The icons you don't need tuck behind a chevron — and come back the instant you ask.
Move toward the bar and everything slides back out, exactly where it was. Click what you came for. It tucks itself away again.
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A layout editor built for the bar: three sections — Visible, Hidden, Always Hidden — and every icon exactly where you drag it. The bar follows, live.
Hold ⌘ and drag any icon across the chevron, right in the bar — macOS's own gesture. Pelmet adopts it into the section where you drop it.
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Pelmet is a small, native Mac app that minds its own business — which is your menu bar, and nothing else.
No Electron, no runtime. A real menu-bar citizen that starts at login and stays out of Activity Monitor's top ten.
No account, no analytics, no server. The only connection it ever makes is checking for its own updates.
The bar behaves per display — reveal on the screen your pointer is on, stay tucked everywhere else.
Signed, notarized, updated in place via Sparkle — or ride the Homebrew tap.
A narrow border of cloth or wood, fitted across the top of a window to conceal the curtain fittings. Now also: the same, for your menu bar.