CoffeeBar

Hide the menu bar icons you don't need. Get them back with one click.

A small, free, open-source menu bar manager for macOS. No screen recording permission, no subscription, no telemetry.

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Download the latest release → unzip → drag CoffeeBar into Applications.

Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. Updates itself.

Expand and collapse. Click < and the hidden icons slide into the menu bar; click any of them as usual. Click < again or anywhere else and they fold away. Nothing synthetic happens: no fake clicks, your pointer is never touched.
Panel with search (optional, ⌥-click < or turn it on as the default). Every hidden icon listed by app; type to filter, Enter to open.
Drag to hide. Hold ⌘ and drag an icon to the left of < to hide it, to the right to keep it. CoffeeBar remembers.
Arrange mode. Right-click < → Arrange Items… to see everything at once and drag icons around.
Icons stay put. After a restart, or when an app drops its icon somewhere random, it goes back where you put it.
New apps stay visible until you decide to hide them.
System icons are never hidden. Battery, Wi-Fi, Control Center, Spotlight and the input menu always stay.
Notch and narrow screens: turn on Reveal only the clicked item and just that one icon is brought into the menu bar instead of the whole section.
Notch aware. On a MacBook display with a notch the menu bar cannot show everything, so clicking the cup opens the panel there; on external displays it expands inline.
Only asks for Accessibility. Nothing else.