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Mac App

Ice

Hide, rearrange and tidy the icons in your Mac menu bar.

Visit Ice4.6

  • Rating

    4.6 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Beginner

  • Works on

    macOS

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What is Ice?

Ice is a free, open-source menu bar manager for macOS. Hide the icons you rarely need, keep the rest in your own order, show hidden items in a separate bar under the menu bar, and style the bar with tints, borders and shadows, all without a paid upgrade.

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Pros: what Ice does well

  • A calmer, less cluttered menu bar
  • Hidden icons are one click away
  • Free and open source

Cons: where it falls short

  • macOS only
  • Occasional glitches after major macOS updates

Who Ice is for

Mac users whose menu bar is crowded with icons they rarely click.

Who can skip it

Anyone with only a few menu bar apps.

Ice alternatives

Not sold on Ice? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

All Digital Minimalism resources

Hidden Bar

Focus: declutter and mac utility. Shares menu bar and open source with Ice. Adds Offline. Rated 4.5 (Ice: 4.6).

Mac AppFreemacOS, Offline
4.5Visit

AeroSpace

Focus: tiling window manager, window management and keyboard shortcuts. Shares macos and open source with Ice. Rated 4.7 (Ice: 4.6).

Mac AppFreemacOS
4.7Visit

Stats

Focus: system monitor, menu bar app and mac utility. Shares open source and github with Ice. Adds Offline. Rated 4.7 (Ice: 4.6).

Mac AppFreemacOS, Offline
4.7Visit

Amethyst

Focus: window manager, tiling and mac utility. Shares open source and github with Ice. Adds Offline. Same 4.6 rating.

Mac AppFreemacOS, Offline
4.6Visit

Mole

Focus: mac cleaner, disk space and uninstaller. Shares open source and github with Ice. Adds Offline. Same 4.6 rating.

Mac AppFreemacOS, Offline
4.6Visit

uBlock Origin

Focus: ad blocker, content blocker and privacy. Shares open source and github with Ice. A browser extension, not a Mac app. Adds Firefox and Chrome. Rated 4.8 (Ice: 4.6).

Browser ExtensionFreeFirefox, Chrome
4.8Visit

Free alternatives to Ice

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Glance

Focus: dashboard, start page and rss. Shares open source and github with Ice. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Web. Rated 4.7 (Ice: 4.6).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.7Visit

Navidrome

Focus: music, streaming and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Ice. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Web, Windows and Linux. Rated 4.7 (Ice: 4.6).

Web AppFreeWeb, macOS
4.7Visit

Pi-hole

Focus: ad blocker, dns and privacy. Shares open source and github with Ice. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Linux and Web. Rated 4.7 (Ice: 4.6).

Web AppFreeLinux, Web
4.7Visit

Czkawka

Focus: duplicate finder, disk cleanup and similar images. Shares open source and github with Ice. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Windows, Linux and Offline. Same 4.6 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

Zellij

Focus: terminal multiplexer, developer tool and workspace. Shares open source and github with Ice. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Linux and Offline. Same 4.6 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.6Visit
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