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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by hombre_fatal on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:17PM (#42882730)
Yeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover.

Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ to get these features.

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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by Kovah on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:10PM (#42883165)
I would be very careful with using Bartender now. It was a great app, but recently bought by a shady company known for buying apps to milk them for money and user data. I recommend Ice, as linked by Khaine, which is open source, free, and works like a charme.
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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by Khaine on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:35PM (#42882864)
You can also use Ice[1], which does the same thing and is open source

[1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by jedberg on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:01PM (#42883101)
Looks like the features are very similar. Is there anything the commercial product does that the open source doesn't?
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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by Khaine on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:16PM (#42883217)
I've used both, and I think Bartender was a little more polished, UI wise.
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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by Khaine on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:45PM (#42884770)
This was after I stopped using Bartender, but it got silently sold to a third party https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-o...
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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by DavideNL on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:49PM (#42902113)
Alternative: install it anyway, and block all connections with Little Snitch.

(note that Bartender is also part of SetApp...)

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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by imagetic on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:40PM (#42884512)
Ice is great. Took some fiddling but I have been stoked on it.
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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by ElijahLynn on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:19PM (#42882750)
Thanks, I'm totally gonna try that!
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