ReBar

Tighten the spacing, recolour the bar, reorder the items. The macOS menu bar, your way.

Available nowGitHub Releases macOS
A themed menu bar, colour and all, with the window that made it
Twenty-four built-in themes and your own, previewed live
Item spacing and click padding, from macOS's 16 pt down to zero
Drag the bar into order, including apps that are not running
The same bar in a light theme
01 / 05A themed menu bar, colour and all, with the window that made it

Tighter Spacing

Shrink the gap between items from the system’s 16 pt all the way down to zero, with a live preview and four presets from Default to Packed.

Recolour the Bar

Solid colours, or two- and three-stop gradients, painted over the real bar as a click-through overlay. Clicks still land on the items underneath.

Two Colour Engines

Full Mirror repaints icons and text pixel-perfectly. Background Tint lays a translucent wash over the bar and needs no permission at all.

Light and Dark Themes

Keep separate light and dark themes that follow the system appearance. Eight built-in presets, unlimited custom ones.

Icons Your Way

Keep genuinely coloured icons as they are, mute them, or repaint them to match. Fade to black around the notch, or tint icons with each desktop’s wallpaper.

Drag to Reorder

A list of every menu bar item, third-party and movable system ones alike. Drag them into the order you want and apply.

Sees Inactive Apps

Items from installed-but-not-running apps are listed too, greyed out with a launch button. Clean Up removes stale entries left by uninstalled apps.

Safe by Default

The layout is backed up before every change. Settings export and import as JSON. Runs in the background with an optional icon and launch at login.

Privacy

No network access. Captured pixels never leave memory, let alone your Mac.

Full Mirror needs Screen Recording to read the bar it repaints; frames live in memory only and are never written to disk. Background Tint needs nothing. Automation is requested only by the Log Out button. Preferences and layout backups stay in your home folder.

Requirements

Platforms
macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later
Permissions
Screen Recording, for Full Mirror only
Network
None
Distribution
GitHub Releases · notarized .dmg

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