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

BeardedSpice

Beardedspice

BeardedSpice allows you to control web-based media players and some native apps (including iTunes, Spotify, VLC, Vox, and Downcast) with the media keys found on Mac keyboards. In other words: It wrests control of your media keys from iTunes and hands it back to you.

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Menu World Time

Menu-world-time

A little Mac app showing the local time of as many places as you’d like in your menu bar – or collapse them all into a drop-down menu. It shows a clock for each city right in the menu bar. Click the icon in the menu bar to quickly see city times.

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IP in menubar

Ipinmenubar

This small application runs in the background and shows your current IP address in the menu bar. If you are behind a router or gateway you can still see your local IP address in the menu.

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