Productivity guides, tool comparisons, and behind-the-scenes notes from the team building Lounge.
Your Mac menu bar filling up with icons? Here are five ways to clear it — from native ⌘-drag tricks to a one-permission menu bar manager — with a quick answer up top.
Ice, Bartender, Thaw, and Barbee all ask to record your screen. I tested them on macOS 27 Golden Gate — here's why that permission is optional, and how Lounge skips it.
We tested the top macOS menu bar managers — Lounge, Bartender, Ice, Hidden Bar, Thaw, and Barbee — on macOS 27. Here's the ranked roundup, a full feature table, and how to pick.
A practical system for organizing your Mac menu bar — group icons by how often you use them, hide the overflow, and set one shortcut to reveal it all. Includes a quick answer and FAQ.
Lounge is a notch-aware menu bar manager for macOS that hides and reveals status items using a length-toggle mechanism. Here's how it works.
Tips, comparisons, and behind-the-scenes notes on building a notch-aware menu bar manager for macOS.
Ice is a powerful, free, open-source menu bar manager. Lounge is a paid, notch-first app with a clipboard history. Here's an honest side-by-side.
Hidden Bar is a free, ultra-light on/off toggle for menu bar icons. Lounge is a fuller, notch-aware manager. Here's an honest comparison of the two.
Bartender is the established, deeply configurable menu bar manager. Lounge is the modern, notch-first, $3.99/year alternative. Here's an honest, feature-by-feature comparison.
A practical, step-by-step guide to organizing and clearing your menu bar on Mac — hide icons you rarely use and keep the ones you need one shortcut away.
From download to your first hidden icon in under five minutes — a walkthrough of installing and configuring Lounge on macOS.