The open source menu bar manager for macOS.

1. 01

   Hide what you don’t need

   Keep the items you look at in view and tuck the rest into a hidden section. Bring them back with a click, by hovering, by scrolling or with a shortcut.

2. 02

   Made for the notch

   A notch covers part of the menu bar on a MacBook. The Thaw Bar shows the items it would hide in a bar of their own, just below.

3. 03

   Search from the keyboard

   Find any menu bar item, hidden ones included, and open it. Recent items come first, and a shortcut opens an item by its letter.

4. 04

   Groups and folders

   Group items so they move and hide as one, even across sections. Show a group as a folder with its own icon and colour.

5. 05

   Profiles

   Save a whole setup and switch in one step, or bind it to a display, a Space or a Focus. Thaw shows what a profile would change before you apply it.

6. 06

   Zen mode

   One shortcut hides every section and locks the ways to reveal them, then puts it all back. It can switch on by itself while you present or share your screen.

7. 07

   Style the bar

   Give the bar a shape, glass, a border, a shadow or a tint taken from your wallpaper. You can round the screen corners too, and keep a different look per Space or for light and dark.

8. 08

   Scriptable

   Drive Thaw with thaw:// links from a launcher, a shortcut or a script.

9. 09

   A privacy pane

   See what Thaw reads from your screen and every network call it makes, and switch them off.

10. 10

    Layout editor

    Arrange every item in one window, with the keyboard if you like. Rest on a tile and the item lights up in the real bar.

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• RaycastBy its extension
• DroppyAs a Droplet
• FloeWith no setup
• ShortcutsWith its own actions
• SiriBy voice
• thaw:// linksFrom any app or script

Some of these features are only in Thaw 3. See which Thaw your Mac gets.

Privacy only works if the security around it does.

Thaw asks for permissions that reach across your Mac, so we look at the whole release process and not only at what the app does. Of the 12,771 projects on OpenSSF’s Best Practices list, 107 hold Gold and 78 meet every Baseline control at Level 3. Thaw, a free menu bar app, is one of them.

• SLSA buildLevel 3Every release has a signed record of how it was built.
• OpenSSF Best PracticesGoldHow the project is run. The highest of three badges.
• OpenSSF BaselineLevel 3Security controls every project should have. Met at the top level.
• OpenSSF Scorecard9.1 / 10An automated score of the repository, run weekly.
• Test coverage92.3%The share of Thaw’s code its tests run.

Read from OpenSSF and SonarQube Cloud on 10 October 2026. The SLSA level is the one Thaw’s release pipeline is built to.

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