README.md

June 19, 2026 · View on GitHub

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Thaw is a powerful menu bar management tool for macOS 26. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
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Note

Thaw is a fork of Ice by Jordan Baird. As the original project appears to be inactive, Thaw aims to keep the project alive fixing bugs, ensuring compatibility with the latest macOS releases, and eventually implementing the remaining roadmap features.

Install

Manual Installation

Download the Thaw_<version>.zip file from the latest release and move the unzipped app into your Applications folder.

Homebrew

Install the latest stable release:

brew install thaw

To get the latest beta (or stable, whichever is newer):

brew install thaw@beta

Translations

Thaw is currently available in the following languages:

🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia
id translation		 🇨🇿 Čeština
cs translation		 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Deutsch
de translation		 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English
en translation		 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Español
es-ES translation
🇫🇷 Français
fr translation		 🇮🇹 Italiano
it translation		 🇯🇵 日本語
ja translation		 🇰🇷 한국어
ko translation		 🇭🇺 Magyar
hu translation
🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Nederlands
nl translation		 🇧🇷 Português (Brasil)
pt-BR translation		 🇷🇺 Русский
ru translation		 🇨🇳 简体中文
zh-CN translation		 🇹🇼 正體中文
zh-TW translation
🇹🇭 ภาษาไทย
th translation		 🇵🇱 Polski
pl translation		 🇹🇷 Türkçe
tr translation		 🇺🇦 Українська(*)
uk translation		 🇻🇳 Tiếng Việt(*)
vi translation

Note: languages marked with (*) are currently only available in the development branch.

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Features

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  • Hide menu bar items
  • "Always-hidden" menu bar section
  • Show hidden menu bar items when hovering over the menu bar
  • Show hidden menu bar items when an empty area in the menu bar is clicked
  • Show hidden menu bar items by scrolling or swiping in the menu bar
  • Automatically rehide menu bar items
  • Hide application menus when they overlap with shown menu bar items
  • Drag and drop interface to arrange individual menu bar items
  • Display hidden menu bar items in a separate bar (e.g. for MacBooks with the notch)
  • Search menu bar items
  • Menu bar item spacing
  • Profiles for menu bar layout
  • Menu bar tint (solid and gradient)
  • Menu bar shadow
  • Menu bar border
  • Custom menu bar shapes (rounded and/or split)
  • Remove background behind menu bar (macOS setting)
  • Different settings for light/dark mode

Hotkeys

  • Toggle individual menu bar sections
  • Show the search panel
  • Enable/disable the Thaw Bar
  • Show/hide section divider icons
  • Toggle application menus

Roadmap

Click to view the roadmap
  • macOS 27 support — compatibility with the next macOS release.
  • Menu bar item management — individual spacer items; menu bar item groups; show menu bar items when trigger conditions are met
  • Menu bar appearance — rounded screen corners
  • Hotkeys — enable/disable auto rehide; temporarily show individual menu bar items
  • Other — menu bar widgets

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Item layout
Item layout 		Show hidden menu bar items below the menu bar
Show hidden items below the menu bar
Drag-and-drop interface to arrange menu bar items
Drag-and-drop arrangement 		Customize the menu bar's appearance
Customize the appearance
Menu bar item search
Menu bar item search

Contributors

This project exists thanks to the awesome people who contribute code and documentation:

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License

Thaw is available under the GPL-3.0 license.