# Your menu bar, calmer.

The icons you don't need tuck away and come back the instant you ask. Small, native, free.

[Download](https://github.com/fif7y/pelmet/releases/latest)

```
brew install fif7y/tap/pelmet
```

[Star on GitHub](https://github.com/fif7y/pelmet)

macOS 27 or later

## The short version.

- Reach for the bar and everything comes back.
- Type a few letters and open any icon.
- Drag in the editor, then press Apply once.
- Or move icons right in the bar with ⌘.
- Give any app its own menu bar icon.
- Pick how icons come and go by watching them.

## Hidden isn't gone.

Move toward the bar and everything slides back out, exactly where it was. Click what you came for. It tucks itself away again.

## A place for every icon.

Every icon lives in one of three sections, and you choose which.

- **Visible**: Always there when you need them.
- **Hidden**: Out of the way, back with a hover or a click.
- **Always Hidden**: Gone for good, unless you double-click or ⌥-click the chevron.

## Arrange it once.

Drag icons between Visible, Hidden and Always Hidden. Nothing moves until you press Apply, then one pass lays the bar out to match.

## Or just ⌘-drag.

Hold ⌘ and drag any icon across the chevron, right in the bar. Pelmet adopts it into the section where you drop it.

## Launch anything.

Pick any app and Pelmet gives it a menu bar icon. One click opens it, and it tucks away with the rest.

## Call any icon by name.

New in Pelmet 0.3.1. Press ⌥⌘K from any app and type a few letters. Pelmet finds the icon, hidden or not, slides it out from under the chevron and opens it right where it lives. Press esc and it tucks back.

## Motion that feels native.

Watch each style play, then pick the one that suits you. Instant is a swap. Smooth slides the icons out from under the chevron. Fade brings them in place.

Choose your style in Settings › Behavior.

## Hidden, not moved.

macOS hides each icon right where it sits, so the bar you arranged is the bar you get back.

## Nothing to phone home about.

Pelmet is a small, native Mac app that minds its own business, which is your menu bar and nothing else.

No account, no analytics, no server. The only connection it ever makes is checking for its own updates.

**Pelmet Info**

Pelmet 4.5 MB[^1]. Modified: 5 October 2026

- **General**
  - Kind: Application
  - Size: 4.5 MB
  - Version: 0.3.1
  - Requires: macOS 27 or later
  - Languages: 10
- **Privacy**
  - Account: None
  - Analytics: None
  - Network: Update check only
  - Screen Recording: Optional (animations only)[^2]
- **Source**
  - License: GPLv3
  - Code: [github.com/fif7y/pelmet](https://github.com/fif7y/pelmet)

> **pelmet**
> noun · /ˈpɛlmɪt/ · British
> 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.**

## Fit yours today.

[Download](https://github.com/fif7y/pelmet/releases/latest)

```
brew install fif7y/tap/pelmet
```

[Star on GitHub](https://github.com/fif7y/pelmet)

Free and open source. macOS 27 or later.

Pelmet is free and open source under GPLv3.

[^1]: 4.5 MB is the download size of Pelmet 0.3.1.
[^2]: Screen Recording is optional and only used for reveal animations.