Buy once instead of Bartender Pro
- Bartender Pro costs
- $20a year. The developer's own yearly tier, which adds the Pro suite and Top Shelf. Their pricing
- Ways out
- 2apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $25Bartender, which pays back in 15 months
- Cost nothing
- 1freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
 IceFree GPL menu bar manager, the open alternative to Bartender | FreeOpen source | The repo has not been pushed to in a year and some README features are still unimplemented |
 BartenderMenu bar icons hidden behind a chevron, sold as a licence or a subscription | $25Paid upgrades | $24.99 buys Bartender 7 only; version 8 is a paid upgrade and Pro features are yearly |