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Circular macOS launcher: gesture-open an orbit of apps, files, folders, and sites.
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An open-source menu bar manager for macOS 26 — hide, arrange, and search your menu bar items with a floating bar and full glass styling.
Thaw takes over your Mac's menu bar the way Bartender and Hidden Bar always have, but built natively for macOS 26's redesigned glass interface. Drag items into Hidden, Always Hidden, or a floating always-on-top bar, then bring them back with a click, a hotkey, or a search.
Why it makes the list
Menu bar management has always been a paid-app category — Bartender's licence alone runs into real money. Thaw covers the same ground for free and open source, and because it's built specifically around macOS 26's redesigned menu bar, it handles the new glass materials, spacing, and Control Center quirks that older menu bar tools weren't built for.
Standout features
- Hidden and Always Hidden sections, plus a floating Thaw Bar for pinned items
- Search across every hidden menu bar item instead of hunting through icons
- Drag-and-drop arranging of the whole menu bar, not just Thaw's own icons
- Customizable appearance — background, tint, glass, border, and shadow
- Works with Raycast for triggering Thaw actions from a command palette
- App zoom to resize Thaw's own UI from 75% to 200%
Pricing
Completely free and open source (GPL-3.0).
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