![]() ![]() When this hotkey is activated, the menu bar item shows and activates. Speaking of keyboards, Bartender now also lets you assign hotkeys to any menu bar item. It now has a Spotlight-like interface with fuzzy search to very quickly find, show and activate any of your menu bar items, all from your keyboard. It also has some excellent built-in triggers such as showing Battery when on battery power or showing Timemachine when backing up.īartenders’ search ability has dramatically improved. Such as image comparisons, which shows a menu bar item when it matches a particular state, or even via a script such as showing items when on a VPN or when your Airpods are connected. ![]() These allow you to add spacers between groups of menu bar items that can either be just a configurable space, text, or even emoji, great for grouping menu bar items into similar groups.īartender also brings a host of ways to improve your interaction with menu bar items with new triggers for showing menu bar items when they need your attention. Bartender makes this configurable, with spacing the same as in previous macOS versions or even no spacing so that you can fit in all your menu bar apps.īartender 4 also introduced menu bar spacers. MacOS Big Sur increased the menu bar item spacing, which looks nice however, it reduces the usable space. Speaking of lots of menu bar items, Bartender 4 also lets you reduce the amount of space between the menu bar items, allowing your space for more. It lets you hide any menu bar items you want but still quickly access them in a variety of ways, such as revealing your hidden menu bar items instantly when you mouse over the menu bar, or in its Bartender Bar beneath the menu bar, this is great if you have lots of menu bar items that wouldn’t fit easily in the menu bar itself. If you have not yet purchased a license, your 4 week trial of Bartender 4 will start now.īartender 4 is Bartenders’ biggest update yet with support for macOS Big Sur and Apple M1, it also boasts a load of new features and updates to its core abilities making it the best version yet.īartender gives you total control over your menu bar items (the icons at the right of your menu bar). This means Bartender 4 has now been thoroughly tested by all you great users (thank you!) and I am confident it works as expected on all the many different user setups. This does not mean I am stopping working on Bartender 4, anything but! As I still have many exciting features I want to add. I am super excited to announce that with this release Bartender 4 has finished its public beta and is released today. It is free to try with the trial version, allowing you to get a full feel for how it works with a variety of different icons.Įditors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Bartender for Mac 1.2.11.Bartender 4 Officially Released 19 April 2021 It's fast and easy to set up and offers a range of options to keep your menu bar under control. If you want to control how and when your icons appear in the menu bar, consider downloading Bartender for Mac. It is fast and easy to access all of these menus, the changes happen instantly, and we noticed no slowdown or battery life loss as you'll see with some menu bar managers. ![]() You could, in effect, remove all of the icons from the menu bar if you so choose, having them appear only when something changes and you need to see the icon. The system icons will be separated from the running icons and for each you can choose where it shows up, if it is visible, and whether it will appear when a change is made that affects it. ![]() After this is done, however, you can open the Preferences menu and start managing your icons. Installation of Bartender is easy and fast, though the app will need to install a secondary file in the background to run properly. Sitting in the menu bar, itself, Bartender is low profile and uses minimal memory to perform basic functions like hiding icons, moving them into the separate Bartender menu, and setting notifications to show the items only when necessary. Bartender allows you to control more of the icons at the top of your computer's menu bar, including system icons that are typically off limits, making it a very useful app for those with limited space. ![]()
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