Menu bar & system utilities
Small, sharp tools that live in the menu bar and fix one thing about macOS properly.
Category: Utilities
- Design, graphics & illustration15
- Developer & terminal tools15
- Documents, PDF & office13
- Email, calendar & tasks15
- Files, disk & backup14
- Launchers, clipboard & automation12
- Menu bar & system utilities12
- Privacy, security & networking13
- Screenshots, recording & annotation15
- Video, audio & media14
- Window management & desktop control14
- Writing, notes & markdown14
Licence
- PerpetualUpdates included, forever35
- This versionThe next major is a new purchase47
- Paid upgradesMajor versions cost again25
- Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app14
- FreewareNothing to buy9
- Open sourceNothing to buy; source published36
Each mark reads left to right: this major version, the next, the one after. Filled is included, half is a paid upgrade, hollow is bought again.
Price
11 apps priced in £ or € sit outside these bands, because we don’t convert currencies.
 AlDente ProAppHouseKitchen | €23.99Lifetime tier | Recent Apple silicon MacBooks already cap charging at 80% in macOS, which may be all you need |
 AmphetamineWilliam C. Gustafson | FreeFreeware | Mac App Store only — no direct download or licence file, and the source is closed |
| AAppCleanerFreeMacSoft | FreeFreeware | No build listed for macOS 27 yet — the newest release on the page stops at macOS 26 |
 coconutBatterycoconut-flavour.com (Christoph Sinai) | €12.95This version | The cheaper Plus edition only gets 4.x updates — only the Lifetime Edition covers what comes next |
 iStat MenusBjango | $11.99Paid upgrades | Weather is a separate subscription once the six months included with a licence run out |
 LunarAlin Panaitiu | $23Perpetual | Whether hardware brightness control works at all depends on your monitor, cable and dock |
 MonitorControlMonitorControl contributors | FreeOpen source | Support is a GitHub issue tracker, and each new macOS release needs a matching build |
 OnyXTitanium Software (Joël Barrière) | FreeFreeware | Each major macOS release needs its own build, and the current one is Apple silicon only |
 SoundSourceRogue Amoeba | $49Paid upgrades | Each major version is a separate purchase — the upgrade to SoundSource 6 costs $25 |
 StatsSerhiy Mytrovtsiy (exelban) | FreeOpen source | Fan control is in legacy mode and, in the README's words, receives no updates or fixes |
 TG ProTunabelly Software | $10This version | The $10 is a 50%-off promotion on a $20 list price, and no upgrade policy is stated |
 TinkerToolMarcel Bresink Software-Systeme | FreeFreeware | Only surfaces preferences Apple already ships; the system-level tools are in paid TinkerTool System |