Free apps

Good apps don’t always come with a price tag. These menu bar gems are free — and worth your space.

QuickDown

This note taking app is as frills-free as it gets. It’s (intentionally) as barebones as one single global hotkey to start writing and saving a local markdown note.

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Collection: Cloud Apps

Free apps

Maestral

Maestral is an open-source Dropbox client that serves as a lightweight alternative to the official app. It comes with an optional command-line tool for power users.

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Collection: Developer Apps

Free apps | Open Source

Neat

Neat Desert

All your GitHub notifications in your menu bar, so you can streamline your code review and ship with ease.

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Collection: Display Apps

Free apps | Open Source

HideMyDock

By default you can only hide the dock for all virtual desktops (spaces). This menu bar app allows you to turn the dock off or on for certain virtual desktops.

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Collection: Display Apps

Free apps | Open Source

BetterDummy

The new Apple Silicon Macs notoriously don’t allow sub-4K resolution displays to have HiDPI (“Retina”) resolutions. This menu bar app tricks macOS into thinking you’ve plugged in a 5K monitor.

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