Many apps offer quick access to features via menu bar items at the top right of your screen. Super-useful! But use too many and you end up with a cluttered menu bar. With Hidden Bar, you can hide the ones you don’t need to see all the time—but reveal them with a click. It also lets you rearrange menu items you normally can’t.

What we love: How easy it is to clean up your menu bar. To hide an item, simply Command-drag it to the left of Hidden Bar’s menu icon (>); drag items you want to see all the time to the right of it. (Use the same process to arrange items in exactly the order you want.) When you’re done, clicking “>” toggles between your curated menu bar and the complete one.

Quick tip: Need to peek at one of your hidden items—say, a weather display? Configure Hidden Bar’s keyboard shortcut, which lets you quickly show the hidden section (and then re-hide it). We suggest Shift-Control-| because it uses, ahem, a bar.

Meet the creator: Hidden Bar started as a team project at developer Superbits to learn macOS development. A favourite feature is the “Always hidden” option (explained in the app’s preferences window), which lets you completely hide menu items you never want to see—they won’t even show up in the expanded mode.