happy666End/MenuBarHider

Hide menu bar icons on macOS 27. Two separators, one click, no Screen Recording.

Productivity & self-hostedSwift#hidden-bar#macos#macos-27#menu-bar#menubar

4.1 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 21, 2026, 21:39 UTC.

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About the project

A macOS 27 utility that hides menu bar icons using two separators and the private MenuBarAgent API, without Screen Recording permission. It targets users whose Hidden Bar, Ice and similar managers stopped working after macOS 27 rewrote the menu bar.

Useful for

Hide rarely used menu bar icons while keeping selected ones always visible
Set icons to auto-hide after 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds or 1 minute
Build the app from source via make install with a Developer ID signature

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

110 stars so far today, about 121 expected by the end of the day.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 108 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #186.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 108
Today: 110 · ≈ 121 by evening
Forks: 0
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: Swift
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.1.0 · September 21, 2026
Created: September 18, 2026
Last push: September 21, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 21, 2026Top new repositories this week: #186

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