Best Mac Utilities & Menu Bar Apps
Tidy your menu bar, arrange windows, manage files, and see what is taking up disk space. Browse 40 Mac utilities, including Bartender, Tangrid, DaisyDisk, and Keka. Find small tools for everyday macOS tasks, with features and pricing to compare.
Utilities · $4.99 · one-time (14 day refund policy)
A native macOS command ring for launching apps, folders, links, shortcuts, window actions, screenshots and more with a quick flick.
Utilities · $22.99 · one-time (Lifetime license for 1 Mac; 7-day free trial.)
macOS window manager with automatic tiling, window search, and saved layouts
Utilities · $9.99/mo (US $9.99/month or $99.99/year. Free one-hour trial; Family Sharing on annual only.)
Detect slouching with your Mac’s camera and receive personalized posture reminders while you work.
Utilities · Free · per month, Mac App Store. Scanning stays free $4.99
Your whole disk as one treemap. The biggest folder is the biggest box, and node_modules, DerivedData and caches are found and totalled.
Utilities · Free · 14-day free trial; Pro $5 for first 200, then $9.99 once $5
See what's filling your Mac, then clear it safely to the Trash.
Utilities · Free & open source
A tiny, fully native macOS launcher — fuzzy app search, clipboard history, an inline calculator, snippets, and window management, with no Electron and no telemetry.
Utilities · $14.99 · one-time (One-time purchase, 14-day refund)
Puts your windows back where they were when your monitors come back. Learns each display setup on its own.
Utilities · $4.99 · one-time
Draws real-material borders around your Mac windows: walnut, marble, brushed aluminum, leather and more.
Utilities · Free · Free app + optional one-time packs (no subscription).
Free native macOS app to browse, install, and switch custom cursor sets in one click.
Utilities · Free
Native SwiftUI Mac cleaner: forensic uninstall, disk analyzer, Xcode/Docker reclaim — free, zero telemetry, Apple Silicon.
Utilities · $4.99 · one-time (One license, up to 3 Macs)
Stickers for your Mac desktop that peel like real vinyl. Turn any image into a die-cut sticker, with the background removed on your Mac.
Utilities · $11.99 · one-time (One-time purchase. No subscription.)
DynamicHorizon brings the Dynamic Island experience to macOS by turning the Mac notch into an interactive part of the system.
Utilities · $19 · one-time (2 Macs; free CLI available)
Clean, uninstall, optimize, and monitor your Mac from one lightweight native app — a visual dashboard, a disk treemap, and a live menu-bar HUD, all on-device.
Utilities · $22 · one-time
Take control of a crowded menu bar — hide items you rarely need, reveal them on a trigger, and style the whole bar to taste.
Utilities · Free · Flexibits Premium subscription
Contacts, finally made useful — a search-first address book where you type what you want to do and it happens.
Utilities · $18 · one-time
A better menu-bar clock — tap the date for a mini calendar with your events and world clocks, and join the next call in one click.
Utilities · $9.99 · one-time
Find what is eating your disk with a scan that turns your drive into an interactive sunburst map you can drill into and clean up.
Utilities · $24.99 · one-time
Control external monitors from your Mac's menu bar — brightness, contrast, volume, and input switching over DDC/CI, with presets, schedules, and multi-display sync.
Utilities · Free
Keeps your Mac awake on your terms — precise triggers for time, running apps, network, battery, or an attached display, all from the menu bar.
Utilities · Free · $6.49 on the App Store
The macOS archiver that handles everything — 7z, Zip, and Tar to create, RAR and a dozen others to extract, with real AES-256 encryption.
Utilities · $4.99 · one-time
Adds satisfying mechanical-keyboard sound feedback to your Mac's typing — pick a switch profile, tune the volume, and every keystroke gets a tactile click.
Utilities · Free
A menu-bar clock that shows the local time of the specific people you work with — teammates, clients, family — each with a name and a face.
Utilities · $9.99 · one-time
Drag a box over anything on screen — an image, a PDF, a video frame, an app that blocks copying — and the text inside it lands on your clipboard.
Utilities · Free & open source
A native C++ command palette — app launcher, clipboard history, calculator, emoji picker, and window management — that runs Raycast extensions without Electron.
Utilities · Free & open source
An open-source Mac cleaner that finds app caches, dev-tool junk, and space-hogging large files, labels each one Safe to Clean or Check First, and moves everything to the Trash instead of deleting it outright.
Utilities · Free · Pro unlock $44.99
A native macOS font manager — tag, preview, and activate fonts with nested tags, Google/Adobe Fonts sync, and a built-in duplicate remover.
Utilities · Free & open source
A native, from-scratch Swift code editor for macOS that's still being built in the open — lightweight, fast, and unapologetically Mac-native.
Utilities · Free & open source
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.
Utilities · Free & open source
An open-source colour picker for macOS — pick any on-screen colour in Hex, RGB, HSB, HSL, LAB, or OKLCH, with full keyboard control.
Utilities · Free & open source
A polished Dock replacement for macOS — configurable layout, live window previews, widgets, and a fullscreen Launchpad, entirely native.
Utilities · Free & open source
A free, open-source collection of native macOS menu bar tools — unified under one searchable command palette.
Utilities · Free & open source
The battery indicator Apple forgot to ship, with hours-and-minutes precision.
Utilities · Free & open source
Brings iPhone-style Continuity features — clipboard sync, notification mirroring, file transfer — to Android and Mac.
Utilities · Free & open source
A native menu bar app for tracking and planning across timezones.
Utilities · Free & open source
A beautiful native download manager for direct links, magnet links, and torrents.
Utilities · Free & open source
A native GUI for browsing, installing, and managing Homebrew Casks.
Utilities · $15.99 · one-time (First 50 customers: $5.99 with LAUNCH50, while available. One person, 2 Macs; 1.x updates. No trial.)
Liquid Glass and smart clipboard tools in your MacBook notch, with music, files, timers and reminders.
Utilities · Free · Free plan; Pro $15/mo or $144/yr; Lifetime $199 $15
An on-screen keyboard for Mac for people who type with a mouse, head pointer, eye tracker or switch.
Utilities · Free
Hide and organize Mac menu bar icons while keeping hidden items easy to access.
Utilities · $29 · one-time
Convert and compress images, video, audio and PDFs on your Mac. Fully offline, batch-ready, nothing uploaded.
Reverse Mouse Scrolling on Mac Without Changing Your Trackpad
Keep natural scrolling on your trackpad and reverse only your mouse. Set up Scroll Reverser, check permissions, and troubleshoot gestures and conflicts.
How to Open RAR and 7z Files on Mac for Free
Open RAR and 7z files with Keka on Mac, troubleshoot split archives, and create a password-protected archive your recipient can actually open.
Mac Menu Bar Icons Hidden Behind the Notch? Get Them Back
Reveal Mac menu bar icons hidden behind the notch. Try a quick space-saving fix, then use Ice Bar or Bartender for persistent overflow.