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Bartender 5 is required for macOS 14 (Sonoma) and also comes with big improvements in capability. You can now create Profiles for the different contexts in which you work, and you can set up automations with Triggers based on apps, battery, location, WiFi network, time, and even scripts.Allison demonstrates how all of this works, and also shows you how this version of Bartender lets you style your menu bars like never before.

The full tutorial covers:

  • General Settings [00:02:11]
  • Menu Bar Items [00:04:42]
  • Menu Bar Item Groups [00:06:03]
  • Styling Menu Bars [00:08:37]
  • Presets [00:11:58]
  • Triggers [00:15:09]
  • Trigger by App [00:16:19]
  • Trigger by Battery [00:17:56]
  • Trigger by Location [00:18:26]
  • Trigger by Time [00:19:21]
  • Trigger by Script [00:19:45]
  • Trigger by Wi-Fi [00:20:06]
  • Hotkeys [00:20:57]
  • Advanced [00:24:27]

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Video Tutorial Comments

(2 comments posted)

David Bennett

Do you still recommend Bartender - or prefer something else? (Just now after a hundred years of using laptops finding that the MB Air is running out of menu bar space).

Allison Sheridan

Hi David - I understand the consternation over the poorly communicated sale of Bartender to an app farm with questionable goals so this is a great question. I'm choosing to use Bartender for now, but there's a really good alternative called Ice. It's open source (free) and in very rapid development. It has most of the features people use in Bartender but lacks some of the more recent advanced features like presets. I wrote it up in this blog post here:

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2024/06/ice-bartender-replacement/

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