The menu bar manager for macOS
Ice hides the menu bar items you don't need, brings them back when you want them, and lets you lay the bar out your way. A faithful, open-source rebuild — now running on macOS 26 and 27.
Requires macOS 26 or later · Universal · Open source (GPLv3)
Everything you need to tidy, arrange, and reveal your menu bar — and nothing you don't.
Tuck away the icons you rarely use behind a divider, so your menu bar stays clean and focused.
Move hidden items into a separate bar that appears only when you call it — no clutter, nothing lost.
Reveal hidden items with a click, a global hotkey, or by hovering the edge — whichever you prefer.
Reorder items and control the spacing between them, so the bar looks exactly how you like it.
Bind shortcuts to toggle visibility, and tweak the menu bar's tint, shadow, and border to taste.
The full source is on GitHub under the GPLv3 — free to inspect, build, and trust. No ads, no tracking.
Ice lives in your menu bar and gets out of your way.
Get Ice from GitHub or Homebrew and open it — it settles quietly into your menu bar.
⌘-drag the divider so the items to its left stay hidden until you need them.
Click the Ice icon or press your hotkey to show everything, then let it auto-hide again.
Same free, open-source app. Pick whichever fits how you work.
Free forever · GPLv3 licensed
.app download, no account neededInstall & update from the command line
brew install --cask teddychan/tap/ice-2
brew upgrade --caskbrew uninstall --cask ice-2In tribute
Ice is an independent, open-source rebuild of Ice, the menu bar manager originally created by Jordan Baird. This fork carries it forward to support modern macOS. Released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.