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Menu Bar Dock shows MacOS apps in the menu bar. With a click of the app icon, you can open the app straight from the menu bar.

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It is highly recommended that you enable automatically hide and show the dock in system preferences. Now you have freed up all that space at the bottom of the screen where the dock used to always be showing, and you can open apps by clicking their icon in the menu bar at the top!

Preferences example

Menu Bar Dock can work in two ways: running apps and regular apps. To get an experience most similar to the normal dock you're used to, just use regular apps. Do this by going to preferences (right click a menu bar item), add your desired apps to the 'Regular Apps' section, then set the max number of running apps to 0. However, we recommend you give the running apps feature a try, it can be very useful for switching quickly between recently used apps.

Reasons to use Menu Bar Dock ...

  • Save screen space - You don't need the normal dock to show at the bottom of your screen any more. Lots of valuable space saved! While automatically unhiding the dock to go to your app solves the problem of screen space, you must wait until it shows (if it even does show - often it doesn't due to lag), then look for the icon you want, then drag your mouse across the screen to click and open it. Who actually wants that?

  • Laggy computers - If your computer suffers from lag when your activity gets more heavy and starts causing problems with switching apps, this is the perfect app for you.

  • Save time and increase comfort - While the Command+Tab shortcut can switch between your open apps in order, it requires one hand always on the keyboard, and can be laggy and take a while to show - by then you could have unhide the dock and found the app you want to click on manually! Time-wasting!

Extra info

Access the preferences window by right clicking any app being displayed in the menu bar dock, and then selecting 'Menu Bar Dock Preferences' at the bottom.

If you hold command while dragging the icons to place them where you would like on the menu bar. It will reorder automatically once you change apps again.

For more info and tips, press the blue 'i' in the general section of the preferences window of the app.

Any feedback or queries can be submitted here

The number of downloads for this app can be found by running curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/EthanSK/Menu-Bar-Dock/releases | egrep '"name"|"updated_at"|"download_count"' in a terminal.

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menu-bar-dock's Issues

Feature request: Option to hide certain apps

Hi there,

What a great little tool. Thanks! I'm trying to use it to give apps that don't have them, a menu bar icon. Because of this I don't really want or need all open apps to be visible in the menu bar.

I use bartender and have played around with hiding the ones I don't want etc, which works to a point. However it also shows some unexpected behaviours, like replacing say 'Reeder' which I want available all the time, with say 'Safari', when I open it up for a search. Ideally I would like certain apps visible and stay consistently where I put them, and I want most others not to even show up. This use case probably isn't the intended use case, but what do you think of adding the option? Is it doable?

Cheers,

Miles

Empty Trash custom action

I see this as a way to get rid of the evil dock (Ok, not evil but I don't like it). If I could empty the trash (like once a month most of the time I use rm {blah}), then its one less dependancy I have on the dock.

[Inquiry] App still being maintained?

This is what I have been looking for!
Coming from Windows, I hate the Dock! It's like a 3rd-party app taking precious space on your monitor!

I hope this app is still being maintained.

Onyx's semi perma-hide Dock (Dock still shows on Launchpad and still toggle-able) + this app = perfect!
No need to use Stage Manager anymore!

Icon displaced

The icon is displaced when the menubar is set to auto-hide in system preferences.

Issue: Menu Bar Dock Creates Many "Blank" Icons with Bartender 4

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Context: I'm experimenting with layouts between this and bartender 4. Ideally I'd like to set an area to store the dock icons on the right either hidden in the bartender drawer or just on the menu bar.

Issue: After using menu bar dock for a while, I noticed that these "spacer" icons are appearing after closing apps. This happens both when I set bartender 4 to put all new icons on the menu-bar or in its hidden drawer.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Open menu-bar-dock
  • Open a bunch of applications (like MS office)
  • Close all of the applications
  • Open a few new applications
  • Observe that the new applications have oddly spaced icons.

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Right side of menu bar under left side (of menu bar)

Hi :). Since the new macbook pro has a really wide menu bar, all the icons on the right side can be moved to the second row on the left side. Then the dock on the right side would have more space and I think it would look cleaner (the left side would be a bit of a mess, but you could just hide a few icons under the '...' icon like the bartender for Mac).
If it is too much work or you do not like the idea, I will try to implement it someday (I don't even have my new mac yet :D) ... Unfortunately I do not have any experience with swift or this kind of apps yet.

Regards, Rafał

How to select a specific window?

(newbie on mac)

In the dock I can see open windows with a right click to select a specific one:
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In Menu Bar Dock I don't see that option. Is there any way to enable it?

App icon won't change to new one

First of all: I love Menu Bar Dock, thanks for making it!

The issue: I changed the icon of an app to a different one (the original was ugly), but Menu Bar Dock still shows the old one. Is there a cache somewhere I could clear or something like that?

Question: Using in conjunct with menu bar managers (bartender etc)

First off great app. Really suits my workflow 🙏

I just wanted to ask if there is a menubar manager for hiding other app menu icons that is suited using it? I have tried several (bartender, barbee, hidden bar) but get mixed results.

Are you aware of any that work well with it?

Dark mode in high Sierra

Hello, I am using High Sierra but the Menu-Bar background is gray, is there a possibility to change that?

Thank you,

Feature Request: Greyscale or Whiten Icons

Hey there,

Really cool app!

Would love to see an option for app icons to fit to the black and white theme a lot of menu bar icons have. I wonder if its easy to run the dock icons through a grey-scale filter and boost the contrast to that effect.

Feature Request: Notification Dot

Given how small the icons are on the menu bar dock compared with the normal macOS dock, it may be impractical to display notification counts on the menu bar icons.

A good solution may be to display at least a red dot on the upper right hand corner for each app to show that there is at least >1 notification.

Can we have a notification dot when there are notifications for the app?

Arrange The Options

When right-click on the app icons on the menu bar, the "quit the current app" option is currently listed as the first option. I suggest swapping "quit menu bar dock" and "quite the current app" because the majority of apps always have the "quit current app" at the end of the options list.

Thank you.

Invisible Divider/Icon

Any way to remove the invisible dividers between the music and duckstation icon below?
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another example (between Chrome and Word):
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just now (I'm on an online meeting with microphone):
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I can actually move it when I'm doing a cmd+clickdrag but no way to remove it.
No weird apps installed on my end.
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here are my settings:
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Feature Request: space only icons

Hi there !

Thanks for your app, I love it.

Would it be possible to only display apps which have a window on the current space/workspace ?

Space between icons

Hello! Thanks for this very nice app.
One thing I may have noticed is that the space between icons is not customizable. Actually I do not want to waste the precious menubar space just for blanks...

Feature request: Keep order and keep active app in menubar

Very cool app.

Would it be possible to keep the order (same as the dock maintains its order) - something as simple as alphabetical order would suffice (just to stop it juggling around while in use)?
In a similar way, could it also keep the current app in the menu, again to stop it juggling around while in use

(edit: I'd be open to a PR but I'm not a Swift dev)

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