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Bartender lets you organize your menu bar apps.
Features:
Features:
- Lets you tidy your menu bar apps how you want.
- See your menu bar apps when you want.
- Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
- Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
- Rearrange your menu bar items as you wish.
What's New
Version 1.2.11:
- Spotlight not in correct location in OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - In previous versions of 1.2 Spotlight would show in a bad location when hidden by Bartender and using the hotkey to launch Spotlight. This has been fixed.
- App's popups displaying in wrong location or not at all - Bartender 1.2 caused some apps including Trickster and Mint to display their popups in the wrong location when hidden by Bartender, this has been fixed.
- Apps not showing in Preferences - Some older apps that do not include a new identifier would not show in Bartender 1.2 preferences, this has also been fixed.
- Text fields and controls not selectable - With previous 1.2 versions, Bartender would prevent text boxes and controls from being selected in some menu bar apps, such as Omnipresence and Bills To Pay, this has now been fixed.
- High CPU usage - Some people have experienced occasional high CPU usage by the disnoted process, this should be fixed.
Version 1.2.11:
- Spotlight not in correct location in OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - In previous versions of 1.2 Spotlight would show in a bad location when hidden by Bartender and using the hotkey to launch Spotlight. This has been fixed.
- App's popups displaying in wrong location or not at all - Bartender 1.2 caused some apps including more...
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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Bartender lets you organize your menu bar apps.
Features:
There are loads of ways to configure Bartender to perform as you wish. Give it a go and find out.
Features:
- Lets you tidy your menu bar apps how you want.
- See your menu bar apps when you want.
- Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
- Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
- Rearrange your menu bar items as you wish.
There are loads of ways to configure Bartender to perform as you wish. Give it a go and find out.
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Noivad reviewed on 14 Feb 2014
When space on your menu bar is at a premium, Bartender come to the rescue with flexible and easy configuration, it is exactly what I wished for when menu items started getting hidden by application menu. It works well, and has gotten very stable. It was well worth the $15, especially for people that have a lot of menu items such as menu meters or iStats, Fantasical, Dropbox or Copy, 1Password, Cookie, Little Snitch, Sophos, etc. that are making items fall off or make the menu bar too cluttered.
The only feature that would be on my wish list would be intelligent menu collision detection, that moved lower priority items to the bartender bar. This is something that would make it a 5 star app, but as it is it is more than recommended, and I won’t miss such a fantasy feature.
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Hope all the wrinkles are ironed out soon. I have tons of menubar doodads and this is really the only way to manage them (other than just turning most of them off and accepting the fact that you can't rearrange most 3rd party menus).
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The glitchy one:
MacBook Pro (late 2008)
GeForce 9600M (256 MB)
External 1920x1080 display
The one that works fine:
MacBook Air (mid 2012)
Intel HD Graphics 4000
No external monitor
Perhaps I'll give it a whirl next time my newer Mac is connected to an external display and see what happens then.
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It happened on a previous version of Dropbox, even when I pulled the dropbox or fast user switching icon out of Bartender and just have it running it still happens.
The only time it does not happen is when I do run Bartender. I sure hope there is a fix on the way.
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 16 Nov 2013
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Switching to another user causes the Bartender bar to appear halfway off the left edge of the screen, and at that point it can no longer be moved until I quit and restart the app.
When a second display is connected and the new "Displays have separate Spaces" setting is enabled, one of the two displays has an odd gap in the menubar icons. If I click the gap, it disappears, but then it reappears in the same place on the other menubar.
Looks like Bartender has some 10.9 bugs that still need to be worked out.
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Llongley reviewed on 03 Oct 2013
After not hearing anything else from the dev I reinstalled as soon as the last update was posted to discover that the "folders" will now open but you are unable to select an app to launch; rather a random app will launch.
Because I do use Launcher app I had to uninstall again. I am not sure if the problem is with some combination of apps installed on my system or if this is just Bartender and OS 10.8.5. i am not the only person to encounter this as I found a number of threads about it on the forums at Apple and like i said the dev acknowledged being aware. I hope they get it fixed soon or at least are able to give some feedback on possible work arounds as I really miss this app. I for one do not think the price is over the top as this is a great app when it doesn't bug. It is a little expensive for an app that has a major bug that shows up after you've paid.
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BigJohnson reviewed on 29 Sep 2013
It has a bug which I've reported.
If you use the ⌘+Space shortcut, Spotlight opens on the LEFT side of the screen in a tiny sliver of a window about a half inch wide - I can't even see what's being typed.
I verified this by installing twice. When I revert to 1.0.9, Spotlight functions normally again.
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Spotlight also functions normally immediately after quitting BT.
Normally BT works fairly well and saves a lot of space, but there is another bug I've encountered that hasn't been fixed yet:
Sometimes after running Cocktail and rebooting, Bartender fails to hide any menu apps. Even quitting and re-opening BT doesn't help. The only way to get BT working right is to reboot again, and then BT functions properly.
Developer said "very sorry you have had this issue. It sounds very much like a bug we have been working on fixing for some time."
I downloaded a test build, but the problem remained.
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According to developer, "this is an issue in Lion and Snow Leopard with Bartender 1.2 that we have just fixed in the latest test build"
So if you're using Mountain Lion, you should be okay.
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In totally unrelated thoughts, via reading about how to tidy and geek up one's display, came across this application. Installed it solely to make the menu bar a bit tidier and nicer. That was the only reason. Sure, thought occasionally .o0(maybe there are an excessive number of menulets displayed up there) but aesthetics were honestly the only reason for trying this.
To my amazement, no kernel panics since.
Glorious, serendipitous Bartender.
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Benmac rated on 07 Mar 2014
Richard rated on 30 Jan 2014
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Viole rated on 16 Nov 2013
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Lumac52 rated on 16 Nov 2013
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Runtime rated on 16 Nov 2013
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Viole rated on 29 Sep 2013
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piquadratpi2 rated on 22 Sep 2013
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Runtime rated on 22 Sep 2013
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Viole rated on 18 Apr 2013
alexwasserman rated on 26 Mar 2013