The poorly communicated sale of Bartender has caused many people to seek alternatives to manage their menu bar apps. While Bartender is still being developed and works as well as it ever did, you might want to consider the open source donationware alternative called Ice for macOS Sonoma and above. That’s why I chose Ice for my latest ScreenCastsONLINE video tutorial. It’s a delightful app with polish you don’t normally associate with open source tools.
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