Barbee is a lightweight but powerful menu bar management tool and an alternative to Bartender. It lets you hide or show icons in the Mac menu bar with one click, supports automatic control of icon visibility, and offers full customization of the menu bar’s appearance.

Barbee gives you full control over the Mac menu bar:

• Hide and show icons: Control the visibility of menu bar icons with just one click. You can also set items to “always hide”; these icons will not be shown even when the menu bar is temporarily expanded, making them ideal for apps that need to run in the background without disturbing you.
• Two working modes: In normal mode, hidden icons expand and appear in the menu bar alongside other visible icons; in enhanced mode, hidden icons appear in a separate floating menu, which is more convenient when there are many menu bar icons.
• Automation: Set trigger conditions to automatically show or hide specified icons. For example, you can make the battery icon appear automatically only when the battery level is low.
• Widgets and shortcuts: You can place some functions of hidden apps on the desktop as widgets, and set global keyboard shortcuts for quick access to commonly used functions.
• Flexible appearance customization: Adjust the menu bar’s appearance, such as modifying corner radius and shadows, setting colors, and even replacing the Apple logo with the classic rainbow Apple logo.
• Notch compatibility: Barbee works properly on MacBooks with a screen notch, and allows you to hide the notch area or reduce the menu bar space it occupies.