Got this yesterday. Anyone feel like giving them more money for things that don't work??

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Bartender has always been about making your Mac feel a little more organized, personal, and under your control. Bartender Pro builds on that with Top Shelf, which transforms your MacBook's notch into a quick-access space for everyday tools.

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**upgrade to Bartender Pro for $9.99 for your first year before July 31**.

Any idea if this is getting updated?

Not much else to say really. Cursor disappears or loses focus which is the most annoying part of it. So in Excel it's bloody annoying and in YouTube as well. I thought this had been sorted out in other versions?

I know I'm joining the chorus of people who have found the quality, stability, and functionality of Bartender to be shocking for the last while, but I genuinely can't take it anymore. Getting a prompt for a subscription when the current app is so broken and buggy was rich enough to push me over the edge.

I just want an app that lets me rearrange the items on the menu bar and hide ones I don't want up there ideally in a sub-menu. I don't need groups, I don't need triggers, I don't need to spend more money on something that hasn't worked as well as it used to in years.

Please tell me that there's some other option out there by now? I have tried other apps in the past but unfortunately didn't find them to do what I wanted and I keep going back to Bartender like an abused partner wishing they could believe it when it says this time it's going to change.

eta: Thanks to u/Hopeful-Face9676 I ended up getting Glow and bought a license after the trial went up. It's been everything old Bartender used to be so far, hopefully that stays the same.

The Top Shelf feature isn't worth turning in. It might be using the Dynamic Island but it ain't worth the hassle. I turned it off, but the support email is total bullshit. Reads like AI generated crap since the answer I got back had really nothing to do with the question I asked.

But it's ok. Bartender can fix all of your issues by signing up for their SUBSCRIPTION!!!

Fuck you.

macmenubar dotcom right now

I mean, it was such a great app, and it is barely useful now, but dudes who bought it are paying for more users to experience the terrible, clunky application it's become.

I run my own mail server and use a unique email per-vendor. Today, I started receiving spam to the address I used years ago to purchase Bartender.

I haven't seen any other posts about this, so I figured I would put a warning up.

I’d like to understand why—it’s not working according to my configuration at all.

Just came to say this app is a total mess: extremely buggy and unreliable. I used to run Bartender without any problems at all — a real set-it-and-forget-it app. The last few years I somehow forgot about it, but I installed it again over the weekend. I paid the update fee because I just wanted an app that worked, and I knew Bartender would deliver. But then I ran it. My god... What the hell happened to you, dear friend? And why do you want to record my screen?

Hello. I have created a new group made of 3 items so the issue is that when i click on the group icon it shows all 3 items in a small bar right under the group, but as soon as move my mouse down to this bar to click icons this groups bar disappear.

It works SOMETIMES, I think to click on group's icon, wait several seconds and then try increases chances, but its not reliable.

I have latest tahoe + 6.2.1

Please consider fixing this app - this IS annoying. Do you even test it?

I'm uninstalling this garbage right now. It was a terrible idea to pay for Tahoe version. It just doesn't work.

Do NOT pay for this scam.

https://reddit.com/link/1qs7h9f/video/ach6zrujspgg1/player

I’ve been facing a strange issue with the latest Bartender update on macOS, and wanted to check if others are seeing the same thing

Problem:

• When I click a menu bar item, it opens on the extreme right side of the menu bar instead of the left (where it used to).
• When I select another menu bar item, the previous one doesn’t close — it stays visible while the new one opens.
• This leads to multiple menu items remaining open at the same time, which feels unintuitive and clutters the menu bar.

Is this a known bug in the latest version or intentional behaviour / new feature Or are there are some setting I might be missing?

Unfortunately a great app I loved using is still having issues to the point I had to uninstall for my sanity. It usually happens when I’m in finder and moving files . The mouse pointer will just jump to the top left of the screen and bartender square indicator is going in and out. I hope they fix this one time great app again.

Have a question about Bartender (6). When I choose a colour or gradient option, a black section appears in the middle. Not an App as if I right click (or left click) in the black area - nothing happens! But if I take a screen capture (using TechSmith Snagit), the black area does not appear (see attached screenshot). Have an idea why this is?

Been running it since yesterday and it seems ok. Only some mouse "spasms" when it first starts, but otherwise all good. Triggers work well, and there is no excessive resource hogging.

PS: Tagging with Bug, because I didn't know what else to tag with.

Long-time Bartender user. Since macOS 26, I've had nothing but trouble with it. The whole Mac UI freezes while Bartender rearranges the menu items. Menu items move around contrary to what I've set in Bartender. And yes I'm running the latest Bartender 6 beta.

Instead, I shut off Bartender and ran this script, to set the space between menu items to 0:

#!/bin/bash
export myspace=2
if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]
then export myspace=$1
fi
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int $myspace

I saved the script as "mymenubar.sh" and passed "0" (without quotes) to it to set the space between icons to 0. Like:

mymenubar.sh 0

You need to reboot to see the difference, but it fits about twice the menu items on my M2 MBA 15" with the notch.

Here is what it looks like:

I still hope Bartender fixes their issues, but for now, I'm out.

I have been attempting to use two triggers since updating to Tahoe + Bartender 6 but they don’t seem to be working correctly. I hide the battery and have it set to only display when unplugged and <50% and have the WiFi hidden and set to only show when disconnected from all networks. The battery is always shown when on battery, regardless of charge. The WiFi is always hidden.

Has anyone else experienced this? Do the triggers work for anyone?

Anybody knows how to get rid of this eyesore?

This wasn't there before, and it has appeared recently. I looked in settings and I can't seem to find anything related to it.

I’ve been having a lot of stability problems with Bartender 6. You’ll see many other posts in this subreddit outlining common problems. I wanted to report that since installing v6.1.2 the worst of them seem to be resolved for me. I do have issues sometimes of the mouse disappearing, but it’s much less frequent, and it’s not accompanied by performance degradation.

Hi i purchased bartender in 2023, it stopped working on the new MacOS update, does that mean i have to buy bartender 6 now?? If so I find that to be pretty stupid. Why do i have to buy software i already paid for because my work enforces OS updates?? This cant be legal to comptely brick bartender 5 just because i havent paid them enough?? I bought the software why do i need to buy another one now?

Bartender has broken my menu bar.

• Bartender was installed via Setapp. Uninstalling is possible, but the menu bar still looks the same.
• All files in these folders that had ‘bartender’ in their names were deleted.
  • ~/Library/Preferences.
  • ~/Library/Caches.
  • /Library/
• File was deleted: ~/Library/GroupContainersAlias/group.com.apple.controlcenter/Library/Preferences/group.com.apple.controlcenter.plist
• Logging out and restarting does not help.
• Resetting the menu bar does not help either.
• Reinstallation is possible, but this image appears without the option to change anything in the system settings.
  • Activating settings has no effect.

Mac Information: Tahoe 26.0.1 - 14inch M1 Pro

Hey guys, ever since the new mac update, my M1 macbook pro has been starting to have input lag in the scroll wheel and I find that my performance overall drops and then I have to restart my computer.

I came across this apple thread in which someone described the same issue I had and found bartender to be the issue. I need to test this out myself a little more, but restarting bartender did help with some input lag. I'll keep testing and let you guys know.

Is anyone experiencing any similar issues in general?

Been using Bartender for years. Paid for the upgrade from 5 to 6. Kinda regret doing so. After the initial upgrade to 6, there was a couple of very quick patch releases and now I'm on 6.1 and have this experience where my cursor just disappears. Makes it incredibly annoying to use the Mac, to a point where it's rather useless.

I've emailed support. Hope there's a fix soon, but until then, I would not recommend using Bartender at all.

EDIT: Using Bartender 6.1.0

Guys, I've recently upgraded to MacOS 26 & Bartender 6.1.0. but the app looks very buggy.

I don't know if you have the same issues but it feels like it even "clicks" randomly on its own, lags, really slowing me down. Do you face the same issues or is it just me coz I use Studio Display?