Finbar - Supercharged menu bar search for your Mac

Finbar reimagines your Mac’s built–in menu bar search with great features like fuzzy filtering and tracking of recent items — without any speed sacrifice. With Finbar, you’ll unlock the menu bar’s true potential as a native, ubiquitous command palette.

Hello Product Hunt! My name’s Roey and I’m the independent developer behind Finbar. Yes, your Mac’s built–in menu bar search capabilities, and in fact, I was a devout user of this feature myself for a long time. While perfectly serviceable right out of the box, I started to feel there’s a lot to be desired with the way it currently works. Here’s a non–exhaustive list: - It has no fuzzy searching. - In addition to menu items, it searches for topics in the app’s “help books”, and this can hinder performance significantly. - It doesn’t remember your recently used items. - It offers no control over excluding or including specific menu items from search results (for example, the “” menu item is never searched — with no way of changing that). These omissions became even more evident as command palettes gained popularity as a graphical user interface pattern, and many apps started to include their own. All of this and more persuaded me to start building Finbar. Primarily due to personal need (nowadays, I use Finbar incessantly and can’t imagine my workflow without it), but also out of true passion for great, native macOS applications. It’s a labor of love I built over nights and weekends alongside my day job as front–end developer. Try it for free right now, and if you find it useful, it’s a one-time purchase of just $9.99. Please enjoy it as much as I do!