Launching today
ChocolateBar
Add a row under your menu bar for hidden icons
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Add a row under your menu bar for hidden icons
25 followers
Let your notch eat no more! ChocolateBar is a native Mac app that adds a row under your menu bar for icons hidden by the MacBook notch. As you add menubar applications like claude usage notifiers, trackers, productivity apps, the notch starts to eat up menu bar items... and at some point macOS just gives up and shoves icons behind the notch where you can't even click them. Others tries to addresses this by hiding icons. I decided to create an additional bar to show you your menubar items!
ChocolateBar
I’m Aloysius, and I built ChocolateBar because I was tired of the MacBook notch hiding my tools.
If you use menubar apps like Claude usage trackers, performance monitors, you know the frustration. The moment your menu bar gets crowded, macOS gives up and shoves your icons behind the notch. They get *eaten up*.
One way is to be minimalistic by compressing or hiding your icons with dropdowns. But I took a different approach; Instead of hiding the clutter, ChocolateBar expands the screen estate through an additional bar.
It is a lightweight, native Mac app that adds a clean row directly beneath your standard menu bar to house your overflow icons.
What it does:
1. Gives you the extra screen space lost to the notch. No more clipped icons behind the notch!
2. Customizable whether you want a full bar or a minified bar.
I hope give ChocolateBar a try and I welcome any feature request or asks!