We indexed 35 Menu Bar Apps products in 2022. The ones at the top of this list pulled the strongest community response. No editorial curation, no sponsored placement.
35 Menu Bar Apps products launched in 2022, ranked by community engagement.
We indexed 35 Menu Bar Apps products in 2022. The ones at the top of this list pulled the strongest community response. No editorial curation, no sponsored placement.
Ochi was built for people that want to quickly block distracting apps & websites, at the press of a button. Create timed filters that help you stay focused and spend your time wisely on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
MenubarX is a powerful menu bar browser. Pin web pages to the menu bar just like Native Apps. It will open up a new world for Web Apps. Do anything in the menu bar, like searching, reading, watching videos, listening to music, and playing games.
Shottr is a small, fast, human-sized screenshot app built for those who care about pixels. It was crafted with Swift, optimized for M1, and is completely free at the moment.
Later is a Mac menu bar app that clears and restores your workspace with ease. Switch off from work, tidy up your desktop before screen sharing, schedule apps for later, and more.
Scaler is a bandwidth monitor app for your macOS device. Scaler Bandwidth Monitor lives inside the Menubar. It lets you track the current, combined incoming and outgoing network traffic of your device.
Mirror iPhone/iPad to your Mac wirelessly. No need to connect iPhone/iPad to Mac with a cable. Demo what's on your iPhone/iPad in online-meeting, play games, draw live. PhoneCast 2.0 has a new rendering engine that makes it just as good as casting with cables.
a macOS quick link finder inspired by https://uiw.tf https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sn%C4%ABppet/id1603296917?mt=12 building this to remember all sorts of cool links and to hit my routines each day let me know on twitter what you'd like to see next!
Menubar controller for Apple Music, with playback controls, loving + adding current track to library and playlist browsing. Mini Player and keyboard shortcuts are also available.
Track battery levels of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac on all your devices. Battery levels are very reliable and sync over the internet. You get low-battery alerts from all devices. You can also monitor batteries of friends and family with battery sharing.
TopDrop provides a simple way to perform a range of common tasks. Simply drag files/items and TopDrops drop area will be revealed. The current actions TopDrop can perform are: -AirDrop -Message compose -Email compose -Trash And more planned in the future!
Audio Hijack is a powerful utility for recording and processing any audio on MacOS. Audio from apps like Safari or Skype, hardware like mics and mixers, and even the entire system audio output, can all be saved. If you can hear it, Audio Hijack can record it.
A simple app to record screen in timelapse on MacOs and windows. No editing or speeding up of the normal video. click on start, stop to get time-lapse video ready to be uploaded. The app also auto pauses when your computer is inactive and select from monitors.
NepTunes is a desktop accessory that allows you to see and control your music (Apple Music, Spotify) with customizable shortcuts, built-in scrobbler for Last.fm, and beautiful widgets.
The first limitless translator for MacOS, built into your status bar. It's different from the regular "left to right" translation. You can have several different languages and edit any of them. Others will listen and mirror your sentence in their language.
Hi there, we are Hovrly. A tiny and mostly invisible partner for distributed teams. Designed by those who know the value of time. Add as much time zones as you need. Time travel slider for scheduling meetings.
Quickly access documents, files, folders, and apps from the menu bar. Think of it as an alternative to Dock folders, just more powerful and customizable. Requires macOS 12.3 or later.
Stop missing a race start with this simple Formula 1 Calendar (with Practices & Qualifying) right on your menu bar!
Working late hours and weekends for no good reason? Lacking the self-control to stop? BurnoutBuddy actively blocks you from using work-related apps outside working hours to help you overcome bad habits and improve your work-life balance.
Keeping track of different time zones can be challenging. Zones simplifies that with an easy to use interface that lets you reference time in multiple cities, schedule calendar events, and setup reminders for specific times in other time zones.
Scusi adds transcription and playback speed control directly in iMessage. Just drag and drop any iMessage voice note onto the Scusi overlay to transcribe it. We got annoyed with the voice note player in iMessage, so we made it better.
Put your most important task or goal in the menu bar. Its presence there will help remind you without being annoying. The app is free and requires macOS 12.3 or later.
Hidden Bar lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look. Features: - Launch at login - Auto-hide after 5/10/15/30/60 seconds - Show/hide with global shortcut - Full menu bar mode - RTL languages supported
"Airdrop on Android? With this app you can quickly transfer files from your Android to your Mac". Stop sending files to yourself via email or Whatsapp. No need to upload to the cloud any more. Ubidrop makes sharing files across Mac and Android seamless.
ColorNoise is menu bar utility created for playback of white, pink and brown noise. Use this app for better sleep or focus.
A Mac shortcut that smartly cleans & backs up your Mac Desktop & Downloads in 1 click. Works with cloud storage like iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.
Warp allows you to save your Desktop's state and restore it in the future with a click or a keystroke.
Go digital and start your restaurant digital menu website, provide your customers with unique experience.
A tiny time tracker for your next big project. Created by freelancers for freelancers. Designed and developed in Amsterdam in 2022.
I'm dyslexic and I started to build Highlightly at university after I found that screen readers alone weren't enough. Lecturers would expect me to skim read texts but as someone with dyslexia this was very hard. So Highlightly does this for me and finds the key information from any text.
Worky is a macOS app that helps you manage and organize your desktop. Create named workspaces, quickly access files, and hide your desktop with a single click. Boost your productivity and efficiency with Worky.
Just like Apple's app switcher to switch apps, layout switcher changes the layout of your app. It mimics the behavior of Apple's CMD+TAB but instead here you'd need to assign OPT+TAB as keyboard shortcuts. Checkout video here - https://youtu.be/ZrCV6ifC-W0
Verve is a Blazingly fast and Customisable launcher for accessing and opening applications, files and documents. It serves as a replacement for popular tools such as Spotlight, Raycast, and Alfred, and is built in the Rust programming language using the Tauri.
Vivid lets you double the brightness on your MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR. Raising the maximum brightness of your screen to levels that are normally only for HDR videos. Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite focused on improved performance and less CPU usage.
⚽ World Cup Bar is a native Mac app living in your menu bar to easily see today's live matches (with live score!), yesterday's results if you missed it and tomorrow's scheduled matches.
MenuGPT is a simple and convenient app for macOS that allows users to quickly access chatGPT from their menu bar. With just a few clicks, you can open chatGPT and start chatting with the powerful language model.
The category contracted by 22% compared to 2021, moving from 45 launches to 35. Average interest score across all 2022 launches: 167. Average engagement ratio: 0.15.
More products means more competition for attention. The average drops as a category gets crowded, even if the best products keep scoring higher. That divergence is worth watching.
Use the year navigation at the top of each category page. The trends page for each category also shows top products by year in a single view.
Engagement ratio captures discussion quality. A product can game interest with a well-timed launch. It can't fake 200 substantive discussion threads. We default to engagement ratio because it's harder to inflate.
Highest community engagement at launch, measured by interest score and engagement ratio. These are traction rankings, not editorial picks.
Launch timing matters. Q1 products face different competition than Q4 products. Seasonal patterns affect both launch volume and community attention. Quarterly grouping makes comparisons fairer.