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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.

Download · Install · Features · Integrations · Contributing

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Why Thaw

Free, and free to keep. No purchase, no subscription, and no upgrade fee when macOS ships a new version.
Open source, GPL-3.0. Read the code, build it yourself, fork it.
No tracking, no account. No analytics, no telemetry, no sign-up.
Screen Recording is optional. Hiding, revealing, and rearranging items all work without it, and any item Thaw cannot capture is drawn as its app's icon instead. Grant it if you want live item previews and wallpaper-derived tinting.
Light on your Mac. A small, steady memory footprint.
Signed and notarized by Apple, with verifiable releases, the OpenSSF Best Practices Gold badge, and an OpenSSF Scorecard for supply-chain posture.

Features

Declutter your menu bar: hide the icons you do not need and keep an always-hidden section for the rest
Reveal items fast: hover, click, scroll or swipe, or press a hotkey
Search and jump: find any menu bar item from the keyboard
Triggers: reveal an item when a condition is met, from the battery level to the active Focus, the Wi-Fi network, or a script's exit code
Switch layouts by context: bind a profile to a display, to a Space, or to a Focus filter
Zen mode: one action conceals every section and locks the reveal gestures, then puts it all back. It can engage on its own while you present or share your screen
Style the bar: tint, gradient, shadow, border, and custom shapes, per light/dark mode and per Space
Built for modern macOS: supports macOS 26 and 27, including notch-friendly layouts via the Thaw Bar

Full feature list: 40+ more, including groups, spacers, profiles, triggers, and hotkeys

Menu bar item management

Hide menu bar items
"Always-hidden" menu bar section
Show hidden menu bar items when hovering over the menu bar
Show hidden menu bar items when an empty area in the menu bar is clicked
Show hidden menu bar items by scrolling or swiping in the menu bar
Automatically rehide menu bar items
Hide application menus when they overlap with shown menu bar items
Drag and drop interface to arrange individual menu bar items
Groups that keep related items together, so they move and hide as one unit even across sections
Spacer items of your own, with adjustable width and colour
Activate an item straight from the layout editor
Surface a hidden item when its icon starts blinking for attention
Display hidden menu bar items in a separate bar (e.g. for MacBooks with the notch)
Search menu bar items
Menu bar item spacing
Draw items as their owning app's icon instead of a live capture

Menu bar appearance

Menu bar tint (solid and gradient)
Adaptive tint sampled from the wallpaper, either as one average colour or as a gradient built from its two most dominant colours
Wallpaper changes re-tint the bar right away
Menu bar shadow
Menu bar border
Custom menu bar shapes (rounded, split, and notch-aware)
Remove background behind menu bar (macOS setting)
Different settings for light/dark mode
Per-Space appearance overrides
A separate shape, tint, and border for the Thaw Bar, instead of inheriting the menu bar's

Profiles

Save the whole configuration as a profile and switch between profiles instantly
Bind a profile to a display, to a Space, or to a Focus filter
Import and export profiles for backup or sharing
Pre and post apply script hooks, globally or per profile

Triggers

Reveal an item when a condition is met, or hide it instead. Battery and power conditions are always available. Every other condition ships switched off and is enabled one at a time from Developer settings, and some are still marked Experimental.

Frontmost app, app running
Network connectivity, VPN, Wi-Fi network, Bluetooth device, audio output device
External display, time schedule, location
Focus / Do Not Disturb, Energy Mode, thermal pressure
Camera or microphone in use, script result
A watched icon changing, or blinking for attention
Conditions combined with AND / OR, plus an option to invert the action

Hotkeys

Toggle individual menu bar sections
Show the search panel
Enable/disable the Thaw Bar
Show/hide section divider icons
Toggle application menus
Toggle automatic rehiding
Toggle zen mode
Open a specific menu bar item's menu
Switch between profiles

Settings and maintenance

Simple Mode, which replaces the sidebar with one curated page and keeps every other pane's configuration intact
One per-display section driven by a picker, rather than a repeated block per display
A Tools pane for diagnostic logging, onboarding replay, per-app language override, cache clearing, and resets for settings, Control Center, the layout, and permissions

Screenshots

_{Item layout}	_{Show hidden items below the menu bar}
_{Drag-and-drop arrangement}	_{Customize the appearance}
_{Menu bar item search}

Integrations

Every core action is a thaw:// deep link, so Thaw plugs into the launcher you already use.

Raycast: official extension. Toggle sections, open search, and change settings without leaving Raycast.
Droppy: pair Thaw with Droppy's shelf and extras for a full menu bar suite.
Anything else: Alfred, Shortcuts, Keyboard Maestro, BetterTouchTool, or a shell script.

open "thaw://toggle-hidden"
open "thaw://search"
open "thaw://open-settings"

Full reference, including reading and writing settings: docs/URI_SCHEMES.md.

Install

brew install thaw        # stable
brew install thaw@beta   # beta, or stable if it is newer

Or grab the .dmg from the latest release and drag Thaw to Applications.

Needs macOS 26+. Thaw asks for Accessibility on first launch to move menu bar items; Screen Recording is optional. Stuck? See Frequent issues.

Languages

Thaw speaks 20 languages, thanks to translators around the world.

🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia	🇨🇿 Čeština	🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Deutsch	🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English
🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Español	🇫🇷 Français	🇮🇹 Italiano	🇭🇺 Magyar
🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Nederlands	🇵🇱 Polski	🇧🇷 Português (Brasil)	🇹🇷 Türkçe
🇷🇺 Русский	🇺🇦 Українська^*	🇹🇭 ภาษาไทย	🇻🇳 Tiếng Việt^*
🇯🇵 日本語	🇰🇷 한국어	🇨🇳 简体中文	🇹🇼 正體中文

Missing yours, or spotted something off? Translate Thaw on Crowdin. You can request new languages there too. Everyone who has translated Thaw is named in Credits.

_{* Currently only in the development branch.}

Contributors

This project exists thanks to the awesome people who contribute code and documentation. Translations happen on Crowdin rather than in git, so translators are credited separately in Credits.

Want to contribute? Start with Ways to contribute. Pull requests are welcome against the development branch (see Contributing).

Project documentation

License

Thaw is available under the GPL-3.0 license.