup, so it moves with you.
EDIT YOUR PINNED APPS
Click the pencil on any pinned app or website to rename it, swap it for a different app, or change its icon. No more removing and re-adding to make a small change. A dedicated "Change Icon" button now sits right below the icon in both edit windows so the option is impossible to miss, and the icon picker opens where you'd expect instead of behind the Settings window.
SETTINGS
• Hover any row in General to see a one-line explanation of what it does.
• The Export & Backup card now stretches to the same width as the rest of the page.
ALSO IN THIS RELEASE
• Pasting into a note now uses the note's own typography instead of dragging in styling from wherever you copied.
• The Calculator's result history actually works now, as advertised.
• The Settings menu bar icon respects your preference and stays hidden when you turn it off.
Thanks for using TopShelf. Questions or ideas? hello@apoiolabs.com
The developer, ANDREW JOHN CENDANA, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- ANDREW JOHN CENDANA
- Size
- 2.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © Apoio Labs

