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Hide, reveal, arrange and search menu bar items, and customize your menu bar’s appearance.
What you can do with Ice
Automatically rehide menu bar items after a delay, when the focused app changes or using Smart rehide.
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Arrange menu bar items by dragging them in the menu bar or in settings.
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Show hidden menu bar items in a separate bar below the menu bar.
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Requires Screen Recording permission for item images.
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Search for menu bar items.
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Hide application menus when they overlap revealed menu bar items.
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Customize the menu bar with solid or gradient tint, shadow, border and rounded or split shapes.
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Requires Screen Recording permission.
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Choose a custom image for Ice’s menu bar icon.
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Start Ice automatically when you log in.
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Keep Ice updated using automatic updates.
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Set different menu bar appearances for light and dark mode.
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Requires Screen Recording permission.
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Enable or disable the Ice Bar with a keyboard shortcut.
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Configure the shortcut in Hotkeys settings.
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Show all menu bar sections while Command-dragging items, or turn this behavior off.
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Enabled by default in Advanced settings.
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Run Ice in limited mode without granting Screen Recording permission.
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Accessibility permission remains required. Screen Recording enables appearance editing and item images; the Ice Bar and layout view show permission prompts without it.
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Adjust the spacing between menu bar items.
Good to know
Beta; applying spacing relaunches apps with menu bar items. Some may need manual relaunch; logging out and back in may be necessary.
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Disable or enable Ice’s context menu when right-clicking empty menu bar space.
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Available in the branch source after 0.11.12; enabled by default.
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Before you upgrade Ice
Newest firstUpdate checks, automatic checking and automatic downloading controls move from the Updates pane to `About`.
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Search omits menu bar sections that are disabled.
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The Ice Bar always draws a shadow, including when the menu bar appearance shadow option is off.
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Ice waits for modifier keys to be released before moving an item programmatically.
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The cursor is hidden while Ice returns temporarily shown items to their hidden positions, then shown again.
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The Ice Bar location named `Default` is now named `Dynamic`.
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0.11.8 adjusts menu bar shape rendering; 0.11.8.1 reverts that rendering change on screens without a notch.
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Updates can produce system notifications; checking for updates from Ice’s menu no longer leaves the update interface behind other apps.
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Ice release history 4
Choose whether right-clicking empty menu bar space opens Ice’s context menu.
Details
Advanced settings adds `Show context menu on right click`, enabled by default. Branch builds also move update settings into About and change search filtering, Ice Bar shadows and cursor handling while moving items.
Also: Update controls move to About; search skips disabled sections, the Ice Bar always has a shadow, and item movement waits for modifier-key release.
Default-branch source at 11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf, beyond release 0.11.12; requires macOS 14 or later. These changes are not part of the 0.11.12 release.
Added / inferred: Disable or enable Ice’s context menu when right-cli…Behavior changed / inferred: Keep Ice updated using automatic updates.Behavior changed / inferred: Search for menu bar items.Behavior changed / inferred: Show hidden menu bar items in a separate bar below…Behavior changed / inferred: Arrange menu bar items by dragging them in the menu…Behavior changed / inferred: Automatically rehide menu bar items after a delay,…
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- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/Events/EventManager.swi…
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/Settings/SettingsPanes/…
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/Settings/SettingsManage…
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/Settings/SettingsPanes/…
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/MenuBar/Search/MenuBarS…
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/UI/IceBar/IceBar.swift
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/11edd39115f3f43a83ae114b5348df6a0e1741cf/Ice/MenuBar/MenuBarItemMana…
Use Ice in limited mode without granting Screen Recording permission.
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The permission screen offers Continue in Limited Mode when Accessibility is granted without Screen Recording. The release also fixes mistaken modifier-key detection that prevented item movement.
Ice 0.11.12 for macOS 14 or later, available as Ice.zip from GitHub Releases; Accessibility permission remains required.
Added: Run Ice in limited mode without granting Screen Rec…Now works: Arrange menu bar items by dragging them in the menu…
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0.11.11
with 0.11.4, 0.11.5, 0.11.6, 0.11.7, 0.11.8, 0.11.8.1, 0.11.9, 0.11.10
with 0.11.4, 0.11.5, 0.11.6, 0.11.7, 0.11.8, 0.11.8.1, 0.11.9, 0.11.10
Choose different menu bar appearances for light and dark mode.
Details
Versions 0.11.4–0.11.11 add dynamic appearance, an Ice Bar hotkey and an enabled-by-default option to show all sections while Command-dragging. They rename the Ice Bar location to Dynamic and fix startup, full-screen search and item movement.
Also: Toggle the Ice Bar with a hotkey, receive update notifications and search in full screen; item dragging and rehiding fixes are included.
Ice 0.11.11, downloaded from GitHub Releases, requires macOS 14 or later.
Added: Set different menu bar appearances for light and da…Added: Enable or disable the Ice Bar with a keyboard short…Behavior changed: Show hidden menu bar items in a separate bar below…Now works: Arrange menu bar items by dragging them in the menu…Added / inferred: Show all menu bar sections while Command-dragging i…Now works: Hide menu bar items in hidden and always-hidden sec…Now works: Start Ice automatically when you log in.Now works: Automatically rehide menu bar items after a delay,…Now works: Hide application menus when they overlap revealed m…Now works: Search for menu bar items.Behavior changed: Customize the menu bar with solid or gradient tint,…Behavior changed: Keep Ice updated using automatic updates.Behavior changed
Seeded by @iluxav with Codex
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- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.10
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.6
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.4
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.5
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.9
- jordanbaird/Ice/blob/0.11.9/Ice/Settings/SettingsManagers/AdvancedSettingsManager.swift
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.7
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.11
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.8
- jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.8.1
0.11.4
Starting point
Starting point
Keep seldom-used menu bar items hidden until you need them.
Details
Existing capabilities include hidden and always-hidden sections, an Ice Bar below the menu bar, item search and drag-and-drop arrangement. Appearance controls, keyboard shortcuts and automatic rehiding are also available.
Ice 0.11.4 for macOS 14 or later; download Ice.zip and move the app into Applications. Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions are requested.
Added: Hide menu bar items in hidden and always-hidden sec…Added: Automatically rehide menu bar items after a delay,…Added: Arrange menu bar items by dragging them in the menu…Added: Show hidden menu bar items in a separate bar below…Added: Search for menu bar items.Added: Hide application menus when they overlap revealed m…Added: Customize the menu bar with solid or gradient tint,…Added: Adjust the spacing between menu bar items.Added: Choose a custom image for Ice’s menu bar icon.Added: Start Ice automatically when you log in.Added: Keep Ice updated using automatic updates.
Seeded by @iluxav with Codex