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6 Super Useful Menubar Apps For MacOS

Rohith Gilla on June 16, 2020

Hey everyone! In this post let's breeze ❄️ through some of my most used and favourite, free menu bar applications for Mac. Tick Tick Flow Itsycal...
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Will G

As an alternative to Flow I can recommend Just Focus it's a simpler variation. I also recommend Maccy which is a great clipboard manager! It's actively being developed while I believe Clipy hasn't been updated in a while.

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Rohith Gilla

Thanks for the suggestions.
The link you gave for Just Focus is for iPhone and iPad, is there mac app for the same?

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Will G • Edited

Whoops! I used the wrong link. I haven't really used the iOS app. Check out the mac link here apps.apple.com/us/app/just-focus/i...

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Rohith Gilla

Thanks 🙌

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Jon Randy 🎖️

BitBar is fantastic. Allows you to very easily make your own MenuBar apps to do whatever you want. A clone called Argos is also available for Linux

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Will G

Bitbar is awesome! It's also the only decent way to control cmus outside of the terminal on mac

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

My latest creation...

COVID19 BitBar

The two next to this one are BitBar too - a crypto price tracker, and a PM2.5 pollution count for the local area

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Rohith Gilla

Wow that’s crazyy 🙌

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Rohith Gilla • Edited

Awesome I heard a lot about this, I will definitely give it a try.
Thanks

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Anton Rhein

Another nice calendar menu bar App is Dato.
For Lists and Projects I use Things 3, though you have to pay it. It lets you organize Todos within 3 nesting levels. You can create recurring todos, add shopping lists like lists to a todo and also add Tags to any todo. Very nice.

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Rohith Gilla

Wow awesome I’ll definitely give it a try

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Utkarsh Talwar

I've heard praise for Things 3 as well!

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Anand Kumar

Very nice.
I use some of them already. I wasn’t aware of clocker. Looks quite useful and will give it a try.
I use this one too which helps me to hide items from the menubar. Hope it helps someone.

github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

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Rohith Gilla

Thanks, there is a similar app to that of Dozer. It is Bartender. But it's paid.
Thanks for the Dozer.

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Anand Kumar

Yes. But it is paid so I prefer to use dozer being open source.

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leob

Talking about OSX menu bar apps: Apptivate and uBar for me!

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Rohith Gilla

Wow, sure I would definitely try them. Thanks for the suggestions.

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Anand Kumar

I just tried to download clocker but link given takes me to the amphetamine. Could you please fix this. Thanks.

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Rohith Gilla

Thank you so much for pointing it out.
It is fixed now.

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Anand Kumar

Great. Thanks.

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chris-pardy

Came to plug iStatMenus. A coworky turned me on to it 5 years ago and I've never looked back. It's paid but you get calendar, world clock, cpu/mem/network monitoring, battery health checks etc.

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Rohith Gilla

Amazing.

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Keagan Van Rooyen

Great post! I have been looking for a clipboard manager to use on Mac, I will definitely be trying out clipy.

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Rohith Gilla

Thanks a lot, definitely try out clipy it’s really nice.

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Josh Puetz • Edited

This is a great list! Let me follow up with my own recommendation: Bartender (macbartender.com). It's a utility that lets you collapse all those menubar icons into a submenu!

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Rohith Gilla

Awesome thanks.
I have mentioned about Bartender in one of the comments, but I guess it’s a paid product 😅