Menu bar apps for Mac

Apps with a menu bar interface keep controls, status information, or small tools accessible from the top of your Mac’s screen. They can help you check clocks, manage tasks and timers, control playback, or monitor activity without opening a main window.

Nudge

Window manager for arranging Mac windows with customizable keyboard shortcuts or screen-edge dragging.

Window management

TinyOwl

Batch image compression, resizing, and conversion with reusable workflows on Apple silicon Macs.

Automation Image compression

RadioStation

Live internet radio player with worldwide stations and up to 30 minutes of rewind.

Platter

Desktop music player with a CD-player interface for Apple Music and Spotify.

Nightcap

Sleep timer that gradually dims the screen and lowers volume before sleep or shutdown.

Timers and alarms

TokenBar

Developer Tools

Menu bar app for monitoring AI usage limits, reset times, and spending across multiple providers.

AI agent monitoring

DevCleaner

Developer Tools

Developer cleanup utility for caches and build artifacts, with file sizes and risk ratings.

Teebots

AI bot workspace for coordinating tasks in group chats, with separate memory for each bot.

AI assistant Automation

Murmurtale

Dictation app for fiction writers that formats spoken scenes with quoted dialogue and paragraph breaks.

Dictation Writing

Aloud

Text-to-speech app for documents, articles, and images, with word-by-word highlighting.

Auto Ducking

Menu bar utility that lowers system volume during microphone use and restores it afterward.

Automation Volume control

Klack

Typing sound utility that adds mechanical keyboard audio with a choice of switch sounds.

Keyboard customization