Menu bar & system utilities
Small, sharp tools that live in the menu bar and fix one thing about macOS properly.
| Licence type | App | Price | Licence | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AlDente ProAppHouseKitchen | €23.99 | Lifetime tier | Recent Apple silicon MacBooks already cap charging at 80% in macOS, which may be all you need | |
 AmphetamineWilliam C. Gustafson | Free | Free | Mac App Store only — no direct download or licence file, and the source is closed | |
| AppCleanerFreeMacSoft | Free | Free | no build listed for macOS 27 yet — the newest release on the page stops at macOS 26 | |
 coconutBatterycoconut-flavour.com (Christoph Sinai) | €12.95 | This version | The cheaper Plus edition only gets 4.x updates — only the Lifetime Edition covers what comes next | |
 iStat MenusBjango | $11.99 | Paid upgrades | Weather is a separate subscription once the six months included with a licence run out | |
 LunarAlin Panaitiu | $23 | Perpetual | whether hardware brightness control works at all depends on your monitor, cable and dock | |
 MonitorControlMonitorControl contributors | Free | Open source | support is a GitHub issue tracker, and each new macOS release needs a matching build | |
 OnyXTitanium Software (Joël Barrière) | Free | Free | Each major macOS release needs its own build, and the current one is Apple silicon only | |
 SoundSourceRogue Amoeba | $49 | Paid upgrades | each major version is a separate purchase — the upgrade to SoundSource 6 costs $25 | |
 StatsSerhiy Mytrovtsiy (exelban) | Free | Open source | Fan control is in legacy mode and, in the README's words, receives no updates or fixes | |
 TG ProTunabelly Software | $10 | This version | the $10 is a 50%-off promotion on a $20 list price, and no upgrade policy is stated | |
 TinkerToolMarcel Bresink Software-Systeme | Free | Free | Only surfaces preferences Apple already ships; the system-level tools are in paid TinkerTool System |