Thaw documentation

Thaw is a menu bar manager for macOS. It hides and shows menu bar items, adds search and hotkeys, keeps layout profiles, and restyles the menu bar.

Get started

Install Thaw, grant its permissions and hide your first item.

Which Thaw runs on your macOS, and which updates you get.

What each one is for, and which you can refuse.

What changed in each release.

Keyboard shortcuts, Shortcuts actions and Control Center controls.

Drive Thaw from Raycast, Alfred, Shortcuts or a shell script with thaw:// URLs.

Diagnostic switches that are not in Settings.

Fixes for the problems people hit most often.

Put the layout or settings back, or remove Thaw.

What Thaw 3 writes in your home folder, and what you can copy to another Mac.

Every network call, and how to switch it off.

Check that a download came from the Thaw team.

These pages are written in the Thaw repository, next to the code they describe. To change one, open a pull request there.