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Tap the 🦍 to tuck them away.
HIDEBAR
a quieter menu bar for your Mac
[hem] your menu bar has too many icons in it. this hides them. that is the entire app.
[lem] which ones are mine
macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and newer)
It won't run on older Intel Macs. Not sure which you have? Click the Apple logo at the very top-left of your screen, choose About This Mac, and look at the line marked Chip — if it says Apple M1, M2, M3 or M4, you're good.
First time you open it
Your Mac will refuse to open HideBar the first time, and say it “cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.” That is normal, and it is not a warning about this app specifically — it's what your Mac says about any app that didn't come from the App Store. You only have to get past it once.
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Unzip it and put it in Applications
Double-click the file you just downloaded. You'll get an app called HideBar. Drag it into your Applications folder.
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Right-click it, choose Open
Don't double-click it. Right-click on HideBar and pick Open from the menu. If your mouse or trackpad has no right button, hold down the Control key and click it instead.
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Click Open again
A box appears saying your Mac can't check the app. This time it has an Open button. Click it. HideBar starts, and from then on it opens like anything else.
No Open button in that box?
Newer Macs often don't show one. Do this instead: click the Apple logo at the very top-left of your screen, choose System Settings, click Privacy & Security in the sidebar, and scroll down. There'll be a line about HideBar being blocked, with a button next to it that says Open Anyway. Click that, confirm, and then open HideBar again.
Where did it go?
HideBar has no window and no icon in the Dock — it lives up in the menu bar. Look along the top-right of your screen for a small 🦍. That's it. Click it to hide and show your icons, and right-click it for settings.
What it does
HideBar tidies the row of little icons along the top of your Mac screen. You drag the ones you'd rather not look at past its divider, they slide out of sight, and one click brings them all back.
It never looks at your screen to do this. Apps like it usually ask for permission to record your display; HideBar is built so it never needs to ask.