Thaw is a powerful menu bar management tool for macOS. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.

  

macOS 27 (Golden Gate) status and preview builds

Note

Thaw is a fork of Ice by Jordan Baird. As the original project appears to be inactive, Thaw aims to keep the project alive fixing bugs, ensuring compatibility with the latest macOS releases, and eventually implementing the remaining roadmap features.

Install

Manual Installation

Download the Thaw_<version>.zip file from the latest release and move the unzipped app into your Applications folder.

Homebrew

Install the latest stable release:

brew install thaw

Install the latest beta (or stable, whichever is newer):

brew install thaw@beta

Integrations

• Raycast — toggle hidden sections and search the menu bar from the keyboard
• Droppy — install Thaw as a Droplet and keep it updated automatically

For thaw:// actions and settings automation, see URI schemes.

Having trouble after installing? Check Frequent Issues before opening a new report.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please open them against the development branch, follow the PR template, and read Contributing.

Looking for something to do? See Ways to contribute.

Translations are managed on Crowdin — translation PRs are not accepted in this repo.

Translations

Thaw is currently available in the following languages:

🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia	🇨🇿 Čeština	🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Deutsch	🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English	🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Español
🇫🇷 Français	🇮🇹 Italiano	🇯🇵 日本語	🇰🇷 한국어	🇭🇺 Magyar
🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Nederlands	🇧🇷 Português (Brasil)	🇷🇺 Русский	🇨🇳 简体中文	🇹🇼 正體中文
🇹🇭 ภาษาไทย	🇵🇱 Polski	🇹🇷 Türkçe	🇺🇦 Українська(*)	🇻🇳 Tiếng Việt(*)

Note: languages marked with (*) are currently only available in the development branch.

Help translate Thaw via Crowdin.

If a language you'd like to help translate is not listed here, let us know and we will add it on Crowdin.

Features

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Menu bar item management

• Hide menu bar items
• "Always-hidden" menu bar section
• Show hidden menu bar items when hovering over the menu bar
• Show hidden menu bar items when an empty area in the menu bar is clicked
• Show hidden menu bar items by scrolling or swiping in the menu bar
• Automatically rehide menu bar items
• Hide application menus when they overlap with shown menu bar items
• Drag and drop interface to arrange individual menu bar items
• Display hidden menu bar items in a separate bar (e.g. for MacBooks with the notch)
• Search menu bar items
• Menu bar item spacing
• Profiles for menu bar layout

Menu bar appearance

• Menu bar tint (solid and gradient)
• Menu bar shadow
• Menu bar border
• Custom menu bar shapes (rounded and/or split)
• Remove background behind menu bar (macOS setting)
• Different settings for light/dark mode

Hotkeys

• Toggle individual menu bar sections
• Show the search panel
• Enable/disable the Thaw Bar
• Show/hide section divider icons
• Toggle application menus

Roadmap

Click to view the roadmap

• Menu bar item management — individual spacer items; menu bar item groups; show menu bar items when trigger conditions are met
• Menu bar appearance — rounded screen corners
• Hotkeys — enable/disable auto rehide; temporarily show individual menu bar items
• Other — menu bar widgets

Gallery

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Item layout	Show hidden items below the menu bar
Drag-and-drop arrangement	Customize the appearance
Menu bar item search

Contributors

This project exists thanks to the awesome people who contribute code and documentation:

Project Stats

License

Thaw is available under the GPL-3.0 license.