Hide and organize menu bar icons on your Mac. The best free Bartender alternative — also a great Hidden Bar and Vanilla alternative — focused on stability and a smooth, distraction-free experience.
✅ Fully supports macOS 27
Note
Ice is in active development. Grab the latest build from the releases page.
Tip
✅ Fully supports macOS 27 — tested and ready for the latest macOS, all the way back to macOS 14 Sonoma.
Homebrew (recommended — updates with brew upgrade):
brew tap cavaldos/tap
brew install cavaldos/tap/iceManual:
- Download
Ice.zipfrom the latest release. - Unzip it and move
Ice.appinto/Applications. - Clear the quarantine flag — releases are ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so Gatekeeper would otherwise block the first launch:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Ice.appThen open Ice and grant Accessibility and Screen Recording in System Settings (see Permissions).
For local development, see script/README.md.
Homebrew:
brew uninstall --cask cavaldos/tap/icebrew uninstall --cask --zap cavaldos/tap/iceManual: quit Ice, then drag Ice.app out of /Applications to the Trash. To also remove preferences, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.jordanbaird.Ice.plist.
Always-Hidden section demo — hide menu bar icons and reveal on hover
Show and hide menu bar icons demo
Fullscreen settings
| Ice Bar — second menu bar for notched MacBooks | Drag-and-drop menu bar layout |
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| Menu bar appearance and theme settings | Menu bar item spacing |
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✅ macOS 27 fully supported — works on macOS 14 Sonoma and later, including Sequoia, Tahoe, and macOS 27. If you need a similar tool for macOS 13 Ventura or earlier, check out Ice 0.11.x.
Contributions are welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines before submitting a pull request.
A fork of Ice by Jordan Baird — huge thanks for the original work this project builds on.
GPL-3.0 — Ice is and will always remain open-source and free.