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

Amphetamine

Amphetamine

With Amphetamine, you can effortlessly override your energy saving settings and keep your Mac awake. You just have to tap on a single icon on your macOS Menu Ba. Once activated, your system will stop going to sleep. You can also set it up so that Amphetamine only kicks on when it notices that a particular app is running.

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Rocket

Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts. A simple and effective app that gets the job done. It lets you quickly enter emoji by typing rather than scrolling through a list.

You can also access any emoji through Rocket’s built-in shortcut window.

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Vanilla

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Vanilla is a free Mac app that lets you hide menu-bar icons.

Perfect your menu bar by completely hiding icons or hide any app icon from your Mac’s menu bar.

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SpotMenu

spotmenu

SpotMenu is a Spotify style menu bar app that displays the artist/album in the menu bar. The app comes in handy when you hear a song and wonder “Who is the artist/album?” Then you can click the Menu Bar icon to interact with what’s playing.

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