Good apps don’t always come with a price tag. These menu bar gems are free — and worth your space.
Good apps don’t always come with a price tag. These menu bar gems are free — and worth your space.
MyTesla shows your Tesla’s battery, location and climate in the menu bar, and lets you send commands like locking, charging and climate control from your Mac. It runs as an xbar plugin and needs your own Tesla developer account; newer cars need extra setup before commands work.
MeetingBar shows your next meeting in the menu bar and gets you into the call with one click, whether it’s on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or one of more than 50 other services. It works with all your calendars, and it’s free and open source.
Real-time satellite imagery on your desktop. Every 20 minutes (or every hour, you pick), Downlink updates your desktop background with a fresh image of Earth. You can even create your own views.
Plash lets you set any website as your Mac wallpaper. Just click the menu bar icon and paste in the URL you want to use.
Record input audio directly from your menu bar. You can also trim the recording when done and sync them to iCloud.
Follow up and manage the status of your Pi-hole(s). Comes in handy when you’re annoyed by having to open up the web interface every time you want to disable pihole.
