Ice

menu bar manager for macOS. hides icons you don't need to see constantly, shows them on hover or click.

replaces Bartender (which got acquired and sketchy). free and open source.

why it matters: without Ice, the menu bar becomes a junkyard of icons fighting for space. Ice keeps it clean — only the essentials visible, everything else tucked away. it's what makes Stats, Bleed, f.lux, Amphetamine, Time Machine, Backtrack, and CleanShot X viable as a set — without a manager, that many icons is chaos.

install: brew install --cask jordanbaird-ice (may also appear as just ice)