Menu Bar Apps Products & Tools (2026)

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Rest Now 2.0 - Screen Break Timer
Open source screen break timer for macOS
Switchy for Mac
Switch your Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse between Macs
Gutta
A tiny, offline task list for your Mac menu bar
ScreenMark
Menu bar app for live annotations, whiteboard overlay + more
Screenshots and screen recording apps
VPN Peek
See if your VPN is actually working from your menu bar
Engineering & Development Security software
Agents Never Sleep
Agents keep running with the lid closed
Caplio
Launched this month
Find, organize, and reuse every image on your Mac
Productivity
Tether
Launched this month
A ball for boring meetings to keep you busy
Toys
Tiles
Launched this month
Turning desktop chaos into curated spaces.
App switcher
Captain Kill Switch
Launched this month
Close all your open apps in one click
App switcher
Treebar
Treebar gives you one view of every active worktree
Git clients
Fide Island
Launched this month
Make your MacBook notch actually useful
App switcher
Skud
Launched this month
Menubar file delivery with your brand and tracking
File storage and sharing apps
LinkFlick
Launched this month
Stop re-pairing your Magic Keyboard between Macs
Lyrimuse
Launched this month
Word-synced macOS lyrics that pick the right version

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Product Hunt

What's in your dock?

I was recently reminded of @Dockhunt and how fun it was to see what kinds of apps different folks kept in their dock. I remember it being a cool way to discover some new products I hadn't seen before. I'm also just a big fan of desktop apps over web apps. I find it a lot easier to stay focused when I'm flipping between apps vs flipping between tabs.

These are the apps in my dock:

@Google Chrome - Pretty basic. I've really been considering switching over to @Horse though.
@Slack - The de facto option.
@Superhuman - Maybe the fastest I've become a fan of a product. I think I was pushing it on others within a few hours.
@Notion - Great for documentation and collaborating. I also use it personally for tracking books I read and video games I play, along with tracking personal projects.
Notion Calendar - The menu bar aspect of this is really what sold me. It makes it so much easier to stay on top of my meetings every day.
@Linear - We just recently switched over to Linear here at @Product Hunt and I've been loving it. Pro tip: if you prefer the desktop app, there's a setting to open links in the app, but you can only set that option through the web version.
@iTerm2 - I've tried others, but this is my favorite. This + @Neovim is just
@Claude by Anthropic - This has been my LLM of choice for a while, and I really like having it as a desktop app. Especially the keyboard shortcut to quickly bring it up and ask something.
@Tandem - Super easy to stay in touch and sync with teammates. Incredibly useful for a remote team.
@Spotify - I typically have a YouTube video on in the background, but if I'm writing or doing something more focused, I'll typically have some kind of Jazz going.

40 comments•522 views

1yr ago

Audio Writer iOS

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5 comments•48 views

4yr ago

Pulse Island

I turned the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island

Every MacBook since 2021 has a notch, and on macOS it does absolutely nothing. On iPhone, the same cutout became the most useful strip on the screen.

That gap bothered me, so I built Pulse Island, a native macOS app that turns the notch into a live, interactive island.

10 comments•128 views

2mo ago

PopTask - AI Powered Menu Bar To-do List

my mac app didn't open at all for 4 months and i had no idea

there's no changelog for PopTask anywhere, the app store "what's new" box is read by roughly nobody, so from now on every update lands in this thread, small ones as replies, bigger ones as their own post

what's shipped since july:

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2mo ago

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