Common Bar

A tidy menu bar.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

A tidy menu bar.

Every icon left of your folders stays off the menu bar, clear of the notch. Click a folder to see them, each with its app’s icon and name.

Type to find one.

Start typing to narrow the list. Arrows, Return and Escape work as in any menu, without taking focus from the app you’re in.

Opens beside the folder.

Choose an icon and its own menu opens under the folder. When you’re done, the icon goes back where it was.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonBar.zip, unzip it, and move Common Bar to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Bar.
  3. Set it up Click the More folder and choose an icon to open it.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: brew install --cask oddurs/common-tools/common-bar or curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- bar. Every step, with checksums, is in the docs.

More Common Tools.

Common Command Press ⌥Space, type a few letters, press Return: apps, System Settings panes, files, sums, and web searches in one quiet panel. Common Shot Press ⇧⌘2, drag over what you want, and paste it: into a chat, a terminal, a pull request, or a document. Common Stats CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, storage, and battery in the menu bar, with a real menu of graphs under it. Common Keys Fixes words typed on the wrong keyboard layout, for every keyboard macOS has, and keeps each app on the language you write there. Common Color Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and the color is on the clipboard as hex, CSS, SwiftUI, or AppKit, converted correctly from the display’s color space. Common Battery The level, the time left, what the battery is doing, and alerts when it runs low or reaches your charge level. Common Glyph A character, a sticker, an emoji, an animated GIF, or a word: as many as you like, each its own menu bar item.